The Mercury News interview with Marcus Gardley regarding his Cal Shakes’ premiere of Lear.
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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.
African-American Shakes Hits Stage with Revamped ‘Richard II’
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.