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Slow Arts Actors activate text into life-forms. Using Poetry as an act of realignment. But when dealing with Hamlet, which text are we talking about? 1st Quarto – a gritty murder mystery 2nd Quarto – twice as many words and the most quotable The post Slow Arts first appeared on I Love Shakespeare ..read more

The Experiment: HAMLET in 4 days. And perform a premiere on the 5th day. Madness. Hold on the experiment goes further. 12 actors to do 34 characters total. 7 Main roles: King Claudius, Queen Gertrard, Prince Hamlet, Polonius, Laertes, Ophelia & Horatio all get their [...] The post The Experiment: HAMLET in 4 days first appeared on I Love Shakespeare ..read more

Naming Will in the (1st 126) Sonnets: 6.5+6 That use is not forbidden usury, Which happies those that pay the willing loan; 22.10+11 As I not for my self, but for thee will, Bearing thy heart which I will keep so chary, 26.7+8 But that I hope some good conceit In thy soul’s thought (all [...] The post Naming Will in the (1st 126) Sonnets: first appeared on I Love Shakespeare ..read more

#154Sonnets1min We did it. We being Homepage Shakespeare Dallas in the AT&T Wyley Theater on May 28th, 2017. So Shakes Dallas had a 5 year plan to complete the oeuvre of WS. The final read-through consisted of 154 Sonnets. And Yours Truly got the job of hosting them. As incidental Shakespeare events go this [...] The post #154Sonnets1min first appeared on I Love Shakespeare ..read more

How now, Sir William! whither were you sent? My name. His name. Yes Sir. Whither go you, George? Third of me middle names. Whither and thither indeed. Yet I cannot go thither, without knowing whither. We’ll to Sutton Co’fil’ tonight. Faith, sir, a’ has an English name; Lord help us, he’s too, too [...] The post How now, Sir William! whither were you sent? first appeared on I Love Shakespeare ..read more

Relationships. Like it or not, we are born into a relationship with Shakespeare. Some are in more deeply than others. He exists as a brand for Stratford upon Avon, his birthplace. He decorated a credit card and that guy/meme is on twitter and fb. He adorns trinkets and mugs and cushions and [...] The post Relationships first appeared on I Love Shakespeare ..read more

A month ago feels like a fleeting year since playing Henslowe and improvising in Original Pronunciation. Henslowe and Alleyne. What a pair! Grace Iopollo’s lecture-performance (with actor reading) told us about Edward Alleyne who forced a change in Henslowe’s Will the day before he died. He could barely hold the quill. A bunch of [...] The post Henslowe at SWP: first appeared on I Love Shakespeare ..read more

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Slow Arts Actors activate text into life-forms. Using Poetry as an act of realignment. But when dealing with Hamlet, which text are we talking about? 1st Quarto – a gritty murder mystery 2nd Quarto – twice as many words and the most quotable ..read more