Onstage beaumont5/12/2023 ![]() Follow us on Twitter to find out how our theater partners are celebrating Bill’s birthday bash. ĭon’t forget, you can do more than just see one of Shakespeare’s plays this month: you can also attend one of his many birthday parties! Sunday, April 23 marks the 453 rd anniversary of Shakespeare’s birthday, and theater companies around the world are celebrating with programs and events. Nottage’s play Sweat, which premiered at OSF in 2015 as part of the American Revolutions project, won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. This month at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, you can catch six plays, including Shakespeare in Love, Julius Caesar, Henry IV Part One, and Hannah and the Dread Gazebo.OSF is also celebrating Lynn Nottage’s second Pulitzer Prize, announced earlier this week. Rachel Kostma and Michael Gabriel Goodfriend in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s “Henry IV, Part 1.” Photo by Jenny Graham. By doing the play in opposition to Shakespeare’s original practices (all-male), you are able to view the story solely from a human standpoint.Īlbert Jones as Ira Aldridge and Amelia Pedlow as Halina Wozniak in Lolita Chakrabarti’s “Red Velvet,” directed by Stafford Arima. So when I looked at this play, I was intrigued by the idea of throwing all stereotypes out the window and only using females. I didn’t feel this benefited the story, but rather took away from the underlying humanness and simplicity of Richard. He was a king that didn’t have the love of his people, was generally led by the opinions of others, easily swayed, and not the traditional battle-tested English King of the time. Richard is primarily played as “effeminate,” perhaps in an effort to invoke a sense of weakness. In almost every production I have seen, there’s been a problem. In his notes, director Sean Martin writes that the play is his favorite of Shakespeare’s works, except for one persistent convention: ![]() Nashville Shakespeare Festival’s Richard II also runs through April 23, and features an all-female cast. Want to hear some Shakespeare in OP? Watch an introduction by BSF company members Valerie Dowdle (Cleopatra) and Chris Cotterman (Antony), or check out our interview with OP experts David and Ben Crystal. This season, that show is Antony and Cleopatra, onstage through Sunday, April 23. ![]() ![]() It’s also the world premiere of Kenneth Cavender’s modernized “translation” of the play, part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s “Play On” initiative.Įach season, the Baltimore Shakespeare Factory performs a show in Original Pronunciation-a recreation of the dialect in which Shakespeare and his contemporaries spoke. It’s the final Shakespeare production for beloved Artistic Director Geoffrey Sherman, who has been with the Festival for 12 seasons. Christina King and Esau Pritchett in “The Tempest”Īt the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, The Tempest opens April 20. This month, we check in with our theater partners at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Baltimore Shakespeare Factory, Nashville Shakespeare Festival, Brave Spirits Theatre, The Old Globe, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Caroline Amos as King Richard II in Nashville Shakespeare Festival’s “Richard II.” Photo by Kenn Stilger.Įvery month, we share a snapshot of Shakespeare in performance around America.
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