By Jim Levulis for WAMC, 17 March 2015
It has been a tumultuous few weeks for Shakespeare & Company. In early March, executive director Rick Dildine abruptly resigned to return to Shakespeare Festival St. Louis as artistic and executive director. That was just six months after he came to Lenox. Days later, three members of the company’s board of trustees, including a chairperson and two vice chairs, resigned from their posts. WAMC’s Berkshire Bureau Chief Jim Levulis spoke with founding artistic director Tina Packer, who serves on the board of trustees, about the departure of Dildine and the others.
“I was fairly shocked,” Packer said. “We live in the world of Shakespeare plays. I certainly wasn’t expecting it and I don’t think any of us were. So it was surprising. Having said that, I think we’ve adjusted remarkably well and fast. Of course I’m far more interested in what it means going forward. We do want to look at what happened obviously, but we’re far more interested in thinking ‘OK, so what steps do we need to take now?’ We had worked very hard for a whole year asking ourselves ‘What kind of person would we like to lead us and what should their responsibilities be?”
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