Chicago’s Writers Theatre opened its first full season in its award-winning new performance space with a glorious and timely production of Julius Caesar. Actor, co-director, and adaptor Scott Parkinson (left) discusses the process of streamlining this classic by focusing on its dual protagonists, finding echoes in the current political moment, augmenting the language, losing extraneous characters, avoiding extra-textual issues, and the importance of global representation and adding to the conversation. (Length 18:31)
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austin
Excellent suggestion! Thanks for sharing.
Hilary Giffen
American Players Theatre in Spring Green Wisconsin is another rotating Rep. It only runs June through the end of October, but runs 8 shows of which all 8 will play in weekends in August and September. It’s close enough to Chicago, Milwaukee and the Twin Cities for a nice weekend getaway and I day-trip matinees from Milwaukee. I highly recommend checking them out.
austin
You locals are lucky to have such a treasure. Jealous!
Nanc
Great podcast–for the record, we locals love OSF, too! I see everything at least once.