Shakespeare Is…. a 6-hour Public Radio series (airing in late 2011), plus a 10-hour TV show, and educational and online media.
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The Radio ProjectThrough the eyes of dozens of brilliant writers, directors, teachers and actors we will bring to public radio and the American people a contemporary story. more |
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The VisionFor us Shakespeare Is… Photo: Courtesy Shakespeare’s Globe |
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The InterviewsMore than 50 hours of interviews from Scholars, Theatre Professionals, Educators and Lovers of Shakespeare have been collected..more Photo: Courtesy Shakespeare’s Globe |
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On StageShakespeare Is features some of the best theatre companies in America, Canada and the United Kingdom…more Photo: Courtesy Oregon Shakespeare Festival |
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On DemandShakespeare Is video and audio…more |
Best Season Ever at OSF!
Anthony Heald as Shylock Photo: OSF
I recently returned from my second trip this season at Oregon Shakespeare Festival. This is the 75th anniversary season and the productions have never been better. I raved for months about the stellar Hamlet this spring. If you haven’t heard or seen the slideshow version of my NPR piece, check it out.
I finally got to go back and see Merchant of Venice, Ruined and Throne of Blood. None of those plays disappointed.
Merchant of Venice directed by Artistic Director Bill Rauch and starring Anthony Heald as Shylock is a magnificent indictment on the damage of prejudice.
Read More...Tina Packer’s wonderful production “Women of Will”
Director, Actor and Scholar Tina Packer, former Artistic Director of “Shakespeare and Company” in Lenox, MA has written and is performing a new production entitled “Women of Will”. Fabulous!
Tina Packer and Nigel Gore
The work looks at the way Shakespeare wrote his women characters, and how that writing evolved over his 20-year career as a writer.
It is all done with two actors only – Tina and a terrific scene partner named Nigel Gore. They perform scenes, then talk about them, and then move on to the next.
Her piece is fascinating and beautifully organized. Her main premise is that Shakespeare’s view of women evolved over the course of career, starting out writing ‘about’ women, and then, starting with Juliet, writing from ‘inside’ women’s point of view – with deeper understanding of that point of view and creating much deeper, 3 dimensional characters.
Read More...Shakespeare Is — June 3
The site is coming along. The project is coming along. It is all very exciting. We are sitting today in beautiful Portland, OR, and web master Clark Salisbury is training Steve, Dmae and Tali in the intricacies of the site. Dmae and Steve are planning to write regularly, or at least semi-regularly about the project, here in “What’s New”.
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