{"id":2964,"date":"2013-09-09T12:33:22","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T16:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?p=2964"},"modified":"2022-10-14T16:33:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T20:33:42","slug":"lisa-wolpe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?p=2964","title":{"rendered":"Lisa Wolpe"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2787\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2964-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/stateofshakespeare\/www.stateofshakespeare.com\/TSS\/Media\/LisaWolpe.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/stateofshakespeare\/www.stateofshakespeare.com\/TSS\/Media\/LisaWolpe.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/stateofshakespeare\/www.stateofshakespeare.com\/TSS\/Media\/LisaWolpe.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/stateofshakespeare\/www.stateofshakespeare.com\/TSS\/Media\/LisaWolpe.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?powerpress_pinw=2964-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/stateofshakespeare\/www.stateofshakespeare.com\/TSS\/Media\/LisaWolpe.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"LisaWolpe.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/in\/podcast\/the-state-of-shakespeare\/id478609859?mt=2&amp;ls=1#episodeGuid=http%3A%2F%2Fstateofshakespeare.com%2F%3Fp%3D2964\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4sUrD1Xw2LZYxf8TUdXU7m\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Arts--Culture-Podcasts\/The-State-of-Shakespeare-p960444\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/music.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLWEywaKq6znUzOYmMa56pvQ5gozrgM6k5\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_youtube\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Youtube Music\" rel=\"nofollow\">Youtube Music<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:21% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"488\" height=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/image.png?resize=488%2C680&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6891 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/image.png?w=488&amp;ssl=1 488w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/image.png?resize=50%2C70&amp;ssl=1 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\" style=\"font-size:27px\"><strong>Hamlet;  Act 1, Scene 2<strong> <\/strong><br>Hamlet <br><strong>August 16, 2013<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"695\" height=\"464\" data-id=\"8470\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/LisaWolpeHeadshot-scaled-1.jpg?resize=695%2C464&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/LisaWolpeHeadshot-scaled-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/LisaWolpeHeadshot-scaled-1.jpg?resize=70%2C47&amp;ssl=1 70w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/LisaWolpeHeadshot-scaled-1.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/LisaWolpeHeadshot-scaled-1.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/LisaWolpeHeadshot-scaled-1.jpg?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/LisaWolpeHeadshot-scaled-1.jpg?w=1390&amp;ssl=1 1390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"192\" height=\"262\" data-id=\"8472\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Wolpe1.jpg?resize=192%2C262&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Wolpe1.jpg?w=192&amp;ssl=1 192w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Wolpe1.jpg?resize=51%2C70&amp;ssl=1 51w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"184\" height=\"274\" data-id=\"8471\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Wolpe2.jpg?resize=184%2C274&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Wolpe2.jpg?w=184&amp;ssl=1 184w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Wolpe2.jpg?resize=47%2C70&amp;ssl=1 47w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"324\" height=\"324\" data-id=\"8468\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/lrglogo-5.gif?resize=324%2C324&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8468\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Women playing men playing women playing men&#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=2951\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Lisa Wolpe: About the Artist\">Lisa Wolpe<\/a>, Founder and Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Women&#8217;s Shakespeare Company, talks about her life&#8217;s work.\u00a0 Carrying on a centuries old tradition, the LAWSC is celebrating it&#8217;s twentieth year.\u00a0 Delving into the &#8220;Oh that this too too solid flesh&#8230;&#8221; soliloquy, Lisa talks playing Hamlet, gender bending and what it&#8217;s like to be a &#8220;silverback.&#8221; \u00a0From a woman steeped in Shakespeare comes a deft dance of thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Click here to <a title=\"Hamlet Act I, Scene ii\" href=\"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=2994\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">follow along with the text<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Click here for a <a title=\"Scansion: Hamlet Act I, Scene ii\" href=\"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=3002\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scanned version of the text<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">SHOW INFO:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">An all-female, multi-cultural aesthetic offers new insight when the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.odysseytheatre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Odyssey Theatre Ensemble<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawsc.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Women\u2019s Shakespeare Company<\/a> co-present Hamlet in celebration of LAWSC\u2019s 20th anniversary. Featuring a cast of 16 LAWSC favorites and talented newcomers \u2013 including producing artistic director and celebrated Shakespearean actress Lisa Wolpe in the title role \u2013 Hamlet opens for press on Aug. 30 at the Odyssey Theatre in West L.A.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Performances of Hamlet take place on Fridays and Saturdays @ 8 p.m. and Sundays @ 2 p.m.*, Aug. 30 through Oct. 27. (*On Sunday, Sept. 1 only, the performance will be @ 5 p.m. with no 2 p.m. matinee.) Additional weeknight performances are scheduled on Wednesdays @ 8 p.m. on Sept. 18, Oct. 2 and Oct. 16; and on Thursdays @ 8 p.m. on Sept. 12, Sept. 26, Oct. 10 and Oct. 24. Tickets are $30, except for the performance on Saturday, August 31 which is $45 and includes a gala reception following the performance. The Odyssey Theatre is located at 2055 S. Sepulveda Blvd., West Los Angeles, 90025. For reservations and information, call (310) 477-2055 or go to <a href=\"www.OdysseyTheatre.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.OdysseyTheatre.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/stateofshakespeare\/www.stateofshakespeare.com\/TSS\/Media\/LisaWolpe.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | Youtube Music | RSS Hamlet; Act 1, Scene 2 Hamlet August 16, 2013 Women playing men playing women playing men&#8230;\u00a0 Lisa Wolpe, Founder and Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Women&#8217;s Shakespeare Company, talks about her life&#8217;s work.\u00a0 Carrying<\/p>\n <a href='https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?p=2964' class='excerpt-more-append'>[...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5,254],"tags":[96,20,53,458,459,68,467,473,463,466,471,32,218,62,17,217,465,152,476,474,462,475,26,40,31,457,456,460,161,242,25,22,95,33,44,464,143,468,16,472,14,470,469,24,27,66,71,461],"class_list":["post-2964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artists","category-interviews","category-podcasts","tag-acting","tag-actor","tag-actor-preparation","tag-boston-court","tag-boston-court-theater","tag-breath","tag-charlotte-cushman","tag-chastity-dotson","tag-claudius","tag-ellen-terry","tag-emma-stebbins","tag-first-folio","tag-gerritt-vandermeer","tag-hamlet","tag-iambic-pentameter","tag-jim-elliott","tag-juliet","tag-kristen-linklater","tag-lawsc","tag-lisa-wolpe","tag-lizzy-ingram","tag-los-angeles-womens-shakespeare-company","tag-making-choices","tag-metric-variation","tag-neil-freeman","tag-odyssey-theater","tag-odyssey-theater-ensemble","tag-oh-that-this-too-too-solid-flesh","tag-ophelia","tag-oregon-shakespeare-festival","tag-playable-moments","tag-playing-shakespeare","tag-preparation","tag-punctuation","tag-rhetoric","tag-romeo","tag-romeo-and-juliet","tag-sarah-bernhardt","tag-scansion","tag-scott-ashby","tag-shakespeare","tag-shakespeare-co","tag-shakespeare-and-company","tag-speaking-verse","tag-textual-clues","tag-the-state-of-shakespeare","tag-theater","tag-tina-packer","category-10-id","category-5-id","category-254-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-line-bottom","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Frfq-LO","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2964"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8474,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964\/revisions\/8474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}