This week in education, Arizona schools go digital with “As You Like It,” New Zealand drops Shakespeare from their assessment essays, and the World Shakespeare Festival launches in anticipation of 2012.
Read further anon →Fresno artist Nanete Maki-Dearsan wants to reshape how modern viewers understand Ophelia; through her art, she endeavors to deconstruct Millais’s romantic depiction of a young lady driven to quiet, dignified suicidal despair. “If a girl wants to be special and unique, she needs to survive and be strong,” she says. “To be weak and give up, you’re just another Ophelia.”
From what I’ve read, Maki-Dearsan’s 36-foot re-envisioning of her subject is a sight to behold.
Read further anon →The following is a news release from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust regarding a new exhibition at The Morgan Library & Museum between February 4 and May 1, 2011:
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, the charity which promotes and cares for Shakespeare’s heritage, has acquired the lost copy of the [...]
Read further anon →My name is Gina Miller and I have made a animation entitled “The Ophelia Diaries”. I have always been moved by the tragic figure that is Shakespeare’s Ophelia. I wrote a poem about Ophelia that she narrates from her point of [...]
Read further anon →After a four year redevelopment project, the RSC will reopen on Wednesday, November 24 and allow the public to explore the remodeled building’s new thrust stage auditorium, exhibition spaces, Rooftop Restaurant, and Riverside Café. A formal reopening with a new season will take place in April.
From the RSC press release:
24 November 2010 – Royal Shakespeare and Swan Theatres reopen with preview events and [...]
Read further anon →The Chair and the Maiden Gallery in New York hosted an official release and book signing event for Kill Shakespeare on November 9. Conor McCreery and Anthony Del Col created the graphic novel with artwork by Andy Belanger.
For photos from the gallery, visit the Kill Shakespeare website.
Continue here for the series trailer.
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Read further anon →Design students from the Art Institute of California in San Francisco recently interned for Abra Berman, costume designer for the Marin Shakespeare Company in San Rafael. Berman builds a collection in her workshop for the outdoor summer festival and the students helped her create the detailed eighteenth-century costumes for The Taming of the Shrew. Read more [...]
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