I had a chance to sit down with a newer podcast called Theatre Geeks and explain myself, my summer and why I think Shakespeare is still okay for community theatre. Whereas my last interview with RSC was more of an overview of the entire summer, I got a chance to discuss with Dave and Marcia […]
This summer of 40 plays in 40 days reminded me again of the wonderful people out there in the States who produce quality Shakespearean performances in a wide-variety of venues. Many of the performances had some type of announcement (or plea) regarding donations and how difficult it was to keep providing these quality performances in […]
What high school English teacher wouldn’t show the Reduced Shakespeare Company’s (RSC) Complete Works of Shakespeare–Abridged? And so I have (usually after hanging out with Hamlet for a couple of weeks) for my AP English Literature  and AP English Language classes. It is simply classic deconstruction of the Bard’s works and in the end, we […]
The summer experience of seeing all of Shakespeare’s plays is long over (since the end of August), now what? Not a bad question. I’m currently finishing the write-ups for the rest of the summer plays. I haven’t been posting those “stories” of the plays on the site here as my priority is to get them […]
As part of my documentation of my grant from the Lilly Endowment Foundation, I was invited to share my summer experience at a dinner last month with fellow grant recipients (we had a 3-minute limit…yikes!). Also, we are required to give an initial accounting of our summer experience and then next June, we are to […]
Yes, these are the two noble kinsmen (Colin and Evan) and we’ve just finished a reading of “Two Noble Kinsmen.” You might notice the Lego characters (used to keep characters straight) and Evan’s trumpet (there’s a few places where it says “Cornets.” and Evan liked to make our reading realistic. We had fun (really), though […]
This is an open-invite for any who are in the Goshen, Indiana area: come and read Henry VI with us! Bring your Riverside Shakespeare (that’s been sitting on your self since your undergrad years) and join us in the fun of reading Shakespeare aloud (you can take that however you want). We have a few […]
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Mobile post sent by vergil66 using Utterli. Replies.  mp3 Reading Richard II at the Shakespeare Aloud (sponsored by the Nashville Shakespeare Festival) at the Nashville Public Library (downtown).
The trip to Iowa City, Iowa–I knew–wouldn’t take that long (maybe 5 hours tops), but for some reason I just wasn’t having luck with getting a hotel through Priceline.com. I think my neighbor reflects the attitude that many people have in using a service such as Priceline.com (no, this is not a paid announcement…though the […]