Exclusive: Bedlam, the small, critically acclaimed Off Broadway theater company known for its clever, spare and unconventional stagings of classics like The Crucible and Saint Joan, is developing Bedlam: The Series, an eight-episode New Media mash-up of Shakespeare plays using the Bard’s own language.
The series, to be released on an as-yet-unannounced platform, begins filming this month in New York City and New York’s Hudson Valley.
Written by Bedlam artistic director Eric Tucker and Musa Gurnis and directed by Tucker, the series will combine characters and plots from King Lear, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Merchant of Venice and other plays in an all-new story.
“As a theatre company, most immediately, we need to adapt to our current situation and find ways of staying alive,” Tucker said, “creating content that serves our mission and vision, while assuring the well-being and livelihood of our regular artists and staff.
The series, to be released on an as-yet-unannounced platform, begins filming this month in New York City and New York’s Hudson Valley.
Written by Bedlam artistic director Eric Tucker and Musa Gurnis and directed by Tucker, the series will combine characters and plots from King Lear, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Merchant of Venice and other plays in an all-new story.
“As a theatre company, most immediately, we need to adapt to our current situation and find ways of staying alive,” Tucker said, “creating content that serves our mission and vision, while assuring the well-being and livelihood of our regular artists and staff.
- 10/14/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
As subjective as art is, a few truths can be agreed upon: Shakespeare remains essential and those who understand and re-enact his works are important.
Tina Packer (the original "Dr. Who"), who has devoted a lifetime to Shakespeare, is more than important; she is a master. She has directed most of Shakespeare's plays, built Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Mass., and has acted in many of his plays. She has lectured extensively on his canon at Harvard, M.I.T. and Nyu.
And it is at Nyu, in the Gym at Judson, a basement theater where her creation, "Tina Packer's Women of Will" opened Sunday (Feb. 3).
Here, she plays a variety of the women of Shakespeare and her well-matched counter, Nigel Gore, plays the men. They are top-notch, learned and spot-on. That is when they stick to the bard's lines. When they do, a spell is cast, as it is...
Tina Packer (the original "Dr. Who"), who has devoted a lifetime to Shakespeare, is more than important; she is a master. She has directed most of Shakespeare's plays, built Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Mass., and has acted in many of his plays. She has lectured extensively on his canon at Harvard, M.I.T. and Nyu.
And it is at Nyu, in the Gym at Judson, a basement theater where her creation, "Tina Packer's Women of Will" opened Sunday (Feb. 3).
Here, she plays a variety of the women of Shakespeare and her well-matched counter, Nigel Gore, plays the men. They are top-notch, learned and spot-on. That is when they stick to the bard's lines. When they do, a spell is cast, as it is...
- 2/4/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
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