Feb 282021
 

https://media.blubrry.com/stateofshakespeare/www.stateofshakespeare.com/TSS/Media/TenYears.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | TuneIn | RSS February 28, 2021 Jim and Gerritt celebrate ten years of The State of Shakespeare.  We listen to some of our most memorable guests from the early days of the podcast and share our favorite moments from the past decade.

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Dec 122020
 

http://media.blubrry.com/stateofshakespeare/www.stateofshakespeare.com/TSS/Media/SusanHeyward.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | TuneIn | RSS The Taming of the Shrew: Act 4, Scene 3KatherineDecember 13, 2020 As a young “bookworm,” she fell in love with Shakespeare’s intoxicating language.   But after an early career playing Shakespeare’s romantic ingenues, Susan Heyward began to wonder whether modern theatre’s

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Oct 212020
 

http://media.blubrry.com/stateofshakespeare/www.stateofshakespeare.com/TSS/Media/AndrewMuir.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | TuneIn | RSSAuthor and scholar Andrew Muir is fascinated with two poets: one “the greatest artist of all time” and another “the most important artist since the second World War.”  They may have more in common than mere verses can express.  His latest

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Sep 302020
 

http://media.blubrry.com/stateofshakespeare/www.stateofshakespeare.com/TSS/Media/MilanDragicevich.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | TuneIn | RSS Richard III: Act 1, Scene 2Richard, Duke of GloucesterSeptember 30, 2020 Words, words, words. Milan Dragicevich is fascinated by what he calls “the verbal surface” – a place where rhetoric lies and where you will take your voice to the

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Aug 252020
 

Before “quarantine” and “social distancing” and “Zoom” were household words we were just beginning to grasp the impact of the sudden shuttering of our theatres. Shirine shares her thoughts on how to survive the times, the production of Timon of Athens and shares Queen Margaret’s infamous speech from Henry VI, Part 3.

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Jun 302020
 

Before “quarantine” and “social distancing” and “Zoom” were household words we were just beginning to grasp the impact of the sudden shuttering of our theatres. Shirine shares her thoughts on how to survive the times, the production of Timon of Athens and shares Queen Margaret’s infamous speech from Henry VI, Part 3.

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May 312020
 

http://media.blubrry.com/stateofshakespeare/www.stateofshakespeare.com/TSS/Media/ScottNewstok.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | TuneIn | RSS How to Think Like ShakespeareMay 31, 2020 What can we learn about the state of modern education by taking a look back at how young pupils were schooled during Shakespeare’s day?   Our guest Scott Newstok shares some collected wisdom from

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Apr 162020
 

http://media.blubrry.com/stateofshakespeare/www.stateofshakespeare.com/TSS/Media/HassanJamal.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | TuneIn | RSS The L.A. Subway Shakespeare Project April 15, 2020 What do John Cassavettes, August Wilson and the Three Stooges have in common?  They all inspired Hassan Jamal to create the LA Subway Shakespeare Project.  Hassan films short Shakespeare scenes in and

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Feb 232020
 

http://media.blubrry.com/stateofshakespeare/www.stateofshakespeare.com/TSS/Media/DaveHitz.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | TuneIn | RSS The Play On! Project July 18, 2021 Kenneth Cavender said, translations are like lovers.  The faithful ones aren’t beautiful, the beautiful ones aren’t faithful. Dave Hitz is putting this quote to the test with his ambitious Play On! Project –

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Jan 292020
 

http://media.blubrry.com/stateofshakespeare/www.stateofshakespeare.com/TSS/Media/DaveHitzTranslations.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | TuneIn | RSSDave Hitz, co-founder of the Play On Project, has a very specific view when it comes to the idea of translation. Is the Play On Project a translation of Shakespeare? Full Interview coming soon!

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