The Fern Shakespeare Company

06/13/2022

We are so unbelievably saddened to hear of the passing of the beautiful soul, Candace Mabry Gandhi. She was an amazing person and a wonderful artist. She left this plane far too soon but her light will shine on.

We had the absolute pleasure of working with her in our 2015 Atlanta production Romeo & Juliet as Lady Capulet. She was one in a million - 'Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince(ss), And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.'

01/29/2021

The Fern is not currently producing due to the pandemic.

We hope to continue production, if it is safe, in 2022 in Atlanta, GA.

05/28/2020

to that time that Regan and Lear were doing a ritual while looking badass!

05/27/2020

“O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes!” - Orlando (As You Like It, Act V scene ii)

05/26/2020

Closet scene! Arras! Stabbing! Dead body! Ghost! But not the ghost of the just-stabbed guy! Another ghost! Look, never mind, let’s just get on with it…

05/26/2020

Here's one we don't get to see often! Act 3, Scene 2 | The Winter's Tale | Royal Shakespeare Company - YouTube

Watch Act 3, Scene 2 of our production of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, directed by Lucy Bailey, with Tara Fitzgerald as Hermione, Jo Stone-Fewings as Leo...

05/25/2020

Henry Clay Folger paid a world record price for a book—not once, but twice—as he became the world's leading collector of Shakespeare First Folios. In this episode, economist and author Andrea Mays ta

05/25/2020

“There is a history in all men’s lives,
Figuring the nature of the times deceased;
The which observed, a man may prophesy,
With a near aim, of the main chance of things
As yet not come to life, which in their seeds
And weak beginnings lie intreasured.” - Warwick (Henry IV Part 2, Act III scene i)

05/24/2020

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Mar 26, 2018 - "Comparing your relationship to Romeo and Juliet to express how in love you are is kind of like using Hamlet to demonstrate how close and well adjusted your family is."

05/21/2020

to that time that Hamlet was beating Laerties and Laerties was all like, 'Wait, I'm supposed to be all vengeancey right now, not you!'

05/20/2020

“All yet seems well; and if it end so meet,
The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.” - King (All’s Well That Ends Well, Act V scene iii)

05/20/2020

Archive interview by Robin Askew