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Weird William
A Letter from the STA President
Grand Opening in Poland
New Theatre for Utah
Seasons of Shakespeare
Shakespearean Snippets
Shakespeare Photo Gallery
Summer 2014
Shakespeare Theatre Association
2013-2014 STA Officers
President
JEFF WATKINS
Artistic Director
Atlanta Shakespeare Company
JeffWatkins@ShakespeareTavern.com
Vice President
LISA TROMOVITCH
Producing Artistic Director
Livermore Shakespeare Festival/
Shakespeare’s Associates
lisa@livermoreShakes.org
Secretary
SARAH ENLOE
Director of Education
American Shakespeare Center
sarahe@americanshakespearecenter.com
Treasurer
SCOTT JACKSON
Executive Director
Shakespeare at Notre Dame
scottjackson@nd.edu
Member at Large
REBECCA ENNALS
Artistic Director
San Francisco Shakespeare Festival
Rennals@sfshakes.org
Member at Large
GRANT MUDGE
Ryan Producing Artistic Director
Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival
gmudge@nd.edu
Member at Large
CHRISTOPHER V. EDWARDS
Associate Artistic Director, Director of Education
Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival
chris@hvshakespeare.org
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Weird William
The New York Times asked
students to submit their
performances of Hamlet
scenes via Instagram. A
few of the 500 entries
may be found at: http://
www.nytimes.com/video/
theater/100000002611529/
instahamlet.
html?ref=williamshakespeare
A new line of graphic
Shakespeare novels offers
a 21st century look at
the Bard and education.
Timberdoodle’s Deb
Deffinbaugh explains:
“Shakespeare and I just never
clicked. . . . Maybe you have a
child like me, whose aversion
to the well-respected bard
has you on the fence. Should you force the issue, as most government
schools do? Or should you drop it from your curriculum and have your
child experience cultural ignorance? Whether you view the study of
Shakespeare with delight or dread, he is a literary icon; references to
his works are everywhere,
from advertising to sermons,
and we do our children a
disservice if we ignore his
impact. If you have a child
who groans at the thought
of Macbeth, you may find
a whole different attitude
when you present your child
with these graphic versions
of Shakespeare’s works.
Obviously these books are
condensed, but they have
retained enough key phrases
and quotations from the
originals that your child will
have more than a nodding
acquaintance with each
celebrated play. While the
reading level is for grades
four and above, please
keep in mind that Shakespeare’s plays are pictures of humanity both
at its very worst as well as its very best, delving into issues of romance,
deceit, tragedy, and revenge”
(www.timberdoodle.com/Graphic_Shakespeare_s/353.htm).
Summer 2014
A Note from the STA President
Our story begins more than 35 years ago in Stratford, Ontario with a young lad. Let’s call him Sean (his name is actually Sion,
pronounced Sean). He was one of countless young Canadians who benefitted from education programs offered by what was
then called the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. Like so many before and after, Shakespeare would continue to have an effect on
his life long after that initial exposure.
Fast forward to August, 2013, our friend Sion is a successful
hotelier working at one of the world’s great hotels in one of
America’s most historic and exotic cities. Right there on his
computer screen, Sion is being queried whether his hotel (the
Fairmont, atop Nob Hill) would be willing to host a prestigious
gathering of 140 delegates from Shakespeare companies from
all over the world for their 25th Annual Shakespeare Theatre
Association conference.
At that moment I imagine the memories bubbling up from
his past, so much so that what would at first blush be patently
impossible has been made inevitable. Against all odds our
good friends—Stratford-bred Sion Edwards and Toby Leavitt
and the folks at San Francisco Shakespeare—have managed to
secure conference facilities and accommodation for our 2015
conference at one of the world’s finest hotels!
As it turns out, the first week of January is SLOW even for the
most exclusive hotels, thus certain discounts are possible and in
this case, the Fairmont’s Director of Sales knows first-hand the
value of what we do.
San Francisco IS expensive. But attendees will have the option
of staying at the Fairmont for as little as $88 per person (double
occupancy; room rates are $175 and $199 to $249 per night
depending on whether it’s one or two beds, the view, some other
stuff and let’s not forget the taxes)!
Clearly that’s more than some can afford and more than we’ve been able to secure in the past. Worry not, there’ll be a “hostel
alternative” and $60 a night. But the REALLY BIG NEWS is that the Executive Committee has approved a $10,000 expenditure
to provide conference bursaries to STA Member Companies in good standing who choose to stay at the Fairmont. We haven’t
worked out all the details, but awards from $200 to $600 will be provided to companies with smaller budget sizes and for those
whose delegates must travel great distances.
Our annual conference is the beating heart of our association. Each year it is a chance to recharge our batteries; to invigorate
our sense of mission . . . it’s a time for true fellowship; a time to share our struggles, our wisdom and lessons learned. And let’s
not forget those “spirited” discussions into the wee hours of the morn!
This next year, we’ll celebrate our 25th Anniversary and we’ll do it in style.
I may even bring a change of socks!
Very truly yours,
Jeff Watkins
STA President
P.S. Make your plans now and invite your board! Then call colleagues who missed last year’s conference and encourage them
to come to San Francisco in 2015. Also, keep an eye out for our Application for Support. We’ll have the particulars ironed out in
the next few weeks.
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Summer 2014
A Letter from the Editor
Dear
Shakespeareans,
Thrilling to Maori
tribal war dances on
New Zealand’s east
coast and venturing
back to Tasmania
(Australia’s island
home to long ago
Jim Volz
English exiles) stirred
vivid memories of 24
years with my incorrigible Shakespeare
Theatre Association scalawags.
Something about the breweries,
fish and chip stands and those New
Zealanders with their tongues hanging
out to taunt and challenge invading
tribes (ala the French guard in Monty
Python and the Holy Grail) felt oddly
similar to the late night bar antics of
drowsy Shakespeareans giddy from
a scintillating day of tackling iambic
pentameter, board issues, the joys of
rhetoric and last year’s marketing woes.
In other words, while a January, 2014
summer in New Zealand and Australia
seemed preferable to winter in Stratford,
Canada, I missed you.
Fortunately, 2014/15 offers the promise
of renewed Bard-based relationships
and introductions to other passionate
Shakespeareans. One of the key
purposes of quarto is to chronicle
the many productions happening
worldwide to encourage the STA
Menacing Maori Tribesmen. Photo by Evelyn Carol Case.
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membership and other readers to pack
it up and go visit a new Festival this
year! quarto lists upcoming plays and
programs to encourage artistic directors
(and managing directors,
education directors and
their companies) to check
out other directors’ work,
marvel at the visions and
designs of artists who
transform bare stages
and brilliant fabrics
into resplendently
costumed characters
in stunning settings.
There are so many
Bard-friendly places
to go and thanks
to the Institute of
Outdoor Theatre, we know
that attendance is up!
Let me suggest that the glorious new
Chesapeake Shakespeare Company
theatre (opening in Maryland in
September) top your list for fall travels
and that this summer you sample one or
more of the 200+ Festivals throughout
the USA and Canada. Or, if you are
really adventurous, venture over to the
September opening of the remarkable
new theatre in Gdansk, Poland or one of
the many grand Shakespeare festivals
abroad (see quarto back issues at
www.stahome.org for suggestions)!
celebrating our 25th Anniversary in
San Francisco in 2015. We will have
to persuade STA co-founder Douglas
Cook to venture north from San Diego
to accept our thanks and we know
co-founder Sidney
Berger would be
proud. Sid will always
be remembered as
a guiding light for
Shakespeare in America
and it’s only fitting
that an award in his
memory was created
by his widow, Sandra
Berger, and awarded to
another “international
Texan.” Guy Roberts,
founder and artistic director
of Prague Shakespeare
Festival, received the
inaugural Sidney Berger Award from
the Shakespeare Theatre Association
in January, 2014. Congratulations, Guy,
and congratulations to all of you who
carry on with such grace and panache!
Warmly,
Jim Volz, Editor, quarto
It’s hard to believe we will be
Frightening STA Warriors, Pennsylvania, 2012. Photo courtesy of STA website.
Summer 2014
Hamlet, directed by Jan Klata, is set for Gdańsk opening season in Poland. Photo provided by Gdańsk
Shakespeare.
Poland’s Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre
Grand Opening Set for September 19
Poland’s Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre will officially open its doors
on September 19, 2014. According to theatre officials, the complex
will be “the only one of its kind in the world.” The design includes
an “opening roof” that allows the staging of plays in daylight
and a modern stage flexibly adaptable to Italian, Elizabethan or
experimental theatre. The auditorium will be suitable for around
600 people.
The theatre’s first season will be inaugurated by a “British Week.”
It will begin with Hamlet by Shakespeare’s Globe in London and
Missing by Ipswich, England’s Gecko Theatre. Exhibitions and
British cinema will also be included in collaboration with the
British Council.
In late September and early October, the 18th Shakespeare
Festival in Gdańsk will take place and include Jan Klata’s Hamlet by
Schauspielhaus Bochum and Hamlet from the National Theatre in
Sofia, directed by Javor Gardev. November will run under the sign
of the Romanian Week (November 3-10) and the season will also
include the National Theatre in Warsaw.
On April 23, 2014 there will be a celebration of Shakespeare’s
450th Birthday, combined with “The First Public Opening of the
Roof,” when the building of the theatre will be taken over by the
acrobats, alpinists, actors and strongmen, supported by various
visual and lighting effects.
www.teatrszekspirowski.pl
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Hamlet, directed by Jan Klata, is set for Gdańsk opening season in Poland. Photo
provided by Gdańsk Shakespeare.
Summer 2014
Utah Shakespeare Festival and Southern Utah University Break
Ground for the Beverley Taylor Sorenson Center for the Arts
Utah Shakespeare Festival and Southern
Utah University’s groundbreaking for
the Beverley Taylor Sorenson Center for
the Arts on March 27, 2014 heralded
the beginning of a new era, a new
home, a new outdoor Shakespeare
theatre and a new studio theatre for
the Utah Shakespeare Festival. The
complex will also include an artistic and
production building for the Festival
and the Southern Utah Museum of Art.
The artistic and production building
will include a rehearsal space, costume
shop and administration offices. The
Center for the Arts is expected to begin
rising during the summer of 2014.
The Center will be completed for the
opening of the Festival’s 2016 season
and just in time for Shakespeare’s 400th
celebration.
“When the new Center for the Arts
opens in 2016, it will be the home to
professional performing and visual arts
for all of southern Utah,” said R. Scott
Phillips, USF executive director.
The Utah Shakespeare Festival’s 53rd
season will run from June 23 to October
18, 2014. The Festival will produce
Measure for Measure, The Comedy of
Errors and the third play in the History
Cycle chronicling Shakespeare’s England
and its kings: Henry IV Part One in the
Adams Shakespearean Theatre.
Featured in the Randall L. Jones Theatre
will be a world premiere of a new
adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and
Sensibility, Stephen Sondheim’s Into the
Woods, and Twelfth Night, which will
play throughout the Festival season.
Rounding out the late end of the season
will be Steven Dietz’s Sherlock Holmes:
The Final Adventure and Boeing-Boeing
by Marc Camoletti.
www.bard.org
Corey Jones as King John in the Utah Shakespeare Festival
production of King John, 2013. Photo by Karl Hugh.
Computerized rendering of the proposed Shakespeare theatre as part of the Beverley Taylor Sorensen Center for the Arts. Blalock and Partners, architects.
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Summer 2014
Institute of Outdoor Theatre Research Study Shows
Attendance Is Up at Shakespeare Festivals Nationwide
In recognition of its member growth
among Shakespeare festivals and
contemporary theatre producers, the
Institute of Outdoor Drama recently
changed its name to the Institute of
Outdoor Theatre (IOT).
The number of Shakespeare festivals
participating in the study also increased
by more than 150% in 2013 as the
Institute invited both IOT members and
non-members to submit data for the
first time.
According to the annual IOT attendance
reports for 2013, the majority of
Shakespeare festivals reported growth
in their attendance, ticket revenues, or
both for the first time in five years. 75%
of the theatres reporting in the past two
years saw ticket revenues increase, and
total sales were up 5.5%. Total audience
numbers were also up 12.6% for the
free Shakespeare festivals. Although
more than half of the paid companies
reported attendance increases, their
attendance was down by 7.9% overall
even while revenues increased (higher
ticket prices).
The IOT shared the attendance reports
at the 2014 STA Conference in Stratford
and they are detailed according to
“Trends for All Outdoor Theatres and
Budget Data” (tinyurl.com/ofwyept) and
the “Report for all Shakespeare Festivals”
(tinyurl.com/okb5g5r). The Institute of
Outdoor Theatre welcomes all outdoor
theatre companies as members.
Checkout www.outdoor-theatre.
org/membership-benefits for more
information.
Annapolis Shakespeare Company’s 2013 production of
Much Ado about Nothing directed by Sally Boyett.
Photo by Corey Sentz.
Seasons of Shakespeare
Annapolis 2014 Season
The Annapolis Shakespeare Company’s
2014 season includes Hamlet, a
modern-dress production directed by
Founding Artistic Director Sally Boyett
at the Bowie Playhouse and The Two
Gentlemen of Verona at Annapolis
City Dock (and the company’s first
offering of free outdoor Shakespeare
in Annapolis). Also, Moliere’s Scapin at
Reynolds Tavern’s outdoor courtyard
and The Tempest, directed by Jay Brock,
is set for the Bowie Playhouse. Macbeth
will be the first main stage production
performed in ASC’s new black box
studio. The company is thrilled to
announce that Kristin Clippard has been
named Education Director/Associate
Artist and director of ASC’s Young
Company.
www.annapolisshakespeare.org
Shakespeare Saturation
As David Itzkoff recently noted in
The New York Times, “a saturation of
Shakespeare offers tough choices”
on Broadway this year and not all
audiences come to New York to see
“singing Mormons or the warbling
witches of Oz.” The Broadway theatre
season to date has chalked up four
Shakespeare productions with two
more Off-Broadway productions and
more on the way. For the full article,
Google “David Itzkoff and Saturation of
Shakespeare.”
Shakespeare in London
Joey Fechtel (left) as Falstaff and Parker Matthews as Mr. Ford from Seattle’s GreenStage 2013 Backyard Bard production of
The Merry Wives of Windsor. Photo by Ken Holmes.
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Not to be outdone, Shakespeare in
London is also on a roll with a Hip-Hop
Richard II at the Purcell Room on the
South Bank, King Lear at the National
Theatre, The Comedy of Errors and A
Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Rose
Theatre Kingston and Simon Callow:
Being Shakespeare at the Harold Pinter
Theatre. The Mumbai-based Arpana
Theatre Company performs All’s Well
That Ends Well in Gujurati set in 20th
Summer 2014
century India at Shakespeare’s Globe
(May 5-10) and the deaf-led theatre
company Deafinitely Theatre return to
Shakespeare’s Globe with A Midsummer
Night’s Dream performed in British
sign language, June 2-7. For more on
Shakespeare’s Globe season, checkout:
www.shakespearesglobe.com
Advice To The Players
Advice To The Players 2014 season
includes a Bard’s Birthday celebration
with Elizabethan Dinner on April 23,
Shakespeare camps, a Second Stage
modern comedy riffing on Shakespeare
in July and an outdoor The Merry Wives
of Windsor at the Sandwich Fairgrounds
Stage in August. In October, the
company will host the third annual
Shakespearian Idol, where contestants
pair Shakespeare’s speeches with
popular songs.
Richard III played through March 23.
www.AdviceToThePlayers.org
Pavel Kříž (left) as the Fool and Rutherford Cravens as Lear in King Lear at Prague Shakespeare Company. Photo by
JJ Johnston.
APT Anniversary
Virginia’s 17-Play Season
2014 is American Players Theatre’s 35th
Anniversary Season and the theatre will
produce nine plays in rotating repertory
June 7–November 9. The shows on the
Hill include Much Ado About Nothing,
Romeo and Juliet, Oscar Wilde’s The
Importance of Being Earnest, Anton
Chekhov’s The Seagull (translated by
Carol Rocamora), and George Bernard
Shaw’s The Doctor’s Dilemma. The
indoor Touchstone Theatre will host
David Mamet’s American Buffalo, along
with Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical
Thinking, Tom Stoppard’s Travesties and
Euripides’ Alcestis (translated by Ted
Hughes). Brenda DeVita is now Artistic
Director of Spring Green, Wisconsin’s
American Players Theatre and Carey
Cannon has been named Associate
Artistic Director.
Virginia’s American Shakespeare Center
will produce 17 productions in five
separate rotating repertory seasons,
including six Blackfriars Playhouse
premieres between June, 2014 and
June, 2015. The “Explore More” season
features Macbeth, The Comedy of Errors,
Pericles, The Taming of the Shrew, Much
Ado About Nothing, and Hamlet as well
as Edward II and Doctor Faustus by
Christopher Marlowe. The White Devil by
John Webster, Every Man in His Humour
by Ben Jonson, Mother Bombie by John
Lyly, Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmund
Rostand, The Rover by Aphra Behn and
Wittenberg by David Davalos round
out the season. Three holiday favorites
will also return in December, 2014:
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens,
The Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris,
and The Twelve Dates of Christmas by
Ginna Hoben.
www.americanshakespearecenter.com
americanplayers.org
New York Classical Theatre’s The Tempest featuring Rin Allen
as Ariel, directed by Sean Hagerty. Photo by Miranda Arden.
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Summer 2014
Leopold Lowe and Kurt Rhoads in Hudson Valley Shakespeare’s 2014 Othello, directed by Christopher V. Edwards, with costumes by Charlotte Palmer-Lane. Photo by Travis Magee.
25 Years, Bard on the Beach
Bard Unbound
British Columbia’s Bard on the Beach
Shakespeare Festival is celebrating its
25th anniversary with four productions
staged in repertory from June 11 to
September 20 in Vancouver’s scenic
Vanier Park. On the Mainstage, Dean
Paul Gibson directs A Midsummer Night’s
Dream (a re-imagining of Gibson’s
wildly successful 2006 production),
while The Tempest will be helmed
by Meg Roe, who also directed the
production at Bard in 2008. The smaller
Douglas Campbell Studio Stage tent
offers Cymbeline, directed by Anita
Rochon, alternating with Equivocation,
by Bill Cain, a political drama set in
Shakespearean England. Michael
Shamata directs Equivocation, a
co-production with Victoria, B.C.’s Belfry
Theatre.
The mission of a new Richmond,
Virginia company, Bard Unbound, is to
illuminate the fire of Shakespeare by
getting it off the page and off the stage,
through education and performance
in nontraditional spaces. Cynde Liffick
started by creating theme-based
performance pieces to tour to wineries
and breweries and partnered with
a local brewery, Hardywood Craft
Brewery, for premiere performances.
bardonthebeach.org
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www.facebook.com/bardunbound
Completing the Canon
In Seattle, the 2014 GreenStage summer
Shakespeare in the Park lineup will
include Love’s Labour’s Lost, directed
by Vince Brady, and Othello, directed
by Teresa Thuman. With Othello,
GreenStage will complete the canon,
having produced all of Shakespeare’s
traditional 37 plays, plus Cardenio and
The Two Noble Kinsmen. The Backyard
Bard program, featuring hour-long
versions of plays using just four actors,
will tour All’s Well That Ends Well and
The Comedy of Errors, both directed
by Mark Moser, to smaller parks in
the Seattle area. The shows all run
July 11-August 16.
greenstage.org
Vaudeville and Fascism
California’s Kingsmen Shakespeare
Festival is producing a vaudeville era
Twelfth Night, directed by Kevin P.
Kern, and Anthony and Cleopatra, set
in Egypt during the rise of fascism,
directed by John Slade. The season runs
June 27 to August 3 in Kingsmen Park
on the campus of California Lutheran
University in Thousand Oaks.
www.kingsmenshakespeare.org
Summer 2014
Silver Season Celebration
Marin Shakespeare Company kicks off
its 25th Silver Season with As You Like
It, July 11 to August 11 and continues
in repertory with Romeo and Juliet,
July 18 to September 28 and An Ideal
Husband, August 15 to September 27.
Performances are presented outdoors at
Forest Meadows Amphitheatre located
on the campus of Dominican University
of California in San Rafael, California.
www.marinshakespeare.org
The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey closed its 51st season with Pericles featuring Jon Barker in the title role battling a
knight (Clark Scott Carmichael) during Princess Thaisa’s birthday tournament. Photo by Jerry Dalia.
Tour the Way You Like It
A scene from Marin Shakespeare Company’s production of
The Spanish Tragedy, 2013. Photo by Eric Chazankin.
Critical Acclaim
On the heels of its critically acclaimed
2013 Season, for which The Washington
Post applauded The Shakespeare
Theatre of New Jersey as one of the few
“companies with classical traditions
that are not toeing a conventional line.”
The Theatre is announcing a 2014 Main
Stage season that includes The Tempest,
Henry VIII and Much Ado About Nothing
as well as George Bernard Shaw’s The
Devil’s Disciple, a new adaptation of
Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist and David
Davalos’ Wittenberg. The Outdoor Stage
features Moliere’s The Learned Ladies.
The 2014 Season begins in June and
continues through December, 2014.
ShakespeareNJ.org
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Actors From The London Stage (AFTLS),
an international program based at
Shakespeare at Notre Dame, launched
an eleven-week tour of As You Like It in
January, 2014. The cast, composed of
five AFTLS veterans from companies
such as the UK’s National Theatre
and Royal Shakespeare Company,
performed As You Like It and taught
in-class workshops during week-long
residencies at universities across the
nation. Host universities included
Vanderbilt, Texas A&M, Rice, Wyoming,
and Notre Dame. The final week
of the tour was staged during the
Shakespeare Association of America’s
annual conference in St. Louis before
an audience of more than 1,000
Shakespearean academics from around
the globe.
Tenor, directed by Jim Helsinger, and
Macbeth directed by Patrick Mulcahy, in
repertory. The Festival will close out the
season with Tina Packer’s Women of Will
from July 20 to August 3. For families,
the season will also include Cinderella
and Shakespeare for Kids.
www.pashakespeare.org
shakespeare.nd.edu
Pennsylvania Productions
Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival in
Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania will produce
its 23rd season this summer from May
30 to August 3, 2014. The season will
open with the musical Fiddler on the
Roof followed by Shakespeare’s The
Two Gentlemen of Verona. In July, PSF
will produce Ken Ludwig’s Lend Me a
Erin Partin (left) as Isabella and Blake Ellis as Angelo in
Measure for Measure at Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival,
2013. Photo by Lee A. Butz.
Summer 2014
Thomas Weaver in the title role of Harrisburg Shakespeare Festival’s 2013 Coriolanus, directed by J. Clark Nicholson. Photo by Brianna Dow.
Free Public Shakespeare
The San Francisco Shakespeare Festival
will perform The Taming of the Shrew for
its 2014 Free Shakespeare in the Park
production in five Bay Area public parks
from June 28 to September 21, 2014,
directed by Artistic Director Rebecca
J. Ennals. The 2014/15 Shakespeare on
Tour production will be As You Like It,
directed by Stephen Muterspaugh. The
show will tour to over 150 school and
community venues in California.
www.sfshakes.org
Rising Like a Phoenix
Thanks to the passionate response of
donors from Santa Cruz and beyond,
Shakespeare Play On (SPO) has
announced a two-play Shakespeare
season in 2014. Co-Artistic Director
Mike Ryan said, “When Shakespeare
Santa Cruz (SSC) was closed at the
end of the year, there was a prevailing
feeling that the community had not
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been given a voice in its fate. The
Shakespeare Mutiny
campaign of Shakespeare Play On has
Shakespeare Orange County’s 35th
given them that voice, and their answer
season will be the first under new
was definitive: this is a community that
Producing Artistic Director John Walcutt.
values the arts and
Plans are for a “Mutiny On
one that wants
The Bounty” A Midsummer
its Shakespeare
Night’s Dream, produced
Festival.” Mr. Ryan
in association with Garden
is Co-Artistic
Grove’s award-winning
Director with
Polynesian Dance Troupe,
former SSC
Hitia O Te Ra, and Romeo
Artistic Director
and Juliet, co-produced
Marco Barricelli
with the Vietnamese
who added,
American Arts and Letters
“We are, indeed,
Society. Rounding out
like a phoenix
the season are George M.
and, thanks to
Cohan’s The Tavern, the
Bridget Rue as Mistress Page, Rick Blunt as
this wonderful
Falstaff, and Stephanie Holladay Earl as
Antaeus Company’s Curse of
community, we will Mistress Ford in the American Shakespeare
Center’s The Merry Wives of Windsor.
Oedipus, The Troubadour’s
rise from the ashes Photo by Michael Bailey.
A Midsummer Night’s Fever
and continue to
Dream, the Backhaus-dance Company,
bring stunning professional theatre to
and Trieu Tran (unplugged with a
the area.” In 2014, As You Like It and The
concert version of his hit Uncle Ho
Merry Wives of Windsor will play from
To Uncle Sam). The season runs from
July 1 through August 10.
June 14 to September 20.
www.shakespeareplayon.net
Summer 2014
Shakespearean Snippets
What’s On Netflix
For Netflix subscribers, Shakespeare
offerings now include Michael Wood’s
series In Search of Shakespeare,
Ian McKellen’s Acting Shakespeare,
Shakespeare Behind Bars (featuring STA
former president Curt Tofteland), the
six-episode Shakespeare Undiscovered
series and more than a dozen other
titles. Newly added is the Ralph Fiennes
Coriolanus and Last Will & Testament
with Derek Jacobi and Vanessa
Redgrave, subtitled, “The Truth Behind
Shakespeare Could Rewrite History.”
http://dvd.netflix.com/SubGenreList/
Shakespeare/2296
Suiting the Action
Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST)
has released Chicago Shakespeare
Theater: Suiting the Action to the Word,
a collection of original essays that
furthers the study of Shakespeare in
performance and stagecraft through the
exploration of the theatre’s first twentyfive years.
Respected
scholars,
artists and
theater
critics view
Shakespeare
through the
lens of the
theater’s
artistry,
bringing together professional
observations and scholarly
examinations of CST Artistic Director
Barbara Gaines’s productions as well as
collaborations with world-renowned
directors who have worked at CST,
including Michael Bogdanov (The
Winter’s Tale in 2003); Edward Hall (Rose
Rage: Henry VI, Parts 1, 2, and 3 in 2004)
and Josie Rourke (The Taming of the
Shrew in 2010).
Saskatchewan, eh!
Canada’s Shakespeare on the
Saskatchewan has appointed Will
Brooks to the newly created position of
Artistic Producer. Mr. Brooks is formerly
the Artistic Associate at Persephone
Theatre and he succeeds Artistic/
Executive Director Mark von Eschen.
The theatre’s 30th season
includes Romeo and Juliet and
The Taming of the Shrew. www.
shakespeareonthesaskatchewan.com
Surfing the Bard
The Internet Shakespeare Editions
(ISE) is a non-profit scholarly website
publishing in three main areas:
Shakespeare’s plays and poems,
Shakespeare’s life and times and
Shakespeare in performance. Since
1996, the ISE website has been an
innovator in the field and friend of the
Shakespeare Theatre Association.
Aside from most useful production
research, calendars of upcoming
Shakespeare productions and
reviews of shows are available at
internetshakespeare.uvic.ca
Katie Marcel (left), Shakespeare’s Associates Managing
Director, Gary Armagnac, Shakespeare’s Associates
Associate Artist, Fred C. Adams, Founder of the Utah
Shakespeare Festival, and Beth Trutner, Shakespeare’s
Associates Board Chair at the 2014 STA Conference at The
Stratford Festival. Photo by Lisa Tromovitch.
Marcel Livermore
Shakespeare’s Associates, producers of
Livermore Shakespeare Festival in the
San Francisco Bay Area announces Katie
Marcel’s appointment as the company’s
first full-time Managing Director. Marcel
served as SA’s part-time Administrative
Director for over three years. Prior to SA,
she served as the Assistant Director of
the non-profit Livermore Downtown.
Livermore Shakespeare Festival’s 2014
season in the Concannon Vineyard runs
from June 19 - July 20 and includes
Much Ado About Nothing directed by
Lisa Tromovitch and Jane Austen’s Pride
and Prejudice adapted by Christina
Calvit and directed by Virginia Reed.
www.LivermoreShakes.org
www.chicagoshakes.com
Show art based on Herbert Siguenza’s original art for La Jolla Playhouse’s El Henry, a site-based adaptation of Shakespeare’s
Henry IV, Part One, written by and starring Culture Clash’s Herbert Siguenza, directed by San Diego Repertory Theatre
Artistic Director Sam Woodhouse and presented in association with San Diego Rep, June 14-29, 2014 in downtown San
Diego’s Makers Quarter. Image courtesy of La Jolla Playhouse.
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Summer 2014
A Look at Shakespeare Festivals Around the World
Jim DeVita and Tracy Michelle Arnold in American Players Theatre’s 2013 production
of Antony and Cleopatra: An Adaptation. Photo by Carissa Dixon.
Miles Villanueva (left) as Ferdinand, Jasmine
Sim as Miranda and Harold Dixon as Prospero in
Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival’s 2013 production
of The Tempest directed by Michael J. Arndt.
Photo by Brian Stethem.
The ensemble in Oregon Shakespeare’s production of The
Comedy of Errors. Photo by Jenny Graham.
Chesapeake Shakespeare is set to open its
new theatre on September 20, 2014.
Photo by Teresa Castracane.
Patrick Miller, Joannah Tincey and Jennifer Higham in the background
and Robert Mountford as Silvius and Dan Winter as Corin (seated) from
the Actors From The London Stage 2014 production of As You Like It
performed at the University of Notre Dame and presented at
campuses across the United States by Shakespeare at Notre Dame.
Directed by the five-member cast. Photo by Barbara Johnston.
Blythe Coons as Rosalind in
Maryland’s Chesapeake
Shakespeare’s production of
As You Like It, directed by
Robert Kilpatrick.
Photo by Teresa Castracane.
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Summer 2014
Jacob York (left) as Macbeth and Veronica Duerr as Lady Macbeth in the Atlanta Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse production of Macbeth, 2014. Photo by Jeff Watkins.
Editor: Jim Volz, President, Consultants for the
Arts and Professor, California State University,
Fullerton
Associate Editors: Bruce C. Lee,
Communications Director, Utah Shakespeare
Festival and Cindy Melby Phaneuf, University
of Nebraska, Omaha
Concept Designer: Danelle Cheney
Graphic Designer: Phil Hermansen,
Art Director, Utah Shakespeare Festival
Editorial Staff/Writers: Kenny Allen,
Nikki Allen Koontz, Evelyn Carol Case, Patrick
Flick, Jordan Kubat, Donna Law, Lindsay Lowy,
Caitlin Volz, Nicholas Volz Deadlines for quarto are October 1 and March 1.
Send Shakespeare News and Photographs to
Dr. Jim Volz, jvolz@fullerton.edu,
Telephone 657-278-3538.
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Phil Hermansen at hermansen@bard.org or
435-586-1974.
quarto is published for the international
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Theatre Association Member Organizations. For
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STA Statement of Purpose
The Shakespeare Theatre Association (STA)
was established to provide a forum for the
artistic, managerial, education leadership
for theatres primarily involved with the
production of the works of William
Shakespeare; to discuss issues and methods
of work, resources, and information; and to
act as an advocate for Shakespearean
productions and training.
This STA publication is produced in partnership
with: California State University, Fullerton and
the Utah Shakespeare Festival.
Front cover: Scott Bellis as Bottom in Bard on the
Beach’s 2014 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
in Vancouver. Photo by David and Emily Cooper.
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