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This performance of The Winter’s Tale by AMERINDA, a Native American cast and crew, uses Shakespeare's play to explore contemporary themes like environmental destruction, political climates of division, and questions of the laws of nations.
Read More“Witches and ghosts, madness and murder, swordfights, soliloquies, and two of the most compelling characters ever created…
Part myth and part morality play, a profound examination of the psychology of guilt and the forces that influence human action, this great supernatural thriller makes the perfect finale to the Halloween season!” –from the company website
Read More“Founded in 1989, Hampshire Shakespeare Company is a community of artists dedicated to presenting the works of Shakespeare and promoting theatre in general. Every summer our Shakespeare Under the Stars series offers performances by both our Mainstage company of adults and our Young Company of school-age actors, all at the UMass Center for Renaissance Studies in Amherst.”
Read More“Our flagship show for this coming season will be Twelfth Night. A show that is about adventure, and sailing ships and the crazy things people do for love. That sounds a lot like Perchance, its theatre and the artists who want to work there.
A beautiful, yet much more serious exploration of the season’s theme will be Romeo & Juliet. This show delves into the darker side of love and the lengths we will go for it. There are lessons to be learned about single-minded pursuit and rigid stances that we can all take away from here.” –from the Perchance Artistic Director Danielle Irvine, in the 2016 programme
Read More“Join us every Saturday at 2pm as the MaineStage ShakeSTARS take on the Bard’s final play. Years ago, the sorcerer Prospero was exiled by his evil brother to a desert island, accompanied only by his magic library and his infant daughter, Miranda. Now, Prospero has his chance at revenge: he conjures a magical storm to shipwreck his enemies. He’s got them right where he wants them: surrounded by illusions and hounded by spirits, ready to be taught a lesson. But he has some lessons to learn of his own. A touching fairy tale about learning to let go of the past and embrace the future, The Tempest will delight viewers of all ages. Performed in five installments, with a different cast of ShakeSTARS each week.”
Read More“The Winter’s Tale explores the unsteady, unsettling, poisonous realm of jealousy and distrust as a childhood friendship is irrevocably torn apart by a grievous misunderstanding.
King Leontes of Sicilia accuses his pregnant wife, Hermione, of infidelity with best friend and fellow King of neighboring Bohemia, Polixenes. His rage and misguided tyranny results in the plot to have the King of Bohemia killed, banish the newborn baby girl, imprison his innocent wife, and turn his stunned staff and nation against him. Directed by Artistic Director of AASC, L. Peter Callender, this study of love, jealousy, tyranny and ultimate forgiveness will bring all the complicated plot twists, memorable characters and one of Shakespeare’s most magical and romantic and unforgettable endings to life.” –blurb from the African American Shakespeare Company’s website
Read More“Join the Folger Shakespeare Library in celebrating Shakespeare and his extraordinary legacy on the 400th anniversary of his death. To commemorate the day of Shakespeare’s birth, and death, April 23, the Folger hosted an international live streaming event from the historic Paster Reading Room in Washington, DC. A diverse array of actors, community leaders, artists, and scholars shared their connections to Shakespeare through compelling performances and personal stories.”
The talks at this event present a number of viewpoints on Shakespeare's work and influence, showing that Shakespeare's reach extends far beyond his time and location, to a number of contexts and applications worldwide. Viewers of the event are encouraged to submit their own stories via video, using the hashtag #myshx400.
Read Morehis performance is part of the 2016 Shakespeare 400 celebrations in Ottawa.
“Four centuries after Shakespeare’s death, his plays are well known but little detail remains of his home life in Stratford. Vern Thiessen imagines this world, bringing us history in a modern idiom. Meet Shakespeare’s wife, Anne Hathaway - a woman to remember.”
A youth performance of Twelfth Night for the Shakespeare 400 festivities in Ottawa.
“Featuring a shipwreck, practical jokes, mistaken identities, a rascally jester, an uproarious sword fight, and lots of music, Twelfth Night has long been one of Shakespeare’s most popular comedies. Like all Company of Adventurers productions, this year’s show is ideal family entertainment, a great way of introducing kids to Shakespeare.”
Read More“What was the music lesson like during the Elizabethan period? The Piano Pedagogy Research Laboratory will feature video clips and live performances on reproductions of early keyboard instruments.”
Musical Performance by Dr. Elaine Keillor.
Part of Ottawa's Shakespeare 400 "Lunchtime Shakespeare" series, which is a set of talks given by professors from different departments at the University of Ottawa about how Shakespeare intersects with their own fields in interesting ways.
“A multilingual reading of Hamlet– the most frequently performed and translated play in the world — by the students, faculty, alumni, and supporters of the University of Ottawa.”
Read MoreThis event is a concert of new music inspired by William Shakespeare and created by students at the University of Ottawa.
Read More"Concord of Sweet Sounds"
Huguette Labelle Hall, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
March 11, 2016
Information about this musical performance can be found below, in the program pages.
“The greatest theatre in history is about to pop up in Auckland. Enjoy an incredible festival of Shakespeare in the world’s first full-scale, temporary working replica of the second Globe Theatre.”--From the Pop-Up Globe program
Read More“Shakespeare represents the Danish royal court as a corrupt political system which becomes a paranoid maze for Hamlet. Murder, betrayal, manipulation and sexuality are the weapons used in the war to preserve power. Not able to take on and fight the cynical rules of the game at the court, Hamlet stagnates and turns his aggressions against himself. His gift of distinguishing pros and cons becomes an insurmountable hindrance in accomplishing his goals, and as the last person with scruples in a system without any, he is finally doomed. With its central paradox of the incapacitated protagonist, Hamlet remains today a valid analysis of the intellectual dilemma between complex thinking and political action. Shakespeare serves up over twenty characters, allowing a political biosphere to arise out of differing interests and intrigue. In Ostermeier’s production, just six actors will play all these characters, constantly changing roles. Hamlet’s progressive loss of touch with reality, his disorientation, the manipulation of reality and identity are mirrored in the acting style, which takes pretense and disguise as its basic principle.”—From Schaubühne’s website
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This research was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
