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Tag: Shakespeare Santa Cruz Fri, March 19, 2010

• The Show Goes On

  Oct 14, 2009, by Staff News
  

  “Perseverance, dear my lord, keeps honor bright,” wrote William Shakespeare in Troilus and Cressida, and it is a lesson that’s been taken to heart. Despite the perfect storm of financial difficulties faced by Shakespeare Santa Cruz and UCSC, the company’s artistic director, Marco Barricelli, and UC Santa Cruz Dean of the Arts David Yager have decided that the company will carry out its 29th season.

• Shakespeare Santa Cruz Ponders Future

  Oct 13, 2009, by Staff News

  “To be or not to be, that is the question” facing Shakespeare Santa Cruz today, as the theater company decides whether to continue its 28-year run.

• Politics Rule in Shakespeare Santa Cruz’s ‘Julius Caesar’

  Aug 14, 2009, by Christina Waters Community
  

  An Elizabethan playwright shed light upon a political coup carried out 1500 years earlier and in a few deft strokes illuminated both the English language and the politics of the moment. The man was William Shakespeare, and the words fueled a high-stakes drama called Julius Caesar.

• Ten Questions for Mike Ryan

  Aug 02, 2009, by Staff Community
  

  Shakespeare Santa Cruz veteran Mike Ryan hates hulking vehicles in oncoming traffic, thinks he’d make a good spy and is reading Robinson Crusoe. But wait! There’s more.

• ‘Shipwrecked’: Shakespeare Santa Cruz’s Entertainment

  Aug 01, 2009, by Curtis Cartier Community
  

  They say truth is often stranger than fiction. But in a tale told by master raconteur Louis de Rougemont, both fact and fantasy have their place. Explorer, seaman, survivalist and con artist, de Rougemont, as played by seasoned television and stage actor Dierk Torsek, spins his greatest yarn ever in Shakespeare Santa Cruz’s production of Shipwrecked! An Entertainment: The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougement (As Told By Himself).

• Shakespeare Santa Cruz Glows in ‘Midsummer’

  Jul 30, 2009, by Christina Waters Community
  

  Rarely has such a tortured plot been so clearly articulated. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, one of Shakespeare’s most popular offerings, explores the elaborate mistaken-identity twists that Elizabethan audiences adored. Three mortal couples—Duke Theseus of Athens and his Amazon bride-to-be, plus two sets of love-struck (but not with each other) mortals—find themselves in a wooded dreamscape rife with fairy mischief. In bravura fashion, Shakespeare adds yet another layer of play-within-a-play complexity in a sextet of rough Athenian workmen rehearsing a play they intend to perform in honor of the Duke’s upcoming wedding. Meanwhile, Titania and Oberon, king and queen of the fairies, are quarrelling over custody of a pretty Indian baby.

• Even Shakespeare Takes a Hit in a Bad Economy

  Jul 23, 2009, by Staff News

  “He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends,” Shakespeare wrote in As You Like It,, and while Shakespeare Santa Cruz may have rich content, it is still wanting for the two other friends—money and means

• Art in Uncertain Times

  May 05, 2009, by Don Rothman Opinion

  We are searching for new paradigms with which to understand the global economy, and this search includes bewilderment at how greed can be shameless, lies and selfishness can abound even among decent people, and, despite our access to vast amounts of information, how our ignorance is (sometimes tragically, sometimes comically) irrepressible. It occurs to me that it’s through our exposure to art that we have developed a capacity to keep asking “what if?” sorts of questions and to discern the human consequences of catastrophes. Art can prompt us to hope for…and design…a better way.