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In celebration of Shakespeare’s birthday in April, Melissa Schmitz hosted Play On Shakespeare’s President & Co-Founder Lue Douthit on 101 Stage Adaptations, a podcast series that interviews playwrights and theater-makers about the process of creating and producing stage adaptations.
In this episode, topics include:
- What Play On Shakespeare is and does and how the project came to be
- Why we call them Shakespeare translations
- What’s happening now that all 39 plays have been written
- The various educational possibilities for the translations
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The Language of Midsummer
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Playwriting at Play On Shakespeare
Our playwrights took on the challenge of translating Shakespeare’s works into modern verse. Here’s what they have to say. -
CORIOLANUS Brings Democracy Into Question
CORIOLANUS is about to hit the Oregon Shakespeare Festival stage! Read on to glean exclusive insights by director Rosa Joshi and dramaturg Kamilah Bush on the creation of CORIOLANUS.
