Hamlet

On Saturday, Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and Stanford Law professor Bernadette Meyler went head-to-head arguing the facts of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth in an interactive play and mock trial fusion performance at Berkeley’s local Freight and Salvage theater.

There is no dearth of ambition in Robert Eggers’ third feature, which forsakes arid Viking drudgery — the kind mired in the myriad folktales “The Northman” sources from — for orgiastic, chainmail-clad antics.

"To see this wave of craftsmanship just getting more and more impressive every single time," Pattinson said, "I was so overwhelmingly impressed.”

Dean Chemerinsky and professor Meyler will decide whether the Romeo and Juliet friar is guilty of criminal charges at the Freight and Salvage in Berkeley.

Theater of Others' attempt to diversify "The Comedy of Errors" fell flat, however, with a production that didn’t blend into its cultural setting and was full of other technical errors that distracted from the actual content.

From his tragedies to his romances, Billy Shakes was all about the drama. Since we could all use a little extra spice in our lives, we at the Clog invite you to take this quiz to find out which two Shakespeare plays you could most use in your life right now.

Every semester in The Daily Californian’s arts & entertainment department, we welcome a new batch of beat reporters. While they will spend the semester reporting on a multitude of different projects and exhibits specific to their expertise, they rarely have the opportunity to focus on their topics on a small scale.

It would be hard to come up with a stranger production of “Hamlet” than its original performance although the Actors Ensemble of Berkeley certainly tried.

It seems only fitting for Callender to take up the mantle of such an iconic yet challenging role at the African-American Shakespeare Company

The plot is multi-faceted to say the least (pirates makes a brief appearance), but the central conflict is Hamlet’s descent into paranoia.