It can be tricky business, tinkering with the words of William Shakespeare. On one hand, let’s face it, his plays can be a real slog for those of us who are iambic pentameter-averse. On the other hand, c’mon: The dude was the Bard. They don’t give you a title like that if you are a hack.
A paranoid, selfish and unreliable monarch is overthrown. Sound familiar?
There’s something about William Shakespeare’s “Richard II” that resonated with African-American Shakespeare Company artistic director L. Peter Callender more than ever in recent years.
April 22-24, 2022 | Production | The Old Globe USD Shiley Graduate Theatre Program | San Diego, CA, USA
April 2022 | Exploratory Workshop | Theater Breaking Through Barriers
The African-American Shakespeare Company production of Richard II, in a new Play On! translation by Naomi Iizuka, runs this weekend and next April 15-24, 2022, at the Marines Memorial Theatre in San Francisco. Director L. Peter Callender and star Lijesh Krishnan discuss the creation of this production.
March 10 – 19, 2022 | Portland Shakes & the Vancouver School of Arts and Academics | Production | Vancouver, WA, USA
March 26 – April 3, 2022 | Syracuse University | Production | Syracuse, NY, USA
February 17-19, 2022 | UNCSA | Production | Winston-Salem, NC, USA
Ambition. Betrayal. Corruption. Retribution. An empire in turmoil. No, these aren’t today’s headlines, but they could be.
We don’t really need to name the show. Fair is foul, foul is fair, and we all know the spirit of the Scottish Play is in the air.
