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Interview with Bayan Shbib, actor in Richard II by Palestine’s Ashtar Theater

Interview with Bayan Shbib, actor in Richard II by Palestine’s Ashtar Theater

Interviewed by Steve Rowland   Bayan Shbib; actress and drama teacher with Ashtar Theater, Palestine Bayan joined the Ramallah-based Ashtar Theatre in 2005 as an actress and drama teacher. In 2005 she won the prize for best young storyteller in the International Storytelling Festival in Birmingham, and just a year later she was awarded the prize for best actress in […]

Interview with Q Brothers, creators and stars of Othello

Interview with Q Brothers, creators and stars of Othello

Interviewed by Steve Rowland Q Brothers GQ and JQ; co-directors, creators, and stars of Othello part of the Globe to Globe Festival. GQ co-created, co-directed, and starred in the original productions of Othello: The Remix, . G also co-wrote and starred in the Off Broadway smash hit The Bomb-itty of Errors. Along with his brother and the other Bomb-itty guys, G wrote and starred […]

New Shakespeare Central Interview Series:  Inaugural “E-Mail” Interview —  Grand Rapids, MI Poet Laureate David Cope

New Shakespeare Central Interview Series: Inaugural “E-Mail” Interview — Grand Rapids, MI Poet Laureate David Cope

Shakespeare Central Times Interview: David Cope is a long time teacher of poetry, Shakespeare and literature.  He is also the Poet Laureate of Grand Rapids, Michigan.  Steve Rowland interviews David Cope via E-mail. Dave, very nice to ‘meet’ you and to be connected with you.  Thank you for agreeing to be the very first in a series of interviews with writers, […]

Interview with Amalia Bennett and Nikita Milivojevic, choreographer and director of the National Theatre in Belgrade, Serbia

Interview with Amalia Bennett and Nikita Milivojevic, choreographer and director of the National Theatre in Belgrade, Serbia

Interviewed by Steve Rowland Nikita Milivojevic and Amalia Bennett, director and choreographer of Henry IV part I, part of the Globe to Globe Festival. Nikita Milivojevic was born in 1961 in Indija (in the province of Vojvodina) and iscurrently regarded as one of Serbia’s leading theatre directors. In the 1990s hiscommitted productions had a lasting effect on his country’s theatre […]

Tango Macbeth- April 23rd Screening & Q/A with director

Tango Macbeth- April 23rd Screening & Q/A with director

Tango Macbeth follows the creation of a new dance theater which brings together Shakespeare, dance, and world music! A theater company rehearses Macbeth. A film crew documents their every move. The drama of the play intertwines with the drama of making the film. It’s unlike any version of Macbeth you have ever seen. Since the days of Ira Aldridge (1807-1867) […]