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‘Action is eloquence’: (Re)thinking Shakespeare

What is Macbeth doing in Rumble in the Jungle: Rematch?

Benjamin Broadribb explores the unexpected presence of Shakespeare in a production that recreates a moment of sporting and cultural…

Dec 5, 2023

What is Macbeth doing in Rumble in the Jungle: Rematch?

Dec 5, 2023

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Review: Richard II (directed by Annie McKenzie for Quandary Collective)

Ben Broadribb reviews Quandary Collective’s brutal Richard II, set in a post-apocalyptic Britain dominated by violent masculinity.

May 2, 2022

Review: Richard II (directed by Annie McKenzie for Quandary Collective)

May 2, 2022

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‘I made my family disappear’: Echoes and inversions of King Lear in Home Alone

Ben Broadribb explores the Shakespearean echoes to be found in a cinematic Christmas favourite, Chris Columbus’s 1990 film Home Alone.

Dec 14, 2021

‘I made my family disappear’: Echoes and inversions of King Lear in Home Alone

Dec 14, 2021

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‘Tut, I have lost myself. I am not here.’: Rethinking Romeo in Ola Ince’s Romeo & Juliet

Ben Broadribb considers how Ola Ince’s 2021 Romeo & Juliet for Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre pushes against Romeo’s pop culture afterlives.

Sep 2, 2021

‘Tut, I have lost myself. I am not here.’: Rethinking Romeo in Ola Ince’s Romeo & Juliet

Sep 2, 2021

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Review: Rock Bottom (directed by Charlie Day for Fresh Life Theatre)

Ben Broadribb reviews Charlie Day’s one-person show, featuring a twenty-first-century adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream’s Nick…

Jul 8, 2021

Review: Rock Bottom (directed by Charlie Day for Fresh Life Theatre)

Jul 8, 2021

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Speaking with others’ tongues: Creation Theatre’s The Duchess of Malfi

Ben Broadribb explores the many twentieth century cultural influences on Creation Theatre’s The Duchess of Malfi, from Warhol to Tarantino.

Mar 30, 2021

Speaking with others’ tongues: Creation Theatre’s The Duchess of Malfi

Mar 30, 2021

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‘Capital crimes, chew’d, swallow’d and digested’: ITALive’s Kings of War

Ben Broadribb considers the resonance of ITALive’s stream of Ivo van Hove’s epic adaptation in the wake of the storming of the US Capitol.

Feb 2, 2021

‘Capital crimes, chew’d, swallow’d and digested’: ITALive’s Kings of War

Feb 2, 2021

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‘Peace! the charm’s wound up’: Subverting virtual theatre in Big Telly’s Macbeth and Hijinx…

Ben Broadribb explores how Zoë Seaton’s Macbeth and Ben Pettitt-Wade’s Metamorphosis each turned Zoom theatre conventions on their head.

Jan 2, 2021

‘Peace! the charm’s wound up’: Subverting virtual theatre in Big Telly’s Macbeth and Hijinx…

Jan 2, 2021

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Henry V Take 2: Cross-Stitch Theatre’s parodic, poignant love letter to Lockdown Shakespeare

Ben Broadribb explores Cross-Stitch Theatre’s parody of Henry V, considering how it fits with lockdown Shakespeare’s metamodern…

Nov 22, 2020

Henry V Take 2: Cross-Stitch Theatre’s parodic, poignant love letter to Lockdown Shakespeare

Nov 22, 2020

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‘If there is one, I shall make two in the company’: Creation Theatre’s The Merry Wives of WhatsApp…

Ben Broadribb explores Creation Theatre’s two lockdown two-handers from September 2020, considering how far lockdown Shakespeare has come.

Sep 28, 2020

‘If there is one, I shall make two in the company’: Creation Theatre’s The Merry Wives of WhatsApp…

Sep 28, 2020

Benjamin Broadribb

Benjamin Broadribb

PhD from The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. Shakespeare, moving image, adaptation, appropriation, twenty-first century culture, metamodernism.

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