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THE BEST WAY TO READ SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS IS OUT LOUD AND WITH FRIENDS!
The Nashville Shakespeare Festival invites you to read every play Shakespeare wrote, out loud in a reading circle. Once a month, we will gather at the Downtown Nashville Public Library on Church Street to read one of the works of William Shakespeare.
This Blog is a discussion of the reading by those that participate and for those that can't join us.
NEXT READINGS:
As You Like It
April 3, 2010 at Nashville Main Public Library
April 17, 2010 at Brentwood Library
Julius Caesar
May 1, 2010 at Nashville Main Public Library
May 15, 2010 at Brentwood Library
already read:
Henry VI Part I 10/2008
Henry VI Part II 11/2008
Henry VI Part III 12/2008
Richard III 01/2009
Titus Andronicus 02/2009
The Comedy of Errors 03/2009
The Taming of the Shrew 04/11/2009
The Two Gentlemen of Verona 05/02/2009
Love's Labor's Lost 06/06/2009
Richard II 07/11/2009
King John 08/01/2009
Romeo & Juliet 09/05/09
A Midsummer Night's Dream 10/03/09
The Merchant of Venice 11/14/09
The Merry Wives of Windsor 12/12/09
Henry IV Part 1 1/2/10
Henry IV Part 2 2/6/10
Much Ado about Nothing 3/6/10
The Nashville Shakespeare Festival invites you to read every play Shakespeare wrote, out loud in a reading circle. Once a month, we will gather at the Downtown Nashville Public Library on Church Street to read one of the works of William Shakespeare.
This Blog is a discussion of the reading by those that participate and for those that can't join us.
NEXT READINGS:
As You Like It
April 3, 2010 at Nashville Main Public Library
April 17, 2010 at Brentwood Library
Julius Caesar
May 1, 2010 at Nashville Main Public Library
May 15, 2010 at Brentwood Library
already read:
Henry VI Part I 10/2008
Henry VI Part II 11/2008
Henry VI Part III 12/2008
Richard III 01/2009
Titus Andronicus 02/2009
The Comedy of Errors 03/2009
The Taming of the Shrew 04/11/2009
The Two Gentlemen of Verona 05/02/2009
Love's Labor's Lost 06/06/2009
Richard II 07/11/2009
King John 08/01/2009
Romeo & Juliet 09/05/09
A Midsummer Night's Dream 10/03/09
The Merchant of Venice 11/14/09
The Merry Wives of Windsor 12/12/09
Henry IV Part 1 1/2/10
Henry IV Part 2 2/6/10
Much Ado about Nothing 3/6/10
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Your Facilitator: Nashville Shakespeare Festival Artistic Director
Denice Hicks has been working for The Nashville Shakespeare Festival since 1990, and has held the position of Artistic Director from 1998-2002 and since 2005. Local audiences might know her best as an actress, having worked on Nashville stages since 1980. For Shakespeare in the Park, she directed the Asian-influenced Macbeth, as well as lively versions of The Tempest, and Twelfth Night. For The Festival's Winter Shakespeare at Troutt Theater, she has directed Hamlet and most recently the critically acclaimed Vaudeville-styled Richard the Third. An avid advocate for empowering students with Shakespeare, Denice has edited and directed touring productions of Shakespeare’s works, developed workshops for students of all ages, and created the Festival’s Apprentice Company Training Program. Educated at Point Park University in Pittsburgh, Pa, she moved to Nashville in 1980 to perform at Opryland. Denice was an original company member of the Tennessee Repertory Theatre, and was among the founders of both the Darkhorse Theater and of People’s Branch Theatre. An Ingram Fellowship award winner, her work has been praised by the Tennessean, Nashville City Search, and The City Paper, among other publications, from which she has received “Best Actor” and “Best Director” acknowledgments.
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The Festival employs the most talented theatre artists from around Nashville to help create unique and relevant productions and programs that stimulate the creative thinking and communication skills of everyone from business men and women to children throughout Middle Tennessee.
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Greetings, Fellow Journeyers! Due to the wonderful attendance growth for Shakespeare Allowed!, our gracious hosts at the downtown library are moving us on up--to the 3rd floor!
Follow the signs on Saturday and come see the room that the library is designating "the Shakespeare Allowed! Room."
It's turned a bit chilly, but reading Midsummer together will recreate the warmth and magic of a night filled with mystical adventures in the forest!
(I know that's totally corny, but Shakespeare brings out the child in me!)
Come read and laugh with us on Saturday--and afterward we can use this space to talk about whether or not Shakespeare wrote Pyrramus and Thisby based on his own sense of humor about Romeo and Juliet, or based on his actor's goofing off while rehearsing it.
Thanks everyone for a great reading today. Midsummer is my favorite of the comedies. Bottom cracks me up every time.
My suggestion for how to present the fairies was steampunk. I was explaining steampunk to Hailey, and she suggested goth steampunk. Then we found this dude:
http://rantchick.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/steampunk21.jpg
And there you go. Goth steampunk fairy. Steampuck!
Anyway, I figure the fairies need to be distinctively other. Marginalized or liminal. So maybe instead of magic they have steampunk retro-futurist technology. Or maybe they're circus folks or nerds or space aliens or college republicans.
I think Matt's [smith] idea is worth pursuing. Much better than my Nazi prison guard theme [Titania is rather butch, cropped hair, a woman of heft, lots of gravel and severity in her voice, no humor at all.]. Ouch.
That aside (thank God) Saturday's read was my favorite too, I think. One of my favorite Shakespeare speeches is Titania's forgeries of jealousy speech. That, and Oberon's I know a bank where the wild thyme blows. These ecstasies never age, nor do they ever fail to enchant. They are, truly, as plucked out of a dream.
And then there is Bottom of course, who, like Falstaff and Mercutio (his aliases) demand more of the reader/actor than others. These guys are almost larger than the plays they traffic. Bottom literally steps out of the ether to bring out the belly laugh in each of us. [Therefore, Bottom's dream has no bottom. He is too palpable, too outrageously present, too immediate for a mere dream to contain him.]
Would love to see more traffic on this blog. I get tired of my own rant sometimes.
That steam puck is gorgeous! I love the notion that just because the fairy world controls the natural one, that they don't necessarily have to be made of flowers and things. According to the fairy's speeches, they are tiny creatures--creeping into acorn cups and things--but they really could LOOK anyway we wanted them to. I agree with Matt, they definitely need to be "other." The last time I directed this show we played with fractal images--it was quite an education for me. This next time around, I'm excited about opening the doors of creativity even wider and finding the true essence of that fairy world! Anybody else have any specific images?
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