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Shakespeare scenes and a train ride

By Claire
May 21, 2010

Scenes from Shakespeare’s plays will be performed on New Mexico Rail Runner Express trains every Saturday this summer.  The University of New Mexico Department of Theatre Education and Outreach will perform during the afternoon and evening on northbound train No. 506 (from Albuquerque to Santa Fe) and southbound train No. 509 (from Santa Fe to...
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Teacher fired for using modern King Lear

By Claire
May 10, 2010

A New Zealand teacher, Suzette Martin, was dismissed from the private Westmount School in Kerikeri for using a modern version of King Lear with her Year 13 students. The New Zealand Herald reports that the Christian school’s committee found the text to be ”embarrassing, corrupting and morally defiling.” Read the full New Zealand Herald article.
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Sex offender found sleeping behind Shakespearean theatre

By Jessica
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March 16, 2010

In early March in Ashland, Oregon, a sex offender was found by police. Mark Lee McSweeney was found sleeping underneath stairs to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Elizabethan theatre. For further information on the man’s arrest, visit KMTR’s article here.
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F. Murray Abraham is theatre crime stopper!

By Caroline
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February 11, 2010

F. Murray Abraham single-handedly thwarted a thief attempting to rob the Classic Stage Company’s dressing rooms during rehearsals for Much Ado About Nothing.  Martha Plimpton is also in the show.  Lucky for the thief she wasn’t with Abraham at the time because that surely would have ended in an old-fashioned beat down.  Seriously.  Martha Plimpton...
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Book + video + sonnets = a vook of love

By Caroline
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February 10, 2010

Alright, I admit it, I’m just not up on this whole “vook” thing.  A vook?  Yesterday I would have thought that was something in Star Wars.   Well, I would have been wrong.  You see, when a book and a video or other multi-media item love each other very much, they combine and make...
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For the hockey Shakespeare crossover contingency

By Caroline
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February 2, 2010

…of which, I am a card carrying member.  Am I the only one?  I’m hopeful that there are more of you out there! It’s true.  I love hockey.  I love Shakespeare.  I could attempt to wax poetic about the parallels between the two — they do share beauty, brutality, enthusiastic fans who throw things...
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Hamlet meets the undead

By Caroline
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January 25, 2010

While I suppose one might say that Hamlet has an undead encounter of sorts in Shakespeare’s play, Jordan Galland, writer and director of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead, clearly felt that a ghost was simply not undead enough – so he’s added vampires.  And, just for good measure, he’s thrown in a conspiracy theory about...
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Kill Shakespeare teaser

By Caroline
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January 23, 2010

I think that says it all, really. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxRtWXRA9KQ
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Klingon, Elvish, Early Modern English: it’s all one

By Caroline
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January 21, 2010

This article from WikiNews mostly discusses the made-up language that James Cameron used in Avatar, but Shakespeare fans will note the third paragraph. Hamlet was translated into Klingon?!  Where was I?  How did I miss out on this fabulous fodder?  I just completed a production of Hamlet in German…but Klingon?!?!  Somebody out there, please, please,...
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“The Dude abides” by Shakespeare

By Caroline
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January 20, 2010

In one of the more hilarious and creative endeavors I have seen in a long time, Adam Bertucci created Two Gentlemen of Lebowski — his rendition of how Shakespeare might have written the Coen Brother’s cult classic, The Big Lebowski. Click here for the full script.  If you’re a fan of the two…or really...
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