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Shakespeare offers insight into trans struggles, experience: scholar

Shakespeare offers insight into trans struggles, experience: scholar

The Canada Press published in the Vancouver Observer, 18 March 2016 The struggles of a gender-bending spirit servant in a Shakespearean classic offer unlikely but valuable insights into the experience of life as a modern-day trans person, argues a British Columbia scholar. Mary Ann Saunders, an English professor at the University of British Columbia, said she was struck after watching […]

March 20, 2016 · 0 comments · Interviews
Compilation: Emma Rice and Gendered Casting at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre

Compilation: Emma Rice and Gendered Casting at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre

The Globe’s Emma Rice: ‘If anybody bended gender it was Shakespeare’ By Mark Brown for The Guardian, 5 January 2016 The fact that just 16% of Shakespeare’s characters are women – and that most of the memorable lines are spoken by men – will not stop Emma Rice’s mission to get a gender-balanced stage at Shakespeare’s Globe. “There is no reason why Gloucester can’t […]

January 9, 2016 · 0 comments · Theaters
Acacia prison inmates put on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Acacia prison inmates put on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

By Laura Gartry for ABC News, 12 November 2015 After more than two years in the planning, Australia’s largest prison has put on several stage performances of Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream for visitors and fellow inmates. The 90-minute production is part of a new program at Acacia Prison in Perth that aims to develop life skills and reduce re-offending. Prison […]

November 15, 2015 · 0 comments · Global
Review: Bare Theatre’s imperfect but promising all-female production of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus

Review: Bare Theatre’s imperfect but promising all-female production of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus

By Byron Woods for Indy Week, 11 November 2015 The questions are rarely pursued in regional theater and our culture at large: What are the limits to a woman’s anger? In what ways might a women-only culture function—or not function? And how would a women’s theater company explore these and similar questions on stage? Bare Theatre’s all-female production of Titus […]

November 15, 2015 · 0 comments · Reviews
Reviews: Donmar Warehouse’s all-female Henry IV

Reviews: Donmar Warehouse’s all-female Henry IV

Why Shakespeare Set in a Women’s Prison Makes Complete Sense By Patrick Monahan for Vanity Fair, 5 November 2015 A group of actresses playing prison inmates. An episode ofOrange Is the New Black? Chicago the musical’s “Cell Block Tango”? No, it’s Shakespeare’s Henry IV. Phyllida Lloyd directs a new production of Henry IV—the second in a trilogy of all-female Shakespeare set in jail—at the new St. […]

November 15, 2015 · 0 comments · Reviews