Physical Theatre Shakespeare

Physical Theatre and Movement-Inflected Productions: Shakespeare Plays

Cheek by Jowl (London, Moscow, and internationally; founded 1981; dir. Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod)

Fight or Flight Theatre Company (New York; founded 2008; dir. John Behlmann, Eileen Little, Steven Cole Hughes)

  • 2010 – Richard II
  • 2011 – Henry V (with Burning Coal Theatre, Raleigh, NC)

Frantic Assembly (London; founded 1994; dir. Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett)

New American Theatre Company (Los Angeles; founded in 1982 as Circus Theatricals; dir. Jack Stehlin and Jeannine Wisnosky Stehlin)

  • 2010, 2011 – Titus Redux (dir. John Farmanesh-Bocca, with Not Man Apart)
  • 2016 – Tempest Redux (dir. John Farmanesh-Bocca)

Not Man Apart (Los Angeles; founded 2004; dir. John Farmanesh-Bocca)

  • 2008, 2009 – Pericles Redux
  • 2010, 2011 – Titus Redux (with New American Theatre Company)

SITI (New York; founded 1992; dir. Anne Bogart and Tadashi Suzuki)

Theatre Grottesco (Paris, founded 1983, and Santa Fe, NM, since 1996; dir. John Flax and Didier Maucort)

Zen Zen Zo (Brisbane, Australia; founded 1992; dir. Lynne Bradley and Simon Woods)

  • 1992 – Macbeth 
  • 1998, 2002 – Macbeth: As Told by the Weird Sisters
  • 2004 – Romeo and Juliet
  • 2009, 2019 – The Tempest

Physical Theatre and Movement-Inflected Productions: Plays by Shakespeare’s Contemporaries

Cheek by Jowl (London, Moscow, and internationally; founded 1981; dir. Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod)

Updated November 16, 2019.

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