Jan 222024
 

https://media.blubrry.com/stateofshakespeare/www.stateofshakespeare.com/TSS/Media/StevenMarzolf.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | Youtube Music | RSS The Tempest; Act 4, Scene 1 ProsperoJanuary 16, 2024 To the uninitiated, northwest Arkansas may sound like an unlikely paradise for an actor.  But as Shakespeare’s Prospero shows us, magic is found where you choose to make it. 

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Nov 272023
 

https://media.blubrry.com/stateofshakespeare/www.stateofshakespeare.com/TSS/Media/ElenaHollenbeak.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | Youtube Music | RSS Macbeth; Act 5, Scene 1 Lady MacbethNovember 21, 2023 Elena Hollenbeak is the winner of the 2023 English-Speaking Union National Shakespeare Competition.  We spoke with the talented Ms. Hollenbeak and her mentor, Dr. Lyn Ackerman, about this year’s

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Oct 302023
 

https://media.blubrry.com/stateofshakespeare/www.stateofshakespeare.com/TSS/Media/SaraTopham.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | Youtube Music | RSS Romeo & Juliet; Act 3, Scene 2 JulietOctober 24, 2023 Canadian actor Sara Topham met Shakespeare’s Juliet when she was just seventeen and facing the premature overthrow of a promising career.  This could be a story about

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Sep 292023
 

https://media.blubrry.com/stateofshakespeare/www.stateofshakespeare.com/TSS/Media/MarquisGibson.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | Youtube Music | RSS Hamlet; Act 2, Scene 2 HamletSeptember 29, 2023 Marquis D. Gibson‘s Broadway debut was as sudden as it was spectacular. Appearing in the Hamlet inspired Fat Ham, Marquis played the Hamlet character wrestling with a lot of

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Aug 292023
 

https://media.blubrry.com/stateofshakespeare/www.stateofshakespeare.com/TSS/Media/AndrewDunn.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | Youtube Music | RSS Unrehearsed: A Midsummer Night’s Dream The Barefoot Shakespeare CompanyAugust 29, 2023 Memorizing lines comes quickly for Andrew J. Dunn. Putting the fun back in theater is what he is all about, which is why he agreed to

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Jul 122023
 

https://media.blubrry.com/stateofshakespeare/www.stateofshakespeare.com/TSS/Media/AmandaDehnert.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | Youtube Music | RSS Love’s Labor’s Lost The Hudson Valley Shakespeare FestivalJuly 12, 2023 Ask Amanda Dehnert what she does for a living, and she’ll laughingly say she “imagines things.”  As a visionary theatre creator, she has worked with some of

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May 262023
 

https://media.blubrry.com/stateofshakespeare/www.stateofshakespeare.com/TSS/Media/DakinMatthews.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | Youtube Music | RSS Hamlet; Act 2, Scene 2 HamletMay 26, 2023 When it comes to Shakespeare’s secrets, “meaning” and “sense” stand separate, yet actors must master both. So asserts Dakin Matthews: actor extraordinaire, seasoned stage savant of 250+ productions, and

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Mar 242023
 

https://media.blubrry.com/stateofshakespeare/www.stateofshakespeare.com/TSS/Media/MiriamLaube.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | Youtube Music | RSS The Winter’s Tale; Act 3, Scene 2 HermioneMarch 23, 2023 For Miriam Laube, 16 is a magic number. 16 years at Oregon Shakespeare Festival and 16 years away from court in Winter’s Tale (for her featured character,

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Feb 282023
 

https://media.blubrry.com/stateofshakespeare/www.stateofshakespeare.com/TSS/Media/ChukwudiIwuji.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | Youtube Music | RSS Hamlet; Act 3, Scene 1 HamletFebruary 28, 2023 Drop in!   All Chukwudi Iwuji needs is the language, how the words resonate in him, their sounds and meanings and rhythms. Using these, how is he affecting the listener?  When you

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Jan 282023
 

https://media.blubrry.com/stateofshakespeare/www.stateofshakespeare.com/TSS/Media/IanGould.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | Youtube Music | RSS Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act 4, Scene 1 BottomJanuary 27, 2023 What does it mean to be “smartly stupid,” and how might this approach help an actor reveal delightfully unexpected moments in well-worn texts?  Ian Gould credits his

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