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Winter 2011/Spring 2012 Highlights Winter 2011/Spring 2012 Shakespeare Theatre Association Highlights 2 A Note from the STA President 3 Globe to Globe Festival 4 Shakespeare Coast-to-Coast 7 Seasons of Shakespeare 11 Shakespearean Snippets 2011−2012 STA Officers A Note from the STA President STA President Dear STA Colleagues, Patrick Spottiswoode You will have to borrow my Gargantua’s mouth to describe the wonders that Director of Globe Education will await you in Orlando from February 29-March 3 at the 2012 STA confer- Shakespeare’s Globe ence. This will, in effect, be the inaugural conference of our new Shakespeare [email protected] Theatre Association. STA is already attracting wider international interest, as Vice-President we all hoped it would. Delegates from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Denmark, Lesley Malin Germany and Poland will join us in Orlando. Managing Director The theme “Shakespeare Here and Everywhere” reflects our more outward- Chesapeake Shakespeare Company looking mission. Please contact me or the Chairs of the STA committees if [email protected] you would like to suggest a topic or contribute to a panel. A pre-conference Secretary workshop is also being organized. Michael Don Bahr Do encourage your Board members to attend. Lure them with the location or Education Director bribe them with the benefit of seeing Brian Bedford’s one-man show, which Utah Shakespeare Festival will open the conference. A seminar for Board members will also be offered. [email protected] David Dreyfoos, Lesley Malin and Dawn McAndrews will present a strategic Treasurer plan for STA. There will also be an opportunity to discuss how STA members Casey William Gallagher might collaborate to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death (or Ben Jonson’s First Folio, if you prefer) in 2016. Managing Director Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival The STA Executive has accepted Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival’s kind offer [email protected] to host the 2013 conference following Seattle’s decision to withdraw. Grateful Member at Large thanks to Patrick Mulcahy, Casey Gallagher and all at Pennsylvania Shake- Patrick Flick speare. Dates for the 2013 conference will be confirmed in Orlando. Associate Artistic Director/New Plays So leave your Fredericks behind and join STA companions at the Senior refuge. Orlando Shakespeare Theater [email protected] Member at Large Warmest, Jim Helsinger Patrick Spottiswoode, STA President Director of Globe Education, Shakespeare’s Globe Artistic Director Orlando Shakespeare Theater [email protected] Member at Large Michelle Traverso Education Director Shakespeare Walla Walla [email protected] Winter 2011/Spring 2012 Orlando Hosts 2012 International Gathering of Shakespeare Leaders Tony Award-winner Brian Bedford’s one-man show, The Lunatic, The Lover and The Poet, will be the performance highlight of the 2012 Shakespeare Theatre Association (STA) Conference hosted by the Orlando Shakespeare Theater in Partnership with UCF. The 7pm, February 29th event will be preceded by a kickoff cocktail party from 6-7pm for STA members and the conference will run through March 3, 2012. Using a bare stage and a stool, Mr. Bed- ford performs a wide range of characters in his acclaimed solo performance, exploring the emotion and psychology behind Shakespeare the man, as well as Shakespeare the playwright. The New York Times called the show “both an actor’s celebration of Shakespeare and an act of Shakespearean scholarship.” For additional information on the conference, check www.stahome.org Shakespeare’s Birthday to Launch International Globe to Globe Festival Jessica Ires Morris as The Barker in The Shakespeare Theatre of New Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London is producing an unprecedented 37-play Jersey’s 2011 production of Timon of Athens. Photo: Gerry Goodstein. “Globe to Globe” festival, a multi-lingual presentation of Shakespeare’s entire canon for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. Beginning on Shakespeare’s birthday, April 23, 2012, the Globe will present each of Shakespeare’s plays in Chicago Shakespeare Theater will participate a different language over six weeks. with an original CST commission and world premiere, The Q Brothers’ Othello: The Remix, pre- sented in American hip-hop. The Globe Theatre’s production of Henry V will be the only other production presented in the English language. Additional languages and companies span six continents, including: the National Theatre of China’s Richard III; Belarus Free Theatre’s King Lear; from Bangladesh, Dhaka Theatre’s The Tem- pest; Compañia Nacional de Teatro Mexico’s Henry IV: Part 1; a Zulu presentation of Venus & Adonis from South Africa’s Isango Theatre; the National Theatre of Greece’s Pericles; The South Sudan Theatre Company’s Cymbeline; and from Kyoto, Japan, Chiten’s Coriolanus. www.shakespearesglobe.com/globe-to-globe Paul Hilton (left) in the title role of Doctor Faustus at Shakespeare’s Globe, 2011. Photo: Keith Pattison. Page 3 Shakespeare Coast-to-Coast “We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” T. S. Elliot One of the tangible thrills of serving as Editor of quarto over the past twenty years has been the opportunity to visit with so many Shakespeare Theatre Association member theatres throughout the world. Most recently, I’ve traveled from Cali- Joshua Snyder, Jeremy Shaeg and Paige Fodor in The Comedy of Errors at Shakespeare Orange County, 2011. fornia to Oregon to Virginia to see over a dozen Photo: Johnny Le. STA member plays and it reminds me why we do what we do. At the 10th Anniversary celebration of the remarkable Blackfriars Theatre in tiny Staunton, Virginia (population 23,967), I was able to attend sold out performances and meet a proud and cheering community who have embraced the world’s only re-creation of Shakespeare’s indoor theatre and the American Shakespeare Center’s “we do it with the lights on” original staging practices. Where else can one see Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage, Ford’s ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, Beaumont and Fletcher’s Philaster, Middleton’s A Mad World, My Masters, and seven Shakespeare plays all in one season? Oregon’s Elizabethan Stage. Photo: T. Charles Erickson. Over the past two seasons under the stars in the predominantly Asian and Latino community of Garden Grove, California, (population 165,196) I watched Shakespeare Orange County and Tom Bradac’s rousing King Lear (with Shake- speare & Company’s Dennis Krausnick as Lear) and, director Alyssa Bradac’s riotous Comedy of Errors as teachers and students paid rapt attention to preshow lectures by local scholars. Heading North to the town of Orinda, California (population 18,445), blan- keted patrons braved chilly winds in California Shakespeare Festival’s intimate amphitheatre where director Joel Sass’ fiery Titus Andronicus featured the fine art of ripped out tongues, spurting blood, and impaled warriors—gleefully disgusting and delighting crowds at every turn. Stacy Ross (Tamora) and Rob Campbell (Saturninus) in Titus Andronicus at California Shakespeare Festival, 2011. Photo: Jay Yamada. Winter 2011/Spring 2012 Nesbyth Rieman and Kimberly Miller (two of the “Ariel Qualities”)in The Tempest in a steampunk adaptation at Marin Shakespeare Company, directed by Jon Tracy. Photo: Eric Chazankin. Finally, plunging into eight shows in four days as part of the American Theatre Critics Association’s descent on Ashland, Oregon (population 20,357) and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the continuing influence of Shakespeare on 21st century sensibilities was a palpable, T.S. Elliot “we shall not cease from exploration” moment. Mark Bedard (Ferdinand, King of Navarre) in Love’s Labor’s Lost at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 2011. Photo: Jenny Graham. Having worked with so many small struggling Shakespeare companies over the years and barely surviving the intense growth of the Alabama Shakespeare Fes- Bowmer beam fiasco. Quite a triumph for the tival in the wild 1980s growth years, it was somehow comforting to know that OSF company and the citizens of Ashland who even a theatre with a $26+ million budget has to, and is able to, cope with rallied to raise the tent, redesign and re-tech the the woes of a disrupted repertory, power outages and emergency re-stagings production, secure the space next to a duck pond (due to a disastrous cracked beam that shut down the Angus Bowmer theatre/ in the city’s Lithia Park and spark a standing see www.osfashland.org for the full story). OSF leaders Bill Rauch and Paul ovation for the company’s hard-hitting, small Nicholson teamed with a motivated and spirited company and City leaders and town Oklahoma tale of sensationally dysfunc- the repertory continued on in temporary spaces (an armory, a miraculously tional families. constructed, air-conditioned tent in a city park, etc.) Fortunately, the Shakespeare plays were just as Remarkably, in the midst of the crisis (the worst in OSF’s 76-year history, ac- engaging. Julius Caesar director Amanda Dehnert cording to OSF execs), poignant theatre continued (onstage and back stage). grabbed the audience right from the start as All in all, it was six weeks of sometimes ingenious, often giddy improvising actress Vilma Silva (as Julius Caesar) and her for a company scrambling to produce over 780 performances for approximately supporting entourage cajole the audience into 400,000 visitors. “This has been a most amazing time for our company, our turning off their cell phones (or else) and work audiences and this community,” said OSF Artistic Director Bill Rauch. “The the crowd into a mini-frenzy with pre-show commitment, patience, passion and generosity of thousands of people have instructions before blending seamlessly into the redefined the ideas of ‘company’ and ‘resiliency’ for us.” opening moments of the show. Ms. Silva deftly assumes Caesar’s mantle with a laser-like sense Sitting in the 598-seat audience for the packed premiere “Bowmer in the of purpose and a no nonsense approach to the Park” tent performance of August: Osage County, this reviewer had to marvel text.
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