UCT Shakespeare

The Utah Children's Theatre's Shakespeare Festival

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The #Inktober Day 24 prompt is BLIND. The quote kind of picks itself. #inktober2017 #Shakespeare #kinglear #stickfigure #staedtler #indexcard

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Petruchio and Katherina in the 2016 UCT Shakespeare Festival production of The Taming of the Shrew, which runs until October 1.

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Prince Hal/King Henry V in the 5th annual UCT Shakespeare Festival, which runs until Oct 1, 2016.

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Harold the Herald and his trusty canine companion. These marionettes were built by one of our artists for the free puppet shows that we put on every Saturday until September 26, 2015 as part of the Utah Children’s Theatre’s Shakespeare Festival.

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Oberon and Puck in the 2014 UCT Shakespeare Festival production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

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Fortunes fool, indeed.

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The 2016 UCT Shakespeare Festival production of Breakfast with Shakespeare, which opens on August 20, features a running gag dealing with this same piece of vital information, and Romeo’s failure to get the message.

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Getting a new series of posters ready for the @uctheatre. I love being a part of sharing Shakespeare with a new generation. #shakespeare #madewithwacom #digitalart #drawing #illustration #poster

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Artist David Habben is designing our 2016 UCT Shakespeare Festival posters. He has done wonderful work for us the last two years, and his poster for our 2015 production of Hamlet was featured in the New York Times.

[goodticklebrain]

OK, let’s get this scene-by-scene retelling of Macbeth underway! I set you up with the dramatis personae on Tuesday, so it’s time to plunge right into the first scene: 

In case you don’t know, Macbeth  is supposed to be cursed. It’s supposed to be bad luck to say “Macbeth”, especially in a theatre. As someone who is primarily an audience member (as opposed to an actor or other theatre professional) I haven’t developed the reflexive habit of automatically substituting “The Scottish Play” or “Mackers” for the offending title.  I’m trying to train myself to do so, however, so I don’t unintentionally freak anyone out.

I’ll let Edmund Blackadder take it from here…

Tune in next week for some more Scottish Play antics!

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The trailer for our 2015 UCT Shakespeare Festival, which ended on September 26. See you all next year!

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Harold the Herald sings to put a dragon to sleep in one of the three marionette shows created for the 2015 UCT Shakespeare Festival.

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Pages from the UCT Shakespeare Festival’s 2015 yearbook, with contributions from the cast and crew.

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Pages from the UCT Shakespeare Festival’s 2015 yearbook, with contributions from the cast and crew.

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Pages from the UCT Shakespeare Festival’s 2015 yearbook, with contributions from the cast and crew.

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The poster for the UCT Shakespeare Festival’s current production of Hamlet is featured in an article in the New York Times! 

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Poster for the 2013 UCT Shakespeare Festival.

[jstor]

We are happy to announce that Understanding Shakespeare now has all 38 of the bard’s plays!

Understanding Shakespeare is a collaboration between JSTOR Labs and Folger Shakespeare Library that links plays to the research on them. Pick a play. Click a line. Read an article. It’s that easy! 

 Check it out here. 

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Scenes from Hamlet at the 2015 UCT Shakespeare Festival, which runs through September 26, 2015.

Polonius and Ophelia. Horatio and Hamlet.