Editor’s Note: Mark Mannette’s blog is part of our ongoing Players & Pedants series, which provides and inside look at theatre practitioners.
Friday, January 29
At 9:00 am this morning I met with the actress playing Lady Macbeth and we worked on 1.5. We discussed character and relationship as well as pronunciation and meter. We [...]
Read further anon →Editor’s Note: Alisha Huber’s blog on her production of Love’s Labour’s Lost is part of our ongoing Players & Pedants series, which provides an inside look at Shakespeare in performance.
I’m starting to feel better about this crazy project, although we have very little time left. The actors are working really hard, and that’s helping. [...]
Read further anon →Is Othello the Shakespearean tragedy of our times? It all seems to be there: precarious employment, mobility, and the hand-to-mouth existence of a globalized world.
Of course, there are questions of race and gender, and these have opened reservoirs of academic ink, with notable examples coming from Jonathan Dollimore, Alan Sinfield, [...]
Read further anon →Following the death of J.D. Salinger, the Shakespeare Geek revisits that author’s victorious law suit against John David California’s 60 Years On: Coming Through the Rye, and ponders how Shakespeare might have fared among such litigious peers.
Not well, it would have seemed. Salinger won an injunction prohibiting the US publication of the book [...]
Read further anon →Editor’s note: Mark Mannette’s Project Romulus blog is part of our ongoing Players & Pedants series, which provides an inside look at practitioners and scholars in the field.
Friday, January 22, 2010
This morning we had another student who couldn’t make Wednesday’s audition. I read her for a few roles. Also, a student who was [...]
Read further anon →Marcus Geduld’s new video-podcasts will be of interest to actors and directors alike. Using a speech from Pericles, the artistic director of New York-based Folding Chair Theater gives us an insight into how he approaches Shakespeare before meeting with his actors. From dealing with language to Cleon’s intention, there’s a lot of detail here, [...]
Read further anon →Titus Andronicus has had a bad rap over the last few centuries and is only recently recovering. But for as long as I’ve known the play, I’ve always been satisfied with it as a work of Shakespeare and as a beautifully coherent story despite its “far-fetchedness.” In this production, I am honored to be working [...]
Read further anon →Editor’s Note: Alisha Huber is sharing her experience as director of Love’s Labour’s Lost at Eastern Mennonity University as part of our ongoing ‘Players & Pedants’ series, which looks at Shakespeare from the practitioner’s perspective.
Lesson 1: College kids love Shakespeare. Who would have thought? Throughout the fall semester, I conducted workshops on Shakespeare at [...]
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