21.Jan.2010 Loss
by Tim Ocel Director of IRT’s 2010 production of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare makes us watch a horrible event: two teenagers commit suicide. The world in which they live will not allow them to seek happiness with each other. The double suicide is not a romantic act, nor a poetic one; they [...]
20.Jan.2010 Shakespeare’s Theatre
In Shakespeare’s day, playgoing was enormously popular for all classes of people, and new theatres were springing up across London. None was more popular than Shakespeare’s home theatre. The Globe functioned in many ways as a metaphor for contemporary concepts of society, civilization, and the universe at large. The name of the theatre itself—the Globe—suggested [...]
Shakespeare
Although William Shakespeare is generally considered the greatest dramatist in the English language, few facts are known about his life. Only a handful of legal documents verify his existence. Tradition has it that he was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, a small market town, on April 23, 1564. His father was a glove maker who became High [...]
“Two households, both alike in dignity …”
Romeo and Juliet is perhaps Shakespeare’s most familiar play. Its story of forbidden love translates into all cultures and has served as inspiration for artworks in all forms: music, opera, ballet, film, literature, and painting. Even people who have never read or seen the play know lines from it, so pervasive is its influence in [...]
Why Shakespeare?
Why do we study the plays of William Shakespeare? He lived and died almost 400 years ago. He wrote about kings and queens and other people far from our own time. His use of poetry is strange to our ears, and his vocabulary is full of words we don’t understand and can’t pronounce. How could [...]
The Cast of ROMEO AND JULIET
Karen Aldridge Nurse Karen makes her IRT debut. At Chicago Shakespeare Theatre she has played Olivia in Twelfth Night, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Isabella in Edward II, and the Princess of France in Love’s Labor’s Lost; she also appeared in the international tour of Le Costume directed by Peter Brook, which included performances at Chicago [...]
17.Jan.2010 The 1949 Dodge
06.Jan.2010 The Dodge Meadowbrook Story Begins
Actually, this Dodge Meadowbrook’s story began with its manufacture in the early fifties, but now it’s embarking on a new adventure at the Indiana Repertory Theatre as part of the set for WellPoint presents William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Read about the car in this Sunday’s (January 10) Indianapolis Star. We’ll have further details, including [...]
05.Jan.2010 Your reviews
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