The Desperate ShaXpere Co.

02/14/2015

We're going to try it again, folks, planning is going on. It won't be Henry V, but...there's motion in the background!

12/04/2014

We're aiming at 2015. Never say never!

06/21/2014

Folks it's been a roller-coaster spring, but despite setbacks the DSC still exists, and will have news to report in due course. Keep us in mind until then!

04/14/2014

Many, many thanks to everyone who voiced support, both moral, practical AND financial, at today's Shakespeare Society "Annual Shakespeare's Birthday" event in La Jolla! The DSC received its first promise of donation, and a pledge to help us network our cause. Euston, we have lift off!

04/12/2014

Military Kingship 101.

04/12/2014

Military Kingship 101. (Created for this production!)

http://kpc.am/1evgIlt

Poster created with the Keep Calm-o-matic

04/11/2014

Today's DSC News-bulletin:

Henry V is now fully cast, and set to begin initial readings and table-work! "Follow! Follow! Grapple your minds to sternage of THIS navy!" (Henry V, 3.0.17)

04/08/2014

Pictures in and around the Zorro Gardens theatrical space.

04/07/2014

Was there any role he couldn't -or wouldn't - do? From Puck to Andy Hardy, from the Twilight Zone to an elderly man with Down's Syndrome, Orson Welles called him the greatest actor America has ever produced. Whatever your opinion, his star remains undimmed. Surely this clip is his most appropriate epitaph. RIP, Mickey Rooney.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTeQDMfq8Gw

A Midsummer Night's Dream 1935 End Scene Oberon & Titania, with all their Train. Puck "If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That y...

04/06/2014

'e leaves a coople owt, but it's nowt bad a'tall! What dost thou think o'that then, ee bah goom?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8mzWkuOxz8

04/04/2014

Todays DSC News:

The DSC will participate on Sunday, April 13th, 2-4 pm at a Members and Guests only ANNUAL SHAKESPEARE BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION at a private La Jolla residence & outdoor Folly Theatre. The special event & program, celebrating the Bard's 450th Anniversary, will be emceed by Dave Scott of K**I. This will be an ideal opportunity to present the idea of the DSC to a community of Shakespearian enthusiasts and connoisseurs. We are honored to have been invited, even in advance of our first production. Wish us luck!

04/02/2014

Today's DSC News:

~ Having reached our first 30 Likes for the DSC, we can now view the "Page Insights" panel associated with this page! Thank you one and all.

~ We added another cast member, and two DSC production meetings were held, one in Banker's Hill, and another in Balboa Park.

~ Also, a visit to Zorro Gardens reveals that tree-trimming has begun in preparation for the Garden Theater Festival!