SFSS News:
Here’s what’s happening this weekend and next during the Santa Fe Summer Shakespeare festival—a staged reading of a new play based on Henry the Fourth; an open rehearsal; editing Shakespeare; and of course the ongoing community readings out loud.
Courage! To The Field!
7 p.m., Sunday, June 23
Courage! To the Field! is a new play written by Else C. Went.
Directed by Ariana Karp.
Courage! To The Field! is an alternate-history play, a good old-fashioned party, and a story told with music. As brand-new characters and old favorites alike bump up against the edges of Henry the Fourth, Courage! frames a wild conversation with Shakespeare himself in which unnamed messengers, vengeful tapsters, and neglected wives turn history inside-out and make it their own. With disguises, swordplay, romance, fiddles, hi-jinks, and more—history is theater, and it belongs to everyone.
“I want to make theater worth it.” —Else C. Went
See it 7 p.m. this Sunday, June 23 • $15 at the door The Swan Theater • 1213-B Parkway Drive • Santa Fe
For more details and to buy tickets, please go to Santa Fe Summer Shakespeare.
Open Rehearsal: The Comedy Of Errors
8:30 p.m., Tuesday, July 2
The Upstart Crows is a troupe of young Shakespeareans ages 10 to 18 who perform uncut Shakespeare. There are two full casts for this sweet little play, and each cast does the backstage work for the other. They study the language and develop the characters together.
Drop in at the Botanical Garden any time between 6 and 8:30 to watch these young folk rehearse the play. They will beperforming the play in late July/early August.
$10 general admission at the door
Contact Caryl Farkas: caryl@UpstartCrowsofSantaFe.org
What? You’re Editing Shakespeare?
10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Saturday, July 6
“What do you mean—you EDIT Shakespeare!?”
It might seem almost sacrilegious to edit Shakespeare, but unless you are reading directly from a reproduction of the First Folio printed in 1623, you have never read or seen Shakespeare that is NOT edited.
Learn about the original printed text of Shakespeare’s plays and why it is necessary to edit. Discover what editors have done for the past four hundred years that have impacted the public impression of the plays, including the importance for almost three hundred years to edit out the “naughty bits.” See what editors did in the early twentieth century to intentionally make Shakespeare difficult. Then try your hand at editing Shakespeare yourself!
Workshop led by Dr. Robin Williams.
$10 at the door.
iRead Shakespeare — out loud and in community
And of course we have four different reading groups that anyone can drop in on. Come to read aloud or just listen and discuss! Robin Williams facilitates Henry the Fourth, Part One, on Sunday mornings;Romeo and Juliet on Monday evenings; and Measure for Measure on Wednesday mornings, all in the Shakespeare Reading Room at 3209 Calle Marie; $5. Barry Hatfield leads Much Ado About Nothing at the La Farge Library; free. Please see the SFSS calendar for details.
Cadets de Gascon * Stage Combat
If you’re an ISC cast member in Henry the Fourth, we strongly urge you to come in to work on your fights! If you’re a Crow whose character uses stage violence, we highly recommend you drop in to work on your fights. If you’re neither of these but want to have a great time working on stage combat, come on down!
Sunday • June 23 • 1:15 to 3:15 p.m. • Shakespeare Reading Room
3209-A Calle Marie—in the Meow Wolf neighborhood
Sunday • June 30 • 3:30 to 5:30 p.m.
Crows’ Nest • 7 Caliente Road, Building B • La Tienda in Eldorado
$10 drop in • $15 for two in one month
Contact Caryl: caryl@InternationalShakespeare.center.
