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hermionesviolinI just got an email from Actors Shakespeare Project: "CHECK OUT 2018 - 19 SEASON Early Bird Subscriptions On Sale"
ASP has a new Artistic Director, and the email opened with:
(Also, I might quibble with the framing of their "legacy." They've done Marlowe, School for Scandal [18th century], Chekhov, and Euripides, which we could call all "classical theatre" -- but they've also done contemporary plays. And it looks like their non-Shakespeare plays this year are contemporary plays but "about" older plays -- Equivocation is about what if Shakespeare was commissioned to write about the Gunpowder Plot; Nat Turner in Jerusalem imagines Turner’s final night in a jail cell in Jerusalem, Virginia, after his 1831 slave uprising; and Pride and Prejudice is based on the 19th-century novel.)
Addendum: I Googled the plays I didn't know, but apparently I could have just clicked on the "More Information" button in the email and would have been taken to their "Announcing Our 2018-2019 Season!" page with blurbs for each.
ASP has a new Artistic Director, and the email opened with:
I am excited to share my first season of programming as Artistic Director at ASP. Our legacy has been one of bringing classical theatre to communities throughout Boston – most of which has consisted of the works of William Shakespeare. As we turn 15, we will explore new chapters, voices and collaborators in our evolution as one of Greater Boston’s most respected theatre companies.and the play list is:
- Macbeth by William Shakespeare (in a translation by Migdalia Cruz) September 26 - November 11, 2018
- Equivocation by Bill Cain (October 9 - November 11, 2018)
- Nat Turner in Jerusalem by Nathan Alan Davis (February 2 - February 24, 2019)
- Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (a co-production with the Lyric Stage Company) March 29 - April 28, 2019
- Pride and Prejudice by Kate Hamill (an adaptation of the novel by Jane Austen) a co-production with Dorset Theatre Festival (June 5 - June 30)
(Also, I might quibble with the framing of their "legacy." They've done Marlowe, School for Scandal [18th century], Chekhov, and Euripides, which we could call all "classical theatre" -- but they've also done contemporary plays. And it looks like their non-Shakespeare plays this year are contemporary plays but "about" older plays -- Equivocation is about what if Shakespeare was commissioned to write about the Gunpowder Plot; Nat Turner in Jerusalem imagines Turner’s final night in a jail cell in Jerusalem, Virginia, after his 1831 slave uprising; and Pride and Prejudice is based on the 19th-century novel.)
Addendum: I Googled the plays I didn't know, but apparently I could have just clicked on the "More Information" button in the email and would have been taken to their "Announcing Our 2018-2019 Season!" page with blurbs for each.