As I mentioned in my post, “Oh, to Be in England” on May 3, Shakespeare’s Globe is presenting a marathon of 37 plays with acting companies from around the world. But if you can’t get to the Globe to Globe Festival, there is now an alternative. A UK site called The Space is running full-length videos of them [...]
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The Globe to Globe Festival on Your Computer
Posted in Midsummer, Richard III, Uncategorized, videos, tagged Globe, London, Measure for Measure, Midsummer, movies, Richard III, Shakespeare, theater, Twelfth Night, video on 05/22/2012 | 3 Comments »
NaNoWriMo – Exploring Possibilities
Posted in Activity Idea, Humanities Education, Midsummer, Shakespeare Lit on 11/03/2011 | 5 Comments »
November has been “National Novel Writing Month,” since 1999, and it’s still gaining ground. The concept is that every day in November is spent working on a rough draft of a full-length novel – producing about 1699 words per day. It’s intense, but the site above offers pep talks, word count badges, and other incentives [...]
One Week in Haiti: The End
Posted in Acting, introducing Shakespeare, Midsummer, Performance, Teaching on 03/29/2011 | Leave a Comment »
~by Emily Marquet For the rest of this adventure, please see these posts! Day 1 Day 2 Days 3 & 4 Day 5: WE’RE DOING IT! Our actors, naturally, were completely unfazed by the request to perform twice. After the morning assembly, the actors reported to the “stage”- the front basketball court of the school [...]
One Week in Haiti: Days 3 & 4
Posted in Acting, introducing Shakespeare, Midsummer, Performance, Teaching on 03/22/2011 | 1 Comment »
~ by Emily Marquet (previous entries on this adventure are on the blog! Click for DAY 1 and DAY 2!) Day 3 & 4: Sassy Fairies & Clowning Wednesday’s goal was to block the second half of the play. We nearly succeeded. Some scenes took longer than others to block and some characters (like Puck [...]
One Week in Haiti: Day 2
Posted in Acting, introducing Shakespeare, Midsummer, Performance, Teaching, Uncategorized on 03/15/2011 | 3 Comments »
~ by Emily Marquet (if you missed the beginning of Emily’s adventure, click HERE) Day 2: En Kreyol… S’il Vous Plait It was discussed and decided as a cast on the second day of rehearsal that most of the play would be told in Kreyol. We determined that it was more important to tell the story [...]
One Week in Haiti, Day 1.
Posted in Acting, introducing Shakespeare, Midsummer, Performance, Teaching on 03/10/2011 | 5 Comments »
~ by Emily Marquet The Objective: To mount a production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Louverture Cleary School in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. In four days. The Obstacle: We (the directors as well as the script bearers/ costumers) had just missed our flight. Sitting at the bar of an airport restaurant armed with a [...]
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