‘Shakespeare Was A Rapper: Hamlet, Damn It – A Workshop’ happening 7 p.m. today, Aug. 1 at the International Shakespeare Center. Courtesy/Julian Alexander
SFSS News:
Here’s what’s happening at The Santa Fe Summer Shakespeare (SFSS) center.
Workshops, Classes, and Talks:
Shakespeare Was A Rapper: Hamlet, Damn It – A Workshop:
An evening lecture-demonstration with rapper & educator Julian Alexander; co-produced by Julian Alexander & ISC Santa Fe.
Details: 7 p.m. Aug. 1 • International Shakespeare Center • 3209A Calle Marie • $10-20 suggested donation at the door.
Hamlet, Damn It is being developed as part of Julian’s PhD research at the University of East London. Although presented as a theatrical piece, the presentation will be adapted in a lyrical hip-hop film. Presented by Julian Alexander with Josh Horton and Asiah Thomas-Mandlman.
‘An Intimate Connection: A gathering about consensual staging of intimacy in the theatre’ happening 7-9 p.m. Aug. 2 at the International Shakespeare Center. Courtesy/Zoe Burke
An Intimate Connection: A gathering about consensual staging of intimacy in the theatre:
produced by Zoe Burke
Details: 7-9 p.m. August 2 • International Shakespeare Center • 3209A Calle Marie • $20 suggested donation at the door.
An offering by Intimacy Director Zoe Burke, whose intimacy work has been seen in a variety of Santa Fe theatres since March 2020, most recently in Spring Awakening (Tri-M Productions), as well as Pericles and The Winter’s Tale (International Shakespeare Center). During this demonstration, she will teach elements of intimacy work in the theatre, including an introduction to staging tools to establish boundaries, create chemistry, consensually develop choreography, and leave a role in the space, culminating in a demonstration with guest artists on how these elements can be applied to contemporary and classical work.
Performances:
‘The Comedy of Errors’ to be performed Aug. 3-7, 10-14 at the Santa Fe Botanical Garden at Museum Hill, Ojos y Manos Amphitheater. Courtesy/Santa Fe Classic Theater
The Comedy of Errors:
produced by Santa Fe Classic Theater
Details: 7-9 p.m. Aug. 3 – 7, 10 – 14 • Botanical Garden gates open for picnicking at 5:15 p.m. • Santa Fe Botanical Garden at Museum Hill, Ojos y Manos Amphitheater.
Tickets: $50 premium seating, $35 regular reserved. Purchase tickets here
Join SFSS for Season V of Shakespeare in the Garden at the Santa Fe Botanical Garden’s Ojos y Manos Amphitheater as we continue to spread the joy with Shakespeare’s raucous farce, The Comedy of Errors. Hilarious mayhem ensues when two sets of identical twins collide in the streets of Ancient Ephesus during the Festival of Dionysus. Featuring Greek music by local band Polyhymnia. Come early with a picnic and enjoy the Santa Fe Botanical Garden in full bloom on a Santa Fe summer’s eve.
‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ to be performed at 6:30 p.m. Aug. 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14. Courtesy/Santa Fe Classic Theater
A Midsummer Night’s Dream:
produced by Upstart Crows of Santa Fe
Details: 6:30 p.m. Aug. 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14 • UUC Santa Fe • 107 W Barcelona Road • $15 at the door and online here
Two casts of actors 10-18 perform Shakespeare’s popular comedy. Thought to be written at the same time as Romeo and Juliet, the play takes place in a mythical Athens, where there is a handsome fairy king, a misguided parent, star-crossed lovers, a weaver who’s transformed into a half-donkey, wood sprites and elves. The two sets of lovers become lost in a magical forest where the Fairy King and Queen and their elves are at odds, and a group of amateur actors are rehearsing “A tedious brief scene of young Pyramus and his love Thisbe,” for Duke Theseus’ wedding celebration. Presiding over the topsy-turvy is the impish Puck.
Upstart Crows of Santa Fe are a Shakespeare troupe for young people 10-18. They produce workshops and uncut plays with a focus on understanding and collaboration. Casts create productions from deep explorations of Shakespeare’s language and meaning.
July 2022 Community Close-Reads:
Courtesy/iRead Shakespeare
The Winter’s Tale: Ongoing Community Close-Read:
produced by iRead Shakespeare • sessions lead by Dr. Robin Williams
Details: 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. June 4 (and ongoing every Saturday morning) • 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Online over Zoom
Tickets: $6 per session, Click the link to RSVP
The Winter’s Tale is a beautiful, disturbing, and charming play with plot lines of terrible tragedy and antic comedy. It begins with a royal marriage gone wrong, the horrifying madness of King Leontes, and seemingly irreparable consequences, shifting abruptly to music and foolery and a potentially tragic pastoral love story. The two parts come together in an astonishing end.
The group reads very slowly and carefully, and with much discussion. No one is required to read—feel free to come along and just join the discussion.
Visit the SFSS website for a full list of events.
