Radio Project Excerpts
Derrick Lee Weeden on the Actor’s Voice
In this audio clip, Veteran Actor Derrick Lee Weeden demonstrates how an actor uses his voice in order to perform Shakespeare’s text.
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Read More...Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival
Bard On The Beach, Vancouver, BC
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival (Vancouver, BC)
Celebrating its 21st Season in 2010, Bard on the Beach is one of Canada’s largest not-for-profit, professional Shakespeare Festivals. Presented in a magnificent setting on the waterfront in Vancouver’s Vanier Park, the Festival offers Shakespeare plays, related dramas, and several special events in two performance tents from June through September.
The 520-seat Mainstage tent offers two productions performed in repertory from early June through late September. The Mainstage tent is open-ended so that the actors perform against a spectacular backdrop of mountains, sea and sky – a highlight of the Bard experience. The Douglas Campbell Studio Stage tent seats 240 and runs from the end of June throughCelebrating its 21st Season in 2010, Bard on the Beach is one of Canada’s largest not-for-profit, professional Shakespeare Festivals. Presented in a magnificent setting on the waterfront in Vancouver’s Vanier Park, the Festival offers Shakespeare plays, related dramas, and several special events in two performance tents from June through September.September.
Read More...Royal Shakespeare Company
Stratford Upon Avon
Royal Shakespeare Company (Stratford-Upon-Avon, UK)
The Royal Shakespeare Company is one of the best known theatre companies in the world, operating under its present name since 1961. However the RSC’s roots stretch back to the building of the first permanent theatre in Stratford. In 1875, Charles Edward Flower, a Stratford brewer, launched an international campaign to build a theatre in the town of Shakespeare’s birth. His donation of the now famous two-acre site began a family tradition of generosity to the theatre which continues today. Almost 50 years of excellence were recognised in 1925 by the granting of a Royal Charter, but only a year later the theatre was destroyed by fire.
In 1960, Peter Hall formed the modern Royal Shakespeare Company and in 1961, the Memorial Theatre was renamed the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. The repertoire widened to take in modern work and classics other than Shakespeare. Despite the growth from Festival theatre to international status, the values of the RSC today have changed very little since 1905.
Read More...Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre (London)
Founded by the pioneering American actor and director Sam Wanamaker, Shakespeare’s Globe is a unique international resource dedicated to the exploration of Shakespeare’s work and the playhouse for which he wrote, through the connected means of performance and education.
Together, the Globe Theatre Company, Shakespeare’s Globe Exhibition and Globe Education seek to further the experience and international understanding of Shakespeare in performance.
Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival
Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival
Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival (NY)
The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival began in 1987 with a modest outdoor production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream performed under the stars in a meadow at Manitoga, industrial designer Russell Wright’s home in Garrison, New York, fifty miles north of Manhattan. 22 years later, the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival is a critically-acclaimed regional theater, attracting audiences from the tri-state area and beyond. In addition to its summer productions, the Festival sponsors year-round education programs, including Access-Shakespeare, a fully staged touring production;Shakespeare Students on Stage; and Free Will, an artists-in-residence program which teaches over 22,000 students annually from elementary school through college.
Read More...Oregon Shakespeare Festival
OSF Elizabethan Theatre
Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OR)
Founded in 1935, the Tony Award-winning Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) is among the oldest and largest professional non-profit theatres in the nation. Located in a picturesque part of rural Southern Oregon, every year OSF presents an eight-and-a-half-month season of eleven plays in two state-of-the-art theatres and an the Elizabethan outdoor theatre. OSF also features numerous ancillary activities, and undertakes an extensive theatre education program. Operating on a budget exceeding $26 million, OSF presents more than 780 performances annually with attendance of approximately 400,000. In 2010, OSF celebrates its 75th anniversary. Hear a five-minute feature story broadcast on NPR produced by Associate Producer Dmae Roberts.
Read More...Frank X
Frank X
Frank X is a wonderful actor from Philadelphia who has appeared across the country in a wide range of roles, many of them in Shakespeare. We caught up with him late one night after a riveting performance at the Seattle Rep production of “Twelfth Night”.
Here he talks with Steve Rowland and reflects on the layers of meaning, across time, in being African American and playing the role of Malvolio, a servant, not originally written to be an African American.
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Read More...John Hopkins
John Hopkins
John Hopkins is an accomplished actor who has performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company as well as on the screen in the U.K and America.
In this clip at an RSC workshop, he was called in at the last minute to recite the speech to an audience. This is an example of current acting styles, in which the lines are delivered in a natural way.
Surprisingly, this was Hopkins first time reciting the famous speech.
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Read More...James Shapiro
James Shapiro
Professor James Shapiro speaking to an audience at Columbia University shortly after the publication of his groundbreaking book:
“1599, One Year in the Life of Shakespeare“. In this excert, Shapiro talks briefly about life in London in the late 1590s. His newest book is “Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?”
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Read More...Ursula Meyer
Ursula Meyer
Actress Ursula Meyer has worked as an actor and a voice coach at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for numerous seasons. Here she deconstructs a beautiful passage from “As You Like It”.
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