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 […]