Spectacle and Cultural Connotations: “Before Shakespeare”
Drs. Andy Kesson, Lucy Munro, and Callan Davies talk about their research project “Before Shakespeare”, which elucidates the first Elizabethan playhouses.
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Shared Light: “Shakespeare’s Sister”
In this interview, Dr. Emma Whipday, author of play “Shakespeare’s Sister”, discusses the many aspects of producing new plays with early modern inspiration.
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Movement within Translation: “Blood Wedding” & “Quietus”
In this post-mortem on “Blood Wedding”, I spoke via email with Compass Shakespeare Ensemble company member and movement choreographer Molly Seremet about working on movement in Lorca’s play.
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Shakespeare & Digitality: Social Media at the Royal Shakespeare Company
Senior Lecturer Dr. Erin Sullivan from Stratford’s Shakespeare Institute speaks to Folio on the role of social media and digitality in early modern theatre.
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Movement within Love & Loss: “Blood Wedding”
In this article spotlighting Mary Baldwin Theatre’s upcoming production of “Blood Wedding”, I spoke via email with Shakespeare & Performance assistant professor and director extraordinaire Doreen Bechtol about bringing Federico García Lorca’s evocative play to life.
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Sleeping Beauty provides introduction to devised work for MLitt students
The beast roars as fire shoots from its maw. It lunges, only to miss and get a swipe from a magic sword in return. The dragon, of course,... read morePAR Festival Propels Thesis Work
Presented together as a “PAR Festival,” the two performance as research projects focused on presenting scenes from Shakespeare in order to explore ideas being proposed by two MLitt theses.
read moreCombat in Shakespeare
Via email, I talked with J.P. Scheidler, S & P’s resident fight choreographer, about his background in stage combat, as well as how combat differently aligns within genre.
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Midsummer Madness: Directing “The Missing Mechanical”
by Maddie Buttitta Like the live rabbits in Herbert Beerbohm Tree’s 1900 production of Shakespeare’s “Midsummer”, adaptations of... read moreFall Visitations – Workshops and Guest Speakers
by Kyle Smith This semester has seen a number of special occasions – not to mention visitors – to our Shakespeare &... read moreOpportunities
