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...basement of the Garage—is as important to the overall mood of the play as the set on which the actors perform. The choice of venue exemplifies director David R. Gammons’ stripped-down aesthetic, a simplicity that works with the brutal scenes of the Bard??s script and the vicious passion of the all-male cast to create an image sure to leave a lasting impression...
...students enter Harvard without having read a Shakespearean play, but the number that has sat through live productions may be considerably smaller. Unfortunately, opportunities to watch one of the Bard??s works have never been abundant on campus, and they decreased even more when Harvard’s only all-Shakespeare troupe, the Hyperion Theatre Company, experienced an organizational and financial crisis several years ago. However, several undergraduate thespians, led by President Sean R. Fredricks ’07 and Vice President Tara L. Moross ’09, hope to engineer a Shakespearean renaissance on campus...
...star-crossed lovers” all the way through “for never was a tale of such woe…” most everyone is familiar with the story of Juliet and her sweet Romeo. In the American Repertory Theater’s production of the Bard??s “Romeo and Juliet,” director Gadi Roll confronts the challenge of staging a version of the play which is new, or at least interesting. The production, whose run lasts through March 25, goes out of its way to make the play fresh...
James Shapiro will speak at the Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass. Ave, at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 26.The 1998 Oscar-winning film “Shakespeare in Love” has made us lust for a glimpse of the Bard??s romantic side. But in “A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599,” scholar James Shapiro finds no evidence of an amorous element in the playwright’s life at the end of the 16th century. “If Shakespeare was in love...
Because he targeted both an academic audience and the general public, Greenblatt says it took careful maneuvering to balance scholarly knowledge of the bard??s life with conjectures about his experiences...