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Shakespeare Productions & Education blending challenge, respect, emotion and bawd. Collaborations welcome.

12/01/2024

LADY MACDUFF
Wisdom - to leave his wife, to leave his babes,
His mansion, and his titles in a place
From whence himself does fly? He loves us not,
He wants the natural touch, for the poor wren,
The most diminutive of birds, will fight,
Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.
All is the fear and nothing is the love;
As little is the wisdom, where the flight
So runs against all reason.

The scene of Lady MacDuff, child, & Ross is a huge performance moment and challenge - as a director a scene I have both loved and feared! I have never directed it with a male child as per the script. I have employed a female child, partially because of doubling of cast, which has brought a unique quality to the child’s sass and spirit; or deleted the child altogether, which has turned a painful and amazing spotlight on the strength in fragility of Lady MacDuff.

I would love to hear your experience of this scene - there is no right or wrong - and how it lived and spoke first you.

📸 as Lady MacDuff & as Child in production i directed for

17/10/2023

Directing MacBeth. Unless you respect 11th C MacBeth, you produce a play that makes a villain of Lady MacBeth, and forgives MacBeth. Respectful debate encouraged.

Poster by Oregon Shakespeare Festival. 💚 the raven.

03/09/2023

FLAVIUS:
O my good lord, the world is but a word.
Were it all yours to give it in a breath,
How quickly were it gone.”
Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare 📸 not attributed- happy to correct.

My young students at Raw Drama are prepping for showcase & 2 brave travellers have found wonderful balance to this hard-as-hell, half -finished piece. I’m really looking forward to seeing how they finish it off!

28/07/2023

LUCIANUS.
Thoughts blacke, hands apt,
Drugges fit, and Time agreeing:
Confederate season, else, no Creature seeing:
Thou mixture ranke, of Midnight Weeds collected,
With Hecats Ban, thrice blasted, thrice infected,
Thy naturall Magicke, and dire propertie,
On wholesome life, usurpe immediately.

The poisoner from brought brilliantly to life by the talented actor Aarod Vawser.

08/07/2023

“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death.

Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more:

it is a tale told by an idiot,
full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”
MacBeth.

Such brilliant words & such an amazing character- one of my favourites to study & perform. A very complex piece, but so rewarding.

04/07/2023

“Alack, why am I sent for to a king before I have shook off the regal thoughts wherein I reigned? I hardly yet have learned to insinuate, flatter, now, and bend my knee. Give sorrow leave awhile to tutor me to this submission.” Richard II.

Loved supporting my students on stage for brilliant term-end student performance of this speech of Richard II. Lucky to do what I do!

29/06/2023

RICHARD II
Yet I well remember the favours of these men. Were they not mine? Did they not sometimes cry “All Hail” to me?

So Judas did to Christ, but He in twelve found truth in all but one;
I, in twelve thousand, none.

God save the King! Will no man say “amen”?
Am I both priest and clerk? Well, then, amen.

God save the King, although I be not he,
And yet amen, if heaven do not think him me.

RII is so rich with beautiful phases and capturing of this unique soul. Loving watching my current students working with this, and the contrasting Bolingbroke.

17/06/2023

KRII IV:i
King Richard. Give me the crown.

What a beautiful scene! Allocating this to a student for showcase and can’t help@but think it is a performers gift!

10/06/2023

CLAUDIS
Sweet Gertrude, leave us two, for we have closely sent for Hamlet hither, that she, as ‘twere by accident, May here affront Ophelia. Her father and myself, we’ll so bestow ourselves that, seeing unseen, we may of their encounter frankly judge, and gather by Hamlet, as she is behaved, if ‘it be the affliction of her love or no that this she suffers for.

Always loved this moment as Claudis, my Hamlet being a talented actress.

16/05/2023

‘The Taming of the Shrew’. A play that constantly torments & challenges me. It is unforgivingly traumatic but as a rule we try to forgive it, finding the wonderful passages, and looking for the comedy. But it is dark & brutal.

I’m guilty of that. I’ve trawled the meanest corners of it, but still played elsewhere for laughs.

Would we perform it the same, if it was not the work of Shakespeare?

📸 .redelinghuys broken as an amazing Katherine, as Petruchio taken by a wonderful artist in the wings,

15/05/2023

“These are the forgeries of jealousie,
And never since the middle Summers spring
Met we on hil, in dale, forrest, or mead,
By paved fountaine, or by rushie brooke,
Or in the beached margent of the sea,
To dance our ringlets to the whistling Winde,
But with thy braules thou hast disturb’d our sport.”
Titania, A Midsommer nights Dreame, First Folio, II:i
Really have to love the Fairy Queen’s style! Such a beautiful piece to perform!
📸 as Titania, .redelinghuys as Peaseblossom

07/05/2023

How do I like my Shakespeare? Traditionally respectfully, but told with a modern sensibility. Something to reach today’s audience but not disrespecting them that they cannot appreciate historical times. Something that makes new converts but runs the risk of annoying pedants.
📸 photoshoot for Raw Shakespeare Project by of model

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