Bard on the Beach
Djanet Sears’ Harlem Duet is a fresh look for Bard on the Beach
June 13, 2022By: Isabella Urbani, Staff Writer This year’s 33rd Bard on the Beach will include Canadian playwright Djanet Sears’ 1997 play Harlem Duet. The festival was initially created with a focus on Shakespeare but has since branched out. Sears’ dramatization of Othello, directed by Cherissa Richards, will be performed alongside productions of Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. According to the event description, Harlem Duet “explores the complicated relationship of a Black couple in three key periods in the American Black experience: 1860, before the US Emancipation Proclamation; 1928, during New York’s Harlem Renaissance; and in post-civil rights 1997.” This…
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You too will fall in love with Shakespeare at Bard on the Beach
September 3, 2019By: Gabrielle McLaren, Editor-in-Chief I have a specific “theater buddy” friend. We go to shows together all of the time, and both of us are literature nerds who like Shakespeare. This worked out nicely for the 2019 season of Bard…
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Bard’s Spaghetti Western The Taming of the Shrew is everything a retelling should be
July 10, 2019By: Gabrielle McLaren, Editor-in-Chief Oh, Bard on the Beach. How I love you. Setting a Shakespearean comedy to the absurd Spaghetti Western genre was a hilarious and brilliant artistic direction. I find that comedies are prone to age poorlBay since the…
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Vancouver Theatre this September
September 24, 2018By: Winona Young, Zoe Vedova, Gabrielle McClaren F*ck Tinder: A Love Story [caption id="attachment_106377" align="alignleft" width="300"] Photo courtesy of David Rodwin[/caption] F*ck Tinder is a one man show that centers around David Rodwin’s autobiographical foray into finding love on…
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Arts events to look forward to this summer
May 14, 2018By: Alex Bloom, Melissa Campos, Gabrielle McLaren, Natasha Tar, and Eva Zhu Welcome to summer, the time of slacking off and generally being lazy. This may be your plan, but if you are thinking of venturing outside of your house in…
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Stuff We Like
August 5, 2017By: Sera Akdogan Okja New on Netflix, Bong Joon-Ho's latest film Okja reveals the horror of the mass-meat industry in an eye-opening, artistic fashion. The film exposes corporate capitalism for what it really is and makes meat-eaters feel ashamed with…
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Much Ado About Italian cinematic charm at Bard on the Beach
July 10, 2017By: Tessa Perkins The glamour of a film set, the sophistication of Italy, and the timeless wit of one of Shakespeare’s best comedies — Bard on the Beach has a hit on their hands with Much Ado About Nothing. …
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Bard on the Beach presents a magical production of The Winter’s Tale
July 8, 2017By: Tessa Perkins Leontes, King of Sicilia, gets a dangerous idea in his head: that his wife, Hermione, is having an affair with his friend, Polixenes, King of Bohemia. This idea, and his fervent jealousy, is set in motion by…
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It wouldn’t be summer in Vancouver without Bard on the Beach
June 16, 2017By: Tessa Perkins There’s nothing quite like taking in a classic Shakespeare play while enjoying the beautiful scenery that is visible through the back of the Bard tent. The festival is a magical combination made of thrilling theatre, stunning location,…
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Bard on the Beach is about the experience, not the production
June 27, 2016With its 27th season in full swing, patrons new and old alike have been lining up in front of the wrought iron fences and white tents to see the players of Bard on the Beach. With two of Shakespeare's greatest…
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