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...member in the theatre seeing a couple of Shakespeare productions in this very intimate space… I’d seen a lot of Shakespeare that I’d enjoyed, but I’d always felt on the outside of it,” says Benjamin Evett, the Project’s Founding Artistic Director. “In these experiences I really felt a depth, clarity, and power that I hadn’t experienced, and I was really anxious to give that experience to other people in Boston...
...We’re really interested in getting young people into the theatre,” Evett says. “We think that our particular approach to these plays does make them accessible in a way that doesn’t condescend… or reduce the integrity of the play but actually informs...
...Project counters the persisting belief that Shakespeare’s works are inapplicable to modern times with a focus on the ways that the themes and the language of the plays tap into essentially human issues. “Even though he talks about sweeping things,” Evett says, “what he really understands better than any other writer is the intimate, personal struggles between people...
...many of the more serious and deep elements of the play, creating an entertaining but somewhat hollow experience. The story of Prospero (Alvin Epstein), the deposed Duke of Milan who now inhabits a mysterious island, his daughter Miranda (Mara Sidmore), and his servants Ariel (Marianna Bassham) and Calaban (Benjamin Evett) is one of Shakespeare’s most challenging. The play begins with the eponymous storm that causes the shipwreck of Prospero’s old enemies, including his usurping brother Antonio (Richard Snee) and Alonso (David Gullette), the King of Naples. Over the course of the play, Prospero uses...
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