iHamlet – a performance for one currently on at Johannesburg Theatre in South Africa. Check out this article which shares the performance’s relecance today – originally published on bizcommunity.com.
Measuring Shakespeare's digital heartbeat
myShakespeare is supported by BP
myShakespeare is a place to consider what Shakespeare means to us today
A creative space to share our thoughts and ideas, revealing how his words, stories and characters continue to influence and reflect human life. Click on ‘more about the project’ for an introduction from Tim Minchin.
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Chicken Shop Shakespeare is a collective of filmmakers and actors based in Leeds and the North of England. They bring Shakespearean words and scenes to unexpected situations and environments. Follow them on twitter @csshakespeare
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Doc Waller shares the musicality of the text in Shakespeare’s monologue, Enter Saturninus, Act IV Scene IV from Titus Andronicus. Doc is a performing artist, writer & director currently located in Auburn, Alabama (US).
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TO BE – a fresh take on Shakespeare by Australian Theatre for Young People in Sydney
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Take ten young actors, 9 different locations, one rainy day and the most famous monologue of them all and you have TO BE, a fresh take on Shakespeare’s best known words from the Australian Theatre for Young People in Sydney.
On the blog:
I’m generally an easy-going sort of person but had someone told me 20 years ago I’d be doing a stage-swordfighting workshop with young autistic, celebral palsy and Downs actors I’d have told them to hie them somewhere they could get stuffed. Then again, I didn’t really understand then how pointless such labels are, that all they do is present odds that young people resolutely defy. Teacher training and mainstream education does little to dispel such nonsense.
My second son (after a miraculous daughter) was born 8 years ago and we were scared with lots of labels including Edward’s syndrome. He has had numerous heart surgeries that are part of a big condition roughly pigeonholing him into a box marked ‘Dandy Walker complex’. He has defied all expectations and wins surprise and amazement; he has made me a much better person. And I went and developed a number of symptoms labelled Multiple Sclerosis.
Producer Lucy Collingwood shares her experiences on BBC Radio’s My Own Shakespeare
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I’m part of a small team at BBC Radio Drama who have produced a series called My Own Shakespeare which is being scattered across the BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4 and BBC 4 Extra schedules for the next couple of weeks. The idea for the series is a simple one. We asked a wide variety of public figures ‘Which piece of Shakespeare they’d save from a burning building ?’ We recorded their answers and paired them with performances of their chosen pieces by actors. The end result is a series of short programmes( each is about two and a half minutes) which will also be podcast. Continue Reading
