All Hail the Queen King: In Conversation with Jessica Powell
We still preform Shakespeare’s plays becasue they contiunue to offer incredibnly insight into human behavior. This has allowed artists and directors to adapt his plays to meet their historical needs. Indeed, since it was first written King Lear has undergone numerous adaptations each unique, special and impactful in their own ways while still retaining the […]
O, for a Zoom of fire: Reimagining Free Shakespeare in the Park
In the prologue to Henry V, the chorus invokes a “muse of fire” by asking the audience to use their “imaginary forces” to see kings, armies, horses, and the battlefields of France, all within the bounds of Shakespeare’s wooden O, the Globe Theatre. Suppose within the girdle of these wallsAre now confined two mighty monarchies,Whose […]