As I ready myself for Saturday’s trip up to Santa Barbara to see the Globe Theatre’s touring production of Love’s Labor’s Lost at the Granada Theater, I’ve been doing a quick inventory of the plays I’ve seen…
Play | Year / Venue |
---|---|
The Comedy of Errors | ’90: Oregon Shakespeare Festival |
Titus Andronicus | |
The Taming of the Shrew | ’91: Oregon Shakespeare Festival |
Henry VI Part 1 | ’91: Oregon Shakespeare Festival |
Henry VI Part 2 | ’91/2: Oregon Shakespeare Festival |
Henry VI Part 3 | ’92: Oregon Shakespeare Festival |
Richard III | ’92: Ian McKellen Touring Production–UCLA ’93: Oregon Shakespeare Festival |
Love’s Labor’s Lost | ’09: Globe Touring Production–Granada Theater |
Two Gentlemen of Verona | |
A Midsummer Night’s Dream | ’90: Kenneth Branagh Touring Production–Mark Taper Forum ’93: Oregon Shakespeare Festival ’99: Ahmanson Theater (Peter Hall) |
Romeo and Juliet | ’01: Ahmanson Theater (Peter Hall) |
King John | |
The Merchant of Venice | ’91: Oregon Shakespeare Festival |
Richard II | ’92: Mark Taper Forum |
Henry IV Part 1 | |
Henry IV Part 2 | |
Henry V | ’89: Oregon Shakespeare Festival |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | ’90: Oregon Shakespeare Festival |
As You Like It | ’92: Oregon Shakespeare Festival ’04: Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival |
Much Ado About Nothing | |
Julius Caesar | ’90: Mark Taper Forum ’91: Oregon Shakespeare Festival |
Twelfth Night | ’03: Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival |
Hamlet | ’92: California Shakespeare Company |
Troilus and Cressida | |
All’s Well That Ends Well | ’92: Oregon Shakespeare Festival |
Measure For Measure | ’99: Ahmanson Theater (Peter Hall) |
Othello | ’92: Oregon Shakespeare Festival |
King Lear | ’85: Robert Wilson Production–UCLA ’90: Kenneth Branagh Touring Production–Mark Taper Forum ’91: PCPA |
Macbeth | ’09: Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival |
Antony and Cleopatra | ’93: Oregon Shakespeare Festival |
Timon of Athens | |
Pericles Prince of Tyre | |
Coriolanus | |
Cymbeline | |
A Winter’s Tale | ’90: Oregon Shakespeare Festival |
The Tempest | ’79: Mark Taper Forum (Anthony Hopkins) ’02: Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival |
Of all of these, the ’79 Tempest was the most magical, the McKellen Richard III the most mind-blowing, and ’90 Mark Taper Forum Caesar the most inventive. Here’s hoping Saturday is great…
What’s your greatest moment of live Shakespeare?