Quincy Armorer: Hailing from Montreal, Quincy received his BFA in theatre performance from Concordia University. Acting credits include As You Like It, The Merchant of Venice (St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival) and Romeo and Juliet (Centaur Theatre). He was associate artistic director of Black Theatre Workshop in Montreal (2005-06).
Skye Brandon: From Saskatchewan, Skye has worked [...]
4 September 2008
Of the RSC’s participation in the Cultural Olympiad, Michael Boyd, Artistic Director said,
‘We are very lucky to have been given this major opportunity. A challenge that faced us after The Complete Works Festival 2006/07, was how to build on the excitement and relationships established during that very successful year. [...]
Rather than simply concentrate on the years between 1564 and 1616 when William Shakespeare lived, the Post in concerned with historical and archaeological matters dating from the 145-year period between 1497 and 1642. It was during this time that secular, vernacular English drama was born, flourished and then suppressed by the Puritans. Henry [...]
Gary Taylor’s Letter
Dear Margaret Bartley,
I am writing to you because Arden’s abrupt termination of Pat Parker’s contract for “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” raises fundamental questions about the legal, moral, and intellectual relationship between scholars and publishers.
I am joint General Editor (for Oxford University Press) of Shakespeare’s Complete Works and of Middleton’s Collected Works; [...]
How do you see books transforming Shakespeare into the world’s most famous playwright?
Historically, I think, Shakespeare has reached wider audiences through the printing of his plays in books than he has through the performances of those plays in the theater. If we include translations, comic books, text books, children’s books, song books, and scholarly books, [...]
William Shakespeare. Mr William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. Published according to the True Originall Copies. London: 1623. Rare Books and Manuscript Room. Barton Collection. G. 174.1
William Shakespeare. A Midsommer nights dreame. London: 1600. Rare Books and Manuscript Room. Barton Collection. G. 176.22
William Shakespeare. The most excellent Historie of the Merchant of Venice. [...]
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Othello at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts - Runs through August 31
Directed by Tony Simotes
Elizabeth Aspenlieder as Bianca
Jonathan Croy as Lodovico/Soldier
Michael Hammond as Iago
Merritt Janson as Desdemona
LeRoy McClain as Cassio
Tom Rindge as Duke of Venice/Soldier
John Douglas Thompson as Othello
Michael Toomey as Montano/Senator
Walton Wilson as Brabantio/Soldier
Ryan Winkles as Roderigo
Kristin Wold as Emilia
Timon of Athens at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre - Runs through 3 October
Directed by Lucy Bailey
Designed by William Dudley
Composed by Django Bates
Choreographed by Maxine Doyle
Cast
Peter Bankolé Jeweller/Flaminius
Jonathan Bond Lucius/Bandit/ Lucillius
Oliver Boot Ventidius/Bandit
Christopher Brandon Merchant/Servillius
Adam Burton Lucullus/Bandit
Richard Clews Senator/Stranger
Patrick Godfrey Flavius
Robert Goodale Senator/Old Athenian/Stranger
Michael Jibson Painter/Varro’s Servant
Michael Matus Poet/Caphis
Pippa Nixon Phrynia
Gary Oliver Alcibiades
Simon Paisley Day Timon
Sam [...]
The master directors
Mike Alfreds, England, director of Shared Experience for 35 yrs, former leader of Cambridge Theatre Co, author of Different Every Night
William Gaskill, England, founding director National Theatre, former artistic director of the Royal Court, co-founder Joint Stock
Garry Hynes, Ireland, co-founder and artistic director of Druid Theatre, Galway; first woman to win a Tony [...]
