“You’ll likely forget that you are watching a translation, because this production works so deftly to help you enter and engage in the work that is so clearly Shakespeare.”
Category: Press (page 3)
Curtain Call: Translating The Bard’s words to contemporary English
Jim Flint of the Ashland News interviews President and Co-Founder, Lue Douthit, about the beginnings of Play On Shakespeare.
Play On Podcasts: Shakespeare Reimagined
Check out Ear Worthy’s review of the Play On Podcasts series, featuring specific reviews for Othello, Romeo and Juliet, and more!
Indigenous scholars update language of ‘Henry IV, Part 1’ in new production at Lewis & Clark
The Oregon Public Broadcasting interviews playwright Yvette Nolan and director Waylon Lenk on their work on Henry IV, Part I and their production at Lewis & Clark College.
Review: A ‘Romeo and Juliet’ That Clowns Around With Tragedy
Alexis Soloski of The New York Times reviews NAATCO’s production of Romeo and Juliet, translated by Hansol Jung.
Review: Understand every word of Shakespeare’s ‘Lear’ at Cal Shakes
At Cal Shakes right now, you can understand every word of a Shakespeare play.
Oakland’s Marcus Gardley creates modern, S.F.-set version of ‘King Lear’
Mercury News interviews Marcus Gardley, Eric Ting, and Dawn Monique-Williams on a feature about Cal Shakes’ production of Lear.
Full Cast & Creative Team Announced for World Premiere of Marcus Gardley’s Modern Verse Translation of KING LEAR
California Shakespeare Theater has announced the full cast and creative team for LEAR, the world premiere modern verse translation of Williams Shakespeare’s King Lear by playwright and Oakland-native Marcus Gardley (black odyssey at Cal Shakes).
Why Rewrite Shakespeare Into Modern English? Why Not, Says Playwright Hansol Jung
Playbill interviews Hansol Jung on her translation of Romeo and Juliet, most recently produced with NAATCO and Two River Theater.
“Play on Shakespeare” – changing the language but not the drama
London Born & Bred gives readers an insight on Play On Shakespeare’s Research in Action event at Shakespeare’s Globe in London, UK!