This will be my first time participating in Shaketember, and I can't wait! I've been reading Shakespeare regularly this year and it's been wonderful. Great choices for plays from all the hosts! I've only read Twelfth Night of all the plays and that was several years ago.
Looking forward to Shaketember discussions. I'll be reading Cymbeline and maybe I'll reread King Lear. Good excuse to do that. Thanks for hosting this Nicolle
Last year was my first Shaketember and I finished all three plays. I absolutely loved the experience of reading those with all of you. I'm definitely not going to manage 6 plays, so I decided to choose those I haven't read so far, which are Cymbeline and Titus Andronicus. I also plan to read 1599. Of the plays Shakespeare wrote in that year, I only read Julius Caesar. I might pick up As You Like It as my third play in September. Not sure if I'll be able to finish all these, since I'll be very busy in September, but I'll be happy if I manage two. Looking forward to Shaketember and hope to participate in it every year.🎉😊😊
Wow you finished all three plays last year - you’re a star! Glad you enjoyed it! Look forward to hearing your thoughts on Cymbeline and Titus Andronicus! 1599 is great, I hope you like it. Hope you manage to read all the ones you want. Thanks so much for the enthusiasm - such an encouragement for me :)
Wow. You must really know me. I will choose now and totally change my mind before Shaketember starts! Hahaha! Titus and Cymbeline are the ones calling to me now. I've not read Cymbeline before, but I have read Titus and really enjoyed it (though I am one of the few people I know who does).
Did you see that Kenneth Branaugh is doing a production of King Lear on Broadway starting in October? I sure wish I didn’t live in Texas! I loved his other Shakespeare productions, especially Hamlet. I’ve wanted to read this for a long time, so I’m most looking forward to it. Thanks for leading this one. Picked up my Folger’s edition today.
@@belindaguerette4249 Hello! I heard about it and watched an interview with him and his ‘daughters’. But don’t think I’ll be able to watch it. I actually haven’t watched any Kenneth Branagh though I heard so much about him. Glad to hear you’ll be joining us!
Two years ago I participated in Shaketember by reading, listening to an audio and watching an online production of Much Ado About Nothing. I remember it being harder than the average read, but worth the effort when I finally ‘got it’! Hope to take part again this year … will have to decide which play to focus on 😎
That was the first year I participated too! Much Ado became a favourite as a result. Yes totally agree. It’s worthwhile! Glad to hear you’re interested to take part this year :)
@adayofsmallthings Hi Nicole - I've got BBC version 1983, from when they did all of Shakespeare; RSC 2017 and a 2014 movie with Ethan Hawke, sometimes repackaged with the title 'Anarchy'.
I have been wanting to read King Lear and Cymbeline. So really happy with your choices. I found two copies of King Lear (Folger's and Arden) this past year while thrift shop browsing. I am new to Shakespeare for the most part but enjoy Shaketember ( fourth year maybe) for the opportunities to read and learn more. Thanks to Shaketember I started to read his work. I will need to reread Mrs. Dalloway to find the quote. I will look into finding productions.
Hi so glad to hear you’re joining us for King Lear and Cymbeline! It’s always nice to find good editions of Shakespeare at secondhand shops isn’t it :) Hope you enjoy Shaketember this year as well! The line in Mrs Dalloway from Cymbeline is ‘fear no more the heat of the sun’. It’s lovely. Ian McKellen did at least two versions of King Lear. There are many more others too. Hope you find a good one :)
Shaketember sounds fun. I have only read Macbeth of the six plays, but I did see a performance of Cymbeline during my Uni years (40 years ago!). I'm not sure what I'll choose from those on offer, Twelfth Night and The Tempest are the most appealing to me.
Fabulous selections, Nicole! I just read Cymbeline and studied it in an online course hosted by the Stratford Festival in Ontario, and I'll be seeing their production in September. I think you'll really enjoy this one - it's unique. I saw King Lear at Stratford (in Canada) last season and read the play then, so I've got both of your choices covered! See you in Shaketember.
I might try some Shakespeare audiobook versions this year. Would be great to revisit Titus Andronicus as we did it as a school play. Cymbeline is one that I haven't properly encountered yet.
I saw this video after viewing a live performance of a Shakespeare play! I love the idea of Shaketember! I think I’d like to join with a reread of King Lear and some of the sonnets! I’d like to save Macbeth for October!
Oh nice which live performance did you watch? Was it good? Glad to hear you’re thinking of joining us for King Lear! Sonnets sound good too. Macbeth for October because of the atmosphere?
@@adayofsmallthings I saw The Winter's Tale. It was good! The bear (actors with bear masks and amplified growling noises) was excellent. I am looking forward to King Lear and hopefully the sonnets. Yes, I think Macbeth will be just the thing for spooky season (although it is also a good choice year-round). I do hope you'll find the famous version with Judi Dench!
Yippppeeee.. I am going to see Twelfth night at Stratford upon Avon this Christmas… so I will definitely be reading that.. then I will try for two more. So glad you are doing this again 😀 I saw Cymbeline at the RSC last year.. it was so good. Is it rude to say… I love your top in this video. Where did you get that
Ooh yes! I noticed that one over Christmas New Year - I hope it’s good! I want to see the School for Scandal and Pericles which are on now at Stratford, but ticket costs do add up - sigh! Glad to hear you watched Cymbeline! Haha not at all, thank you, it’s from Mango, possibly last year - can’t quite remember :)
Shaketember sounds fantastic! I’ve never seen or read Cymbeline, but I’ve been meaning to try it for ages. Fingers crossed I can try it in time for Shaketember. Either way, I do intend to make a Shakespeare-themed video for next month.
@@adayofsmallthings I’m planning a longish video all about how I got into Shakespeare, and the unexpected paths my obsession got me to take. Should be a fun ramble!
I will try to read Cymbeline for the first time this Skaketember. I have the RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works thanks to Kelly’s recommendation. Off topic, but your shirt is so lovely. I would 100% buy it if I saw it in a shop.
I haven't taken part before, but love Shakespeare so am looking forward to this! I will be back to work in September ( I work in a school), so will just attempt one. I've read three of the choices, but not King Lear so will probably pick that one!
Yei for Shaketember!!! I love Shakespeare, his use of language, his humour and his endless supply of excellent comeback phrases. I read him at first translated, my mother language is Spanish, but afterwards, I enjoyed him better in English. I have meant to read The Tempest for a long time so maybe this is the opportunity.
Ooh interesting to hear you read it first in Spanish and now in English! Have you ever read the same play in both languages alongside each other? I wonder what you think about the translation! I didn’t ‘get’ The Tempest until I watched a show. I hope you enjoy it!
@@adayofsmallthings the translations to Spanish are always, regardless of author, period or genre, kind of 'neutral' in their use of language. Every character speaks the same way, so you lose so much reading a translated work. For example, the Harry Potter series. I read the first five books translated and the last two in English. Can you believe that Dumbledore, Ron and Hagrid all speak the same in Spanish?! It's mind-blowing!!! So with Shakespeare, you lose even more 😥 I have read him in Japanese and the translations are a little better in terms of nuances
The selections are good! I wanted to just read Titus Androlicus and Cymbelne because I have not read them. Then I decided "Just read them all!" And I will. There's never enough Shakespeare.
I’ve wanted to read King Lear, so that’s my first choice. Do you have recommendations for videos of Lear or Cymbeline we could access to go along with our reading? I know there is an Anthony Hopkins Lear streaming on some channel that I can get. Is that one good? Thanks for sharing the Shakelove with us!
Great to hear you’d like to try King Lear! Try search ‘Shakespeare Network’ on UA-cam. There’s a 2008 Ian McKellen version on the channel. For Cymbeline I found a BBC version on DVD from my local library. If I find anything else, I’ll let you know. I haven’t watched the Anthony Hopkins version. Is this the 2018 film version? I just searched. The cast looks amazing. The Rotten Tomatoes rating is very high too. Thanks for joining us!
This looks great. A bit spoiled for choice. Leah is in my opinion the greatest play. Have seen in 4 times (including at Stratford). Tempted by Cymbeline -a play I don’t know Saw the tempest in July Twelfth night is a favoirite I’m tempted by
Hey Nicole, I was very happy when I heard you say King Lear! It's on my reading list for this year and I was about to start it soon. This is a great motivation now. I had originally intended to read it in parallel with Moby Dick (on the recommendation of Benjamin .:), I finished MD without the Shakespeare insights however. So looking forward to it. Btw how does it work exactly when you are hosting? Do we just all read it and you discuss it in your video in September?
Great to hear you’re reading King Lear - lovely coincidence! Is this Ben McEvoy? Is Moby Dick related to King Lear? I had no idea. Yes, that’s it basically. Nothing very formal. I’ll discuss only Act 1 on Saturday 14th September and avoid spoilers; and two weeks later (Saturday 28th September) I’ll focus on the themes and characters etc. If you finish it by 28th, I’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments! Hope that makes sense :)
@@adayofsmallthings Yes it was from Ben McEvoy's channel. Melville was heavily influenced by Shakespeare when writing his book and it's particularly noticeable in Ahab's soliloquies for example. And King Lear is especially relevant in this case. So that's the reason. If you haven't read Moby Dick yet, I can recommend it. And thanks for the explanation, I'll start the play next week..😊
@@patrickrutledge8347 ah nice, Ben is great with books. That's interesting to learn - thanks for sharing! Will keep it in mind. Have fun with Shakespeare!
Hi Nicole, I hope your Shaketember is going well. I finished reading King Lear Act I and look forward to watching your video about it. It was fun getting back to Shakespeare after so long, the last time I read him was in school. I was quickly captivated by the language and strong story and characters. But although I'm a native English speaker , I struggle to understand the meaning quite often and not just due to the antiquated English but also because of the poetry. But I'm enjoying it and the more I read the more my brain slips into the language, the better I appreciate it. It's like tuning in a radio until it becomes clearer ..😉. Thanks again for getting me back to reading the plays...🎉
Shakespeare is fun for me too (not homework). I look forward to participating. Of the plays you and your co-hosts have chosen, there’s only one I have not yet seen performed-Cymbeline-although I did participate in a readalong of the play a few years ago. I’m excited that I will see Cymbeline performed in Stratford Ontario in September. The week that I am at the festival, I will also see Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night. The Twelfth Night production will have a gender-swapped Malvolio, which was also a choice made by the director in a Twelfth Night show that I attended in Vancouver earlier this month. I saw a horror clown rendition of Titus Andronicus a few years ago. Polythene sheets were laid over the laps of people in the front row to protect them from the gore. And a memorable performance of The Tempest at the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton was created with one third of the cast being Deaf and using sign language. I wanted to see it a second time but all of the shows were sold out. Thanks for co-hosting this event!
That’s very exciting - that you’re going to watch Cymbeline performed next month! Yes I watched a Twelfth Night with a woman playing Malvolio too. She was an excellent actor. Oh dear the Titus Andronicus you watched - that sounds intense! It’s so great you were able to watch so many shows! Hope you enjoy Shaketember!
Really looking forward to this spotlight on wonderment. Thanks for hosting.
Thank you and pleasure!
Yay Shaketamber! And very excited to hear that you’re heading to the Sam Wanamaker playhouse soon-it’s the most magical venue!
Hopefully soon!
Cymbeline is such an underrated play! Looking forward to your videos! 👍
Thank you!
This will be my first time participating in Shaketember, and I can't wait! I've been reading Shakespeare regularly this year and it's been wonderful. Great choices for plays from all the hosts! I've only read Twelfth Night of all the plays and that was several years ago.
@@elizabethbrink3761 Hello! Thanks for joining us! So glad to hear you’ve been enjoying Shakespeare this year :)
Looking forward to Shaketember discussions. I'll be reading Cymbeline and maybe I'll reread King Lear. Good excuse to do that. Thanks for hosting this Nicolle
Pleasure! Hope you enjoy both!
Last year was my first Shaketember and I finished all three plays. I absolutely loved the experience of reading those with all of you.
I'm definitely not going to manage 6 plays, so I decided to choose those I haven't read so far, which are Cymbeline and Titus Andronicus.
I also plan to read 1599. Of the plays Shakespeare wrote in that year, I only read Julius Caesar. I might pick up As You Like It as my third play in September. Not sure if I'll be able to finish all these, since I'll be very busy in September, but I'll be happy if I manage two.
Looking forward to Shaketember and hope to participate in it every year.🎉😊😊
Wow you finished all three plays last year - you’re a star! Glad you enjoyed it!
Look forward to hearing your thoughts on Cymbeline and Titus Andronicus!
1599 is great, I hope you like it. Hope you manage to read all the ones you want.
Thanks so much for the enthusiasm - such an encouragement for me :)
Wow. You must really know me. I will choose now and totally change my mind before Shaketember starts! Hahaha! Titus and Cymbeline are the ones calling to me now. I've not read Cymbeline before, but I have read Titus and really enjoyed it (though I am one of the few people I know who does).
Haha that’s what I tend to do too.
Great choices - there might be some common themes. Enjoy!
Did you see that Kenneth Branaugh is doing a production of King Lear on Broadway starting in October? I sure wish I didn’t live in Texas! I loved his other Shakespeare productions, especially Hamlet. I’ve wanted to read this for a long time, so I’m most looking forward to it. Thanks for leading this one. Picked up my Folger’s edition today.
@@belindaguerette4249 Hello! I heard about it and watched an interview with him and his ‘daughters’. But don’t think I’ll be able to watch it. I actually haven’t watched any Kenneth Branagh though I heard so much about him.
Glad to hear you’ll be joining us!
I might be inclined to revisit King Lear this year. I could also do with a rewatch of Ran. Love what you all are doing for ShakeTember this year. 😋
Hello! Lovely hearing from you. I just searched Ran - looks fascinating.
Thanks for the encouragement!
Two years ago I participated in Shaketember by reading, listening to an audio and watching an online production of Much Ado About Nothing. I remember it being harder than the average read, but worth the effort when I finally ‘got it’! Hope to take part again this year … will have to decide which play to focus on 😎
That was the first year I participated too! Much Ado became a favourite as a result. Yes totally agree. It’s worthwhile!
Glad to hear you’re interested to take part this year :)
Very excited about Shaketember... Cymbeline is a definite to watch (x3) and read
Hello! Nice hearing from you!
Times three? 😆 which version will you be watching? It’s a bit hard to find.
@adayofsmallthings Hi Nicole - I've got BBC version 1983, from when they did all of Shakespeare; RSC 2017 and a 2014 movie with Ethan Hawke, sometimes repackaged with the title 'Anarchy'.
Am looking forward to hear your non fiction recs! I have been digging all the nonfiction books about Shakespeare like Jonathan Bate's books and 1599!
Cool thanks for letting me know. I wasn’t sure if I should do a recommendation this year.
I love both of those!
Great! I have 1606 but have not read it yet. I know 4 of the plays but not Cymbeline or Titus ! So must join you on these.
Glad to hear you’re joining us!
1606 is great 👍
I have been wanting to read King Lear and Cymbeline. So really happy with your choices. I found two copies of King Lear (Folger's and Arden) this past year while thrift shop browsing. I am new to Shakespeare for the most part but enjoy Shaketember ( fourth year maybe) for the opportunities to read and learn more. Thanks to Shaketember I started to read his work. I will need to reread Mrs. Dalloway to find the quote. I will look into finding productions.
Hi so glad to hear you’re joining us for King Lear and Cymbeline! It’s always nice to find good editions of Shakespeare at secondhand shops isn’t it :) Hope you enjoy Shaketember this year as well!
The line in Mrs Dalloway from Cymbeline is ‘fear no more the heat of the sun’. It’s lovely.
Ian McKellen did at least two versions of King Lear. There are many more others too. Hope you find a good one :)
@@adayofsmallthings Thank you for the Woolf quote. I will look for the King Lear versions. Just ordered Cymbeline.
@@Carols_BooksandFiberspleasure :) enjoy!
Brilliant, can't wait.
Thank you :)
Yay Shaketember is coming!! Cymbeline for me!
Yay! Great to hear you’re going to try Cymbeline! I hope you like it :)
My first time here for Shaketember. I plan to re-read The Tempest.
Hello! Nice meeting you and thanks for joining us :) Glad to hear you plan to re-read The Tempest!
I’m in! King Lear is the major tragedy of his that I haven’t read, so I want to tick that one off. Looking forward to September
Same here! Great to hear you’re joining us! Please tag me if you make any videos :) would love to hear your thoughts on King Lear!
So excited to hearing about your thoughts on King Lear and Cymbeline! Great to host with you again this year!
Yay!
Shaketember sounds fun. I have only read Macbeth of the six plays, but I did see a performance of Cymbeline during my Uni years (40 years ago!). I'm not sure what I'll choose from those on offer, Twelfth Night and The Tempest are the most appealing to me.
Glad to hear you’re interested! Hope you enjoy them whichever you choose :)
Fabulous selections, Nicole! I just read Cymbeline and studied it in an online course hosted by the Stratford Festival in Ontario, and I'll be seeing their production in September. I think you'll really enjoy this one - it's unique. I saw King Lear at Stratford (in Canada) last season and read the play then, so I've got both of your choices covered! See you in Shaketember.
Wonderful! Would love to hear your thoughts when the videos are out - see you!
I might try some Shakespeare audiobook versions this year. Would be great to revisit Titus Andronicus as we did it as a school play. Cymbeline is one that I haven't properly encountered yet.
Wow doing Titus Andronicus in school is intense!
Hope you enjoy whichever you choose to read!
@@adayofsmallthings It was! Think it helped that we didn't quite get the full horror but just loved the gory drama of it all.
@@tillysshelf sounds great!
I saw this video after viewing a live performance of a Shakespeare play! I love the idea of Shaketember! I think I’d like to join with a reread of King Lear and some of the sonnets! I’d like to save Macbeth for October!
Oh nice which live performance did you watch? Was it good?
Glad to hear you’re thinking of joining us for King Lear! Sonnets sound good too.
Macbeth for October because of the atmosphere?
@@adayofsmallthings I saw The Winter's Tale. It was good! The bear (actors with bear masks and amplified growling noises) was excellent. I am looking forward to King Lear and hopefully the sonnets. Yes, I think Macbeth will be just the thing for spooky season (although it is also a good choice year-round). I do hope you'll find the famous version with Judi Dench!
@@aquaviolin07 sound fun! Hope you get to read all the ones you want to.
Thank you!
Yippppeeee.. I am going to see Twelfth night at Stratford upon Avon this Christmas… so I will definitely be reading that.. then I will try for two more. So glad you are doing this again 😀 I saw Cymbeline at the RSC last year.. it was so good.
Is it rude to say… I love your top in this video. Where did you get that
Ooh yes! I noticed that one over Christmas New Year - I hope it’s good!
I want to see the School for Scandal and Pericles which are on now at Stratford, but ticket costs do add up - sigh!
Glad to hear you watched Cymbeline!
Haha not at all, thank you, it’s from Mango, possibly last year - can’t quite remember :)
This will be my first ever Shaketember...I'm thinking MacBeth, as I already own it and Twelfth Night 😊 looking forward to this!!
@@sjmsutherland so glad you’re joining us! I hope you enjoy them!
Shaketember sounds fantastic! I’ve never seen or read Cymbeline, but I’ve been meaning to try it for ages. Fingers crossed I can try it in time for Shaketember. Either way, I do intend to make a Shakespeare-themed video for next month.
I hope you can!
Ooooh intriguing - what is it going to be about?
@@adayofsmallthings I’m planning a longish video all about how I got into Shakespeare, and the unexpected paths my obsession got me to take. Should be a fun ramble!
@@genteelblackholesounds fun!
I will try to read Cymbeline for the first time this Skaketember. I have the RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works thanks to Kelly’s recommendation. Off topic, but your shirt is so lovely. I would 100% buy it if I saw it in a shop.
Great to hear you’d like to try Cymbeline! RSC Shakespeare is great. I especially love the essays by Jonathan Bate.
Haha thank you :)
Hi, I'm new to your channel! I came over from Kelly's channel. I may try to join the Cymbeline read along.
Hello! Thanks for stopping by. Would love to hear your thoughts on Cymbeline if you get to read it :)
I haven't taken part before, but love Shakespeare so am looking forward to this! I will be back to work in September ( I work in a school), so will just attempt one. I've read three of the choices, but not King Lear so will probably pick that one!
Glad to hear! Hope you enjoy King Lear!
Yei for Shaketember!!! I love Shakespeare, his use of language, his humour and his endless supply of excellent comeback phrases. I read him at first translated, my mother language is Spanish, but afterwards, I enjoyed him better in English. I have meant to read The Tempest for a long time so maybe this is the opportunity.
Ooh interesting to hear you read it first in Spanish and now in English! Have you ever read the same play in both languages alongside each other? I wonder what you think about the translation!
I didn’t ‘get’ The Tempest until I watched a show. I hope you enjoy it!
@@adayofsmallthings the translations to Spanish are always, regardless of author, period or genre, kind of 'neutral' in their use of language. Every character speaks the same way, so you lose so much reading a translated work. For example, the Harry Potter series. I read the first five books translated and the last two in English. Can you believe that Dumbledore, Ron and Hagrid all speak the same in Spanish?! It's mind-blowing!!! So with Shakespeare, you lose even more 😥 I have read him in Japanese and the translations are a little better in terms of nuances
Hahaha I love your illustration using Harry Potter! Yes I think I understand what you mean.
In Japanese as well! You speak so many languages!
The selections are good! I wanted to just read Titus Androlicus and Cymbelne because I have not read them.
Then I decided "Just read them all!" And I will. There's never enough Shakespeare.
Wow!! All of them! You’re a star!
Can’t wait to hear your thoughts.
@@adayofsmallthings Thank you, but I have read all the other entries already, so it's not a big deal.
@@donaldkelly3983still! 👍
I’ve wanted to read King Lear, so that’s my first choice. Do you have recommendations for videos of Lear or Cymbeline we could access to go along with our reading? I know there is an Anthony Hopkins Lear streaming on some channel that I can get. Is that one good? Thanks for sharing the Shakelove with us!
Great to hear you’d like to try King Lear! Try search ‘Shakespeare Network’ on UA-cam. There’s a 2008 Ian McKellen version on the channel. For Cymbeline I found a BBC version on DVD from my local library. If I find anything else, I’ll let you know. I haven’t watched the Anthony Hopkins version. Is this the 2018 film version? I just searched. The cast looks amazing. The Rotten Tomatoes rating is very high too.
Thanks for joining us!
This looks great. A bit spoiled for choice. Leah is in my opinion the greatest play. Have seen in 4 times (including at Stratford). Tempted by Cymbeline -a play I don’t know
Saw the tempest in July
Twelfth night is a favoirite I’m tempted by
Sounds like you watched quite a lot of Shakespeare! Hope you get to read (or re-read) some in September!
Hey Nicole, I was very happy when I heard you say King Lear! It's on my reading list for this year and I was about to start it soon. This is a great motivation now. I had originally intended to read it in parallel with Moby Dick (on the recommendation of Benjamin .:), I finished MD without the Shakespeare insights however. So looking forward to it. Btw how does it work exactly when you are hosting? Do we just all read it and you discuss it in your video in September?
Great to hear you’re reading King Lear - lovely coincidence!
Is this Ben McEvoy? Is Moby Dick related to King Lear? I had no idea.
Yes, that’s it basically. Nothing very formal. I’ll discuss only Act 1 on Saturday 14th September and avoid spoilers; and two weeks later (Saturday 28th September) I’ll focus on the themes and characters etc. If you finish it by 28th, I’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments! Hope that makes sense :)
@@adayofsmallthings Yes it was from Ben McEvoy's channel. Melville was heavily influenced by Shakespeare when writing his book and it's particularly noticeable in Ahab's soliloquies for example. And King Lear is especially relevant in this case. So that's the reason. If you haven't read Moby Dick yet, I can recommend it. And thanks for the explanation, I'll start the play next week..😊
@@patrickrutledge8347 ah nice, Ben is great with books.
That's interesting to learn - thanks for sharing! Will keep it in mind.
Have fun with Shakespeare!
Hi Nicole, I hope your Shaketember is going well. I finished reading King Lear Act I and look forward to watching your video about it. It was fun getting back to Shakespeare after so long, the last time I read him was in school. I was quickly captivated by the language and strong story and characters. But although I'm a native English speaker , I struggle to understand the meaning quite often and not just due to the antiquated English but also because of the poetry. But I'm enjoying it and the more I read the more my brain slips into the language, the better I appreciate it. It's like tuning in a radio until it becomes clearer ..😉. Thanks again for getting me back to reading the plays...🎉
Shakespeare is fun for me too (not homework). I look forward to participating. Of the plays you and your co-hosts have chosen, there’s only one I have not yet seen performed-Cymbeline-although I did participate in a readalong of the play a few years ago. I’m excited that I will see Cymbeline performed in Stratford Ontario in September. The week that I am at the festival, I will also see Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night. The Twelfth Night production will have a gender-swapped Malvolio, which was also a choice made by the director in a Twelfth Night show that I attended in Vancouver earlier this month. I saw a horror clown rendition of Titus Andronicus a few years ago. Polythene sheets were laid over the laps of people in the front row to protect them from the gore. And a memorable performance of The Tempest at the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton was created with one third of the cast being Deaf and using sign language. I wanted to see it a second time but all of the shows were sold out.
Thanks for co-hosting this event!
That’s very exciting - that you’re going to watch Cymbeline performed next month!
Yes I watched a Twelfth Night with a woman playing Malvolio too. She was an excellent actor.
Oh dear the Titus Andronicus you watched - that sounds intense!
It’s so great you were able to watch so many shows! Hope you enjoy Shaketember!
@@adayofsmallthings Thanks Nicole.