Gender themes still resonate in Shakespeare birthday bash production
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Nick Nudler, foreground, in Northeast Regional Tour of Shakespeare s Shakespeare and the Language that Shaped a World. Background from left are: Emily Díaz, Madeleine Rose Maggio (as Joan of Arc), , Devante Owens, and Kirsten Peacock
Northeast Regional Tour of Shakespeare, Shakespeare and the Language that Shaped a World, 2021
Directed by Kevin G. Coleman
Filmed by Patrick Toole
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Emily Díaz (as Juliet) and Devante Owens (as Romeo) in Northeast Regional Tour of Shakespeare s Shakespeare and the Language that Shaped a World.
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Kirsten Peacock (as Calpurnia) in Northeast Regional Tour of Shakespeare, s Shakespeare and the Language that Shaped a World.
LENOX â Very little is conventional about Emma Woodhouse, the eponymous would-be matchmaker heroine of Jane Austen s fourth novel; the last to be published in her lifetime.
Before she began writing Emma, Austen famously described her as a heroine no one but myself will much like.
Austen was wrong. Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen s more popular characters. Emma has been adapted for the movies â eight times; and multiple times on television, the stage, YouTube. Now, it s playwright Kate Hamill s turn.
Hamill s Emma, a new play-in-development, will be presented by Shakespeare & Company in a free virtual costumed staged reading this weekend and next. The performance can be accessed at 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, and again Jan. 2 and 3 through the Shakespeare & Company website â shakespeare.org.