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Deprived of pretty looks, but equipped with charm and slyness, Richard III wholeheartedly becomes the villainous freak that other people cast him as. The play is about being an outsider, a topic director Kjersti Horn has dealt with several times before. Richard III shows the outsider’s potential for destructive power.
Read MoreShakespeare’s Rose Queen takes Margaret’s story out of the plays she’s in (Henry VI parts 1-3 and Richard III), and creates an entirely new Shakespeare play that focuses on the history from Margaret’s point of view. Margaret is thrust into a male-dominated world of royal backstabbing and strategy only to become the most powerful person in England through her cunning and charm.
Read MorePushing the boundaries of Shakespearean performance, Brite Theater re-imagined Richard III as an intense and intimate one-woman show with the audience playing all other roles.
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This research was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
