God ye good morrow, all at once! In lieu of general rumour for the past week, which, as it were, is not much I hear, bar the news of a 2nd Folio acquired by Watkinson, thus, in brief, methought I could write ye a piece on Shakespeare’s bejewelled tongue, originally [...]
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Welcome back to Speak the Speech. I hope you all had a great time celebrating Shakespeare’s birthday! Lots of great things are happening in performance news this week.
Onward! After cancelling its fall 2011 season due to the loss of government funding, North Carolina Shakespeare is BACK! They announced their 2012 season, which includes [...]
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If you are out in Hollywood, check out this production: Two Gentlemen of Chicago. Riffing on Two Gents, the company incorporates Shakespeare’s text with music by the band Chicago as well as some dance and improv. For example, both Valentine and Proteus try to woo Sylvia with the [...]
Read further anon →Hi all! Sorry for the long absence. It’s so great that Kim managed to take over for me. As you know, final’s week is hell week. And if you’re a grad student, the pressure just multiplies. If I’m lucky enough, this is my last semester for coursework and I will finally become a grad candidate.
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Read further anon →Venus and Adonis is a stunning, wry, poignant, erotic poem laden with theatricality, irony, passion and pathos. It captures passages and themes dating back to Ovid, rekindled in the works of Christopher Marlowe (Hero and Leander) and Spenser (Faerie Queene) and has been immortalized in paintings by visual artists ranging from Titian to Rubens. Even [...]
Read further anon →Welcome back to Speak the Speech. Not the busiest week, it seems, but lots of news for the upcoming season.
The Vintage Theater Collective holds its annual Sonnetfest this week in Chicago.
Openings:
Both Orlando Shakespeare Theater and the NVA Ensemble open shows this week. Orlando Shakespeare opens Cymbeline to [...]
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The Public Theater announced its 50th Shakespeare in the Park season including As You Like It and Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim.
A bit of extra drama during Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s opening night of Romeo and Juliet: Johnny Lee Davenport, a favorite [...]
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