Shakespeare In Action

Founded in 1988 - Shakespeare In Action is a nonprofit, multi racial theatre company that aspires to enchance arts and education through exploring and performing Shakespeares plays.  We are dedicated to fostering literacy and enchancing creativty by making Shakespeares works accessible and relevant to young audiences.  We are located in Toronto, Ontario.

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Check out our Artist Feature with our #ShakespeareForKidsCamp Director Aris! 🎭🎟 In our exclusive interview, we dig deep into our actor-educators methods, backgrounds and passions. Link to our blog in bio! #shakespeareinaction #torontotheatre #shakespeareforkidscamp #artisteducators (at Toronto, Ontario)

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Hamlet is supposed to be the post-modern play, the play of our historical moment…but the situation Desdemona and Emilia face—damned if you do, damned if you don’t, damned if someone says you did, damned if you misplace your handkerchief—resonates with me far more than Hamlet’s more generalized angst. At its heart Othello is not a play about sexual jealousy; Othello is a play about control, and what happens to women who resist or subvert that control. Othello is the play of UC Santa Barbara and George Sodini’s LA Fitness and the Milford, Connecticut high school where Maren Sanchez was stabbed before her prom. In that sense, Othello is also a play for every woman who has ever been told to ‘just stay away from men.’

‘yet I’ll speak’: othello’s emilia, a rebuke to female silence, caitlin keefe moran (via shakespeareismyjam)

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The Merchant of Venice on tour: Production images

Our touring production of The Merchant of Venice opened last weekend at Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse.

Starring Jonathan Pryce as Shylock, and directed by Jonathan Munby, this revival of our thrilling 2015 production sees Shakespeare dramatise the competing claims of tolerance and intolerance, justice and mercy.

Touring to venues in the UK, USA & China, Saturday 9 July - Saturday 15 October. For info & tickets.

Part of our Wonder Season.

Photos © Marc Brenner

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SO THAT PERSON BEHIND GOOGLE TRANSLATE SINGS DOES MORE THINGS

AND I AM DEAD

(and decomposing)

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Shakespeare + tragedies

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream (BBC Radio 3)

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The fandom isn’t ready. Oh man oh man.

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Hey team! Here is a pretty big fluid acrylic and ink painting I did for an upcoming Gallery1988 show. The show is art about movies from 20 years ago. I was going to to a different movie until for some reason I zagged and did this. First legit painting in forever.  Scary stuff that, but fun too as well.

I’ll post again when the show goes and it is available for purchase.

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And therefore as a stranger give it welcome.There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. But come,Here, as before, never, so help you mercy,How strange or odd soe'er I bear myself(As I perchance hereafter shall think meet to put an antic disposition on),

link to Nt live to find a venue near you

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“Antony and Cleopatra” by William Shakespeare

National Theatre, 1998

Starring Alan Rickman & Helen Mirren

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29 June 1613: #OnThisDay

On this day in 1613, the Globe Theatre burnt to the ground during a performance of Shakespeare’s Henry VIII. Here’s an eye-witness account of the fire is given by Sir Henry Wotton, in a letter dated July 2, 1613:

“… I will entertain you at the present with what happened this week at the Banks side. The King’s players had a new play called All is True, representing some principal pieces of the reign of Henry the Eighth, which set forth with many extraordinary circumstances of pomp and majesty even to the matting of the stage; the knights of the order with their Georges and Garter, the guards with their embroidered coats, and the like: sufficient in truth within awhile to make greatness very familiar, if not ridiculous. Now King Henry making a Masque at the Cardinal Wolsey’s house, and certain cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the paper or other stuff, wherewith one of them was stopped, did light on the thatch, where being thought at first but idle smoak, and their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled inwardly, and ran round like a train, consuming within less than an hour the whole house to the very ground. This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabrick, wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw, and a few forsaken cloaks; only one man had his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broyled him, if he had not by the benefit of a provident wit, put it out with a bottle of ale.”

Learn more about the history of the Globe with our Exhibition & Tour.

(Image: taken from The Long View of London by Wenceslaus Hollar, 1647)

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a midsummer night’s dream aesthetic

(more here)

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Sonnet LXVIII

Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn,

When beauty lived and died as flowers do now,

Before these bastard signs of fair were born,

Or durst inhabit on a living brow ;

Before the golden tresses of the dead,

The right of sepulchers, were shorn away

To live a second life on second head,

Ere beauty’s dead fleece made another gay.

In him those holy antique hours are seen,

Without all ornament, itself and true,

Making no summer of another’s green,

Robbing no old to dress his beauty new ;

And him as for a map doth Nature store,

To show false art what beauty was of yore.

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Gives me life

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