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Comment by Joe Griffin on January 31, 2010 at 6:43pm

Steve,

Have fun with Measure For Measure! I did a production of it last year and had a great time.

Comment by Trevor Long on January 31, 2010 at 4:04pm

Shameless plug time: Our co-production with The Acting Company Romeo & Juliet is closing at the Guthrie tonight 1/31 and will be going from here to points all around the country. Be sure to look it up. If you are in the Twin Cities area and want to catch Macbeth, come to the Guthrie from now until April 3rd. 2nd Preview is tonight and if the first audience was any indication we're in for a great run.

Comment by MsDirector on January 31, 2010 at 1:20pm

Hey Jeremy! I've already signed onto The Shakespeare Standard and set up my social profile there. It is a great Shakespeare resource - with some fascinating members as well. Everyone please stop by and say hello if you decide to join us there. ~ Arlene

Comment by Steve Burch on January 31, 2010 at 9:07am

Our group, Rude Mechanicals in Tuscaloosa, AL, is offering Measure for Measure this coming May to open our 8th season pf free Shakespeare in the Park. It's a tough one but I hope worth it.

Comment by Jeremy Fiebig on January 31, 2010 at 8:37am

Interested Shakespeare folks,

I'm running a website called The Shakespeare Standard (http://theshakespearestandard.com). Loads of Shakespeare news and features -- plus you can share your own stories, pictures, reviews, press... enjoy.

Comment by Mattie Roquel Rydalch on January 30, 2010 at 9:33pm

Thank you so much, Carol! Such a great translation of it. This means a lot to me. :)

Comment by Carol Jones on January 30, 2010 at 3:53pm

Hooray for Shakespearean sword babes! Keep it up and you'll never get old, or fat! Best wishes to you!

Comment by MsDirector on January 30, 2010 at 3:38pm

It sounds great, Carol. Woodward Shakespeare is, indeed, a outdoor summer Festival. They do 2 Shakespeare plays a season each running about 5 weekends. However, I live in the NJ/NYC area. They had hired me as a guest director in the 2008 season. I hope to be able to return to direct there again. They also do readings throughout the year of various Shakespeare plays. They call themselves a community-based group as many of their players are local and non-professional. But they do get some wonderful people in from the area college theatre programs and a few professionals as well. A young Hamlet is wonderful but certainly experience, training and stamina are a huge help in the role which is why it's so often played by 40 year olds and even older. My Hamlet was an amazing young actor, about 28 at the time, not quite the "traditional" leading man type Hamlet - shorter, slim and with a wonderfully frenetic energy, a beautiful command of the language, and a truly multi-layered psychological depth to his performance - exactly what I was looking for. We had a decent fight director, but my Hamlet, Laertes and I really worked out the nuances of the duel together. I've added to my expertise since then - this past summer (at age 62 - short, fat and totally out of shape) I took a terrific 5 day stage combat intensive course. Had a great time, learned a huge amount and can now contribute much more fully to the next duel I stage!

Comment by Carol Jones on January 30, 2010 at 3:15pm

Ms Director:
Ha! Tony has made William promise to do the role for him at some point in the future and I am looking forward to it. Will is only 17, and additional life experience will only enrich the portrayal. The cut of the play was just under two and a half hours, but the cuts were mostly to other roles--all of the main soliloquies remained intact. It was the funniest Hamlet I have ever seen, Will just caught the mercurial nature of the word play, and how very very clever Hamlet is. It just seems a shame that he did all that work, and only performed the role in its entirety five times.
I'm glad to hear that there is a Woodward Shakespeare Festival! Is it community, educational, professional, or a combination? Fresno is not that far away, and it would be great to come and see your work. Is is only a summer festival?
I adore Hamlet as well. I am just grateful that the school recorded the best performance, so that I can watch it again, and again. I have shown the final sword fight at least five times to my reading classes, just to introduce them to the concept of live Shakespeare (I'm an ESL teacher in the LAUSD for my day job, and an actress on the weekends). It's a kickass fight, if I do say so myself (I am listed as the official "fight choreographer" although Will and his partner worked out many of the beats themselves), and the fact that many of my children sit, rapt, for the five or so minutes it takes to play the scene, I consider a victory for the Shakespeare cause.

Comment by Carol Jones on January 30, 2010 at 2:52pm

Mattie: Regarding Sonnet XVIII
If you wish to break off your relationship with me
And make others think less of me because of it,
I will agree with you in front of others,
And tell them you speak the truth, even if you lie.
Because I know my own foibles better than anyone,
for your sake I can tell tales about myself
Of bad things that I have done, that until now I have hidden,
So that in breaking off with me, you will be accounted a saint:
And I will gain by this too;
For, because I love you,
the bad things that I say about myself,
Even though they hurt me, will benefit me.
Because I love you, and I belong to you,
To make you seem perfect, I will wrong myself.

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