FREE April 12-18: WILLPOWER 2010 – At The Montgomery College Rockville Campus

Posted on April 9, 2010 by Jamie

WillPower 2010

Well’ I almost missed this one, many Kudos go out to the WebMistress of the blog “Or What You Will” for passing this along! I can’t believe in all my web wanderings I didn’t catch this one.

WillPower 2010 at the Montgomery College Rockville Campus, a week long event of free lectures and classes focusing on Shakespeare Study’s. There are workshops  like “‘The Structure of Shakespeare’s Verse.” (Ms. Becky Kemper, Maryland Shakespeare Festival), and “‘Body Language: Translating Shakespeare’s Language into Movement.” (Ms. Katherine Long, Former Company Member of Synetic Theatre).

There will also be several performances of A Midsummers Night’s Dream performed by MC Students. The performance is $10, $8 for students. All other events are FREE.

I went to several of the events last year and found them very informative, and quite fun. So’ for the low, low price of FREE, if your looking for something to do next week, I would suggest popping down to Rockville for WillPower  2010.

April 12th to the 18th

Link: http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/willpower/ – Ignore the fact the page says 2009. The PDF Flyer and other doc’s say 2010

link: http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/willpower/WILLPOWER%202010.pdf

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FREE April 20: 10 years and going strong – Shakespeare’s Birthday at the Library of Congress

Posted on April 5, 2010 by Jamie

Hey – Shakespeare’s birthday is this month, and if this year is like last year, there will be lots of interesting things going on… And I’ll hear about them the day after they happen. Or maybe not. Just got an email for the Library of Congress event to add to the calendar.

On Tuesday, April 20, the popular celebration of Shakespeare’s birthday will take place at noon in the Whittall Pavilion in the Jefferson Building. Professional actors from the Academy of Classical Acting associated with the Shakespeare Theatre Company will recite monologues, act out scenes and engage in stage fighting. This is the 10th year “Shakespeare’s Birthday Reading” will be held.

Link: http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2010/10-011.html

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FREE this Saturday: Shakespeare and Galileo in Williamsburg VA.

Posted on March 26, 2010 by Jamie

Just got this one to pass on. Looks like some fun educational theater is going on in Williamsburg Virgina. But make your plans quick, it’s happening tomorrow. Here’s what they say on thier website:

Shakespeare and Galileo
Listen in on a hypothetical meeting between two brilliant individuals – William Shakespeare and Galileo Galilei – as they explore the relationship between art and science.

This live theatrical performance is presented by the The Carpenter Science Theatre Company, which brings science to life at the Science Museum of Virginia. Professional actors, directors, playwrights, designers and technicians combine their expertise to educate and entertain all ages with wonderful performances.

Free, no reservations needed

Saturday, March 27
11 a.m.
Kitzinger Community Room
James City County Library
7770 Croaker Road, Norge This program is made possible through a grant from the Friends of Williamsburg Regional

Link: http://www.wrl.org/programs/page9/page9.html

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CSC’s Pub Night Last Night: Shakespeare in Love, or for the Love of Shakespeare

Posted on March 11, 2010 by Jamie

Members of the Chesapeake Shakespeare staff with guest.

The  Chesapeake Shakespeare Company held their Pub Night at Bertucci’s restaurant in Columbia Maryland last night, and if you weren’t there you missed out on a great time. As the 25 or so people showed up, I could tell this was going to be interesting and fun, by the steady flow of handshakes that went out to each new person as they walked into the room. The setting was very intimate, being a small side dining room, where you had the comfortableness of facing the person in front of you, as opposed to going to a lecture hall for a discussion where your staring at the back of someone’s head.

At around 7:30 Jenny Leopold (Associate Director at CSC) started the evening with a brief introduction about the topic for the night, “Shakespeare in Love”, and then opened the floor. Now I’ve been to quite a few talk back’s and lectures after a play where the Actors and Director’s do a Q&A. These talk back’s are very informative, but the information is usually passed along in only one direction, from the artist to the audience.  But the pub night was surprisingly different as everyone had a chance to take the floor. The thoughts and idea’s flowed freely in all directions, one person’s conception, seemed to become the next person’s inspiration.

Patrick Kilpatrick in the CSC production of Hamlet - June 9th

The conversation drifted easily down the various avenues touching on “Love” in Shakespeare’s writing. From romantic love,  to brotherly love. From the  love of power, to the love of a child.  Many of these points emphasized with live readings from the plays and sonnets, from both the CSC staff, and anyone else who had something to share.

“Shakespeare in Love” turned out to be a fun and interesting theme to examine.  I have to admit I haven’t seen the movie “Shakespeare in Love”, and was relieved that it didn’t come up all night (with me being unprepared and all). But instead, I’m glad to say, it turned out to be a group of like-minded people enjoying dinner together, not only discussing Shakespeare in Love, but sharing their Love of Shakespeare.

http://www.chesapeakeshakespeare.com

Much ado about Nothing and Hamlet – Starting June 9th, 2010


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Shakespeares Birthday is Next Month: And theres always plenty going on. But where?

Posted on March 10, 2010 by Jamie

Last April there were quite a few happenings to celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday in our area. There was cake and music,  lectures and dramatic readings,  and generally fun stuff for the whole family, most of it free. The only bad thing about all these events going on, was the fact I didn’t hear about them till AFTER they happened!

The problem is that most of these events weren’t really advertised. And the ones that were, you had to hunt all over the internet to find. So consider the calendar at Maryland Shakespeare as a free public service. This year I’m gonna start looking early for the event’s so they can get t posted. If you know of any events let me know and I’ll get them on the calendar for everyone else.

(The “Shakespeare Calendar” is located towards top right of this web page)

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PUB NIGHT: Tomorrow (03/10) Hosted by The Chesapeake Shakespeare Company

Posted on March 9, 2010 by Jamie

Eduard von Grützner’s Portrait of Falstaff

The Chesapeake Shakespeare Company will be hosting a “Pub Night” in Columbia Maryland.  Which according to their web site:

“Pub Nights are informal discussion groups where we sit around a local establishment and discuss some aspect of Shakespeare or classical theatre. Led by CSC members and attended by both company members and members of the general public”

The theme is “Shakespeare in Love”. I know Shakespeare is considered one of  the greatest romantic writers of all times, but “Shakespeare in Love”, makes me think of his comedies such as Much Ado about Nothing, or the Taming of the Shrew, which are amazingly hilarious takes on the lighter side of love. Here’s how I had discribed one of my favorite comedies, Twelfth Night:

” Everyone’s in love with someone, but that someone’s in love with someone else. And if you happen to be a woman dressed as a man, that get’s really confusing.”

Of course there’s the famously romantic side of Shakespeare found in the Sonnets, and plays like  Romeo and Juliet where our lovers meet, dance, and fall in love, prompting me to write:

” I was dazzled by  the way the words seem to dance and flow across the page keeping time with the music that you could almost hear.”

I have yet to go to a Pub Night as hosted by The Chesapeake Shakespeare company, so I’m definitely looking forward to checking it out tomorrow.

Here’s the link with more information: http://chesapeakeshakespeare.com/pubnights.html

SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE
Hosted by CSC Associate Director Jenny Leopold
March 10, 2010 7:30 PM
Bertucci’s in Columbia, MD

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“Learning Shakespeare: A Layman’s Guide” updated with “Step 3) Watch the DVD”

Posted on March 3, 2010 by Jamie

Wow, creating  this “Laymans Guide” is taking more time then I thought it would. I had started Step 3 two days ago, had it typed up for the most part, then lost half of it and had to start over again.

I love watching Shakespeare on DVD, the section “Step 3″ describes the methods I use to track down the best versions to watch. I hope you find it helpful.

Heres the link: Learning Shakespeare: A Layman’s Guide

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FREE April 13th : Folger’s – Shakespeare Birthday Lecture: “Sensational Shakespeare”

Posted on April 12, 2009 by Jamie

Reactions to Shakespeare have varied from tears to rapture to outrage. Professor Russell Jackson looks at historical performances to explore how extreme staging and audience responses have produced “Sensational Shakespeare.”

April 13,   8pm at the Folger’s Elizabethan Theatre

See link for Details http://www.folger.edu/woSummary.cfm?woid=499

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April 13: FREE – Lincoln and Shakespeare at the Fords Theatre

Posted on April 7, 2009 by Jamie

abraham-lincoln-5-17-04-2-copyI accidentally stumbled on this while looking up something completely different, and is a good example of why I started this web page. Looks like the Fords theater in Washington DC is having a FREE 90 minute presentation about Lincoln and his love for Shakespeare. They will be presenting this with the help of the Shakespeare Theater Company featuring actor Andrew Long.

Now’ this sounds pretty cool if your into history (And Shakespeare)… The down side is all tickets are gone… So’ If ya happen to hear about more little happenings like this, let us know and I will post it here (And see ya there).
Jump the link for more info:  April 13: Lincoln and Shakespeare at the Fords Theatre

If nothing else I found my new favorite quote:

“It matters not to me whether Shakespeare be well or ill acted; with him the thought suffices.” Abraham Lincoln

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3/26 thru 3/29: DIGGING INTO SHAKESPEARE at the Roundhouse Theater in Silver Spring

Posted on March 25, 2009 by Jamie

Roundhouse Theater presents:

Digging Into Shakespeare
With Jon Spelman and Tina Chancey
Thursday, March 26 – Saturday, March 28 at 8pm;
 Sunday, March 29 at 3pm

A solo piece performed with musician Tina Chancey based on Spelman’s mostly disastrous experience with Shakespeare productions, his relationships with the actresses in them, and his encounters with nutty Shakespearian critics. Commissioned by the Clarice Smith Center at the University of Maryland. For ages 16 and up.

Jon Spelman’s work has been hailed around the country and the world as “world-class.” Two previous productions at Round House have been the premieres of Off the Map and Frankenstein. Learn more about him at jonspelman.org.

TICKETS: $15 ($12 for Round House subscribers, senior citizens, patrons under 25, and groups of 10 or more)*. Call 240.644.1100

Jump the link:

http://www.roundhousetheatre.org/performances/silver_spring_shows.php

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