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What Fools These Mortals Be is an inventive retelling of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream performed as a series of tableau vivantes (living pictures) by a group of 14 formerly incarcerated women.

The project is a collaboration between The Circle Project and Vancouver artist Adad Hannah.

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Her staging of the Scottish play opens with an arresting tableau. Lady Macbeth sits hunched over, her face hidden under a disheveled mane. As she rips out clumps of her hair, a portrait of Macbeth, her husband, starts spinning on a wall behind her — until an invisible knife seems to cut into the painting.

It’s an ominous way to position Lady Macbeth, as a shadow addition to the three witches who prophesy that Macbeth will be king. When the trio appears shortly afterward to deliver their message, a giant ring materializes above the empty stage. In true “Lord of the Rings” fashion, it then descends upon Macbeth (Noam Morgensztern), metaphorically anointing him even as recorded whispers of “murder” fill the Comédie-Française’s auditorium.

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At the Comédie-Française, Costa’s “Macbeth” edits the two dozen named characters down to only eight actors and leans heavily into religious symbolism. In “Hamlet,” Jatahy goes so far as to keep Ophelia alive. Far from going mad, Ophelia climbs down from the stage and exits through the auditorium after declaring: “I died all these years. This year, I won’t die.”

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On 23 April 2024, in commemoration of the English Language Day 2024 at the United Nations, the UN Movie Society of the United Nations Staff Recreation Council will inaugurate the “Shakespeare at the UN”– an exploration of how the timeless works of Shakespeare, in reflecting the human experience, can resonate with the core values ​​of the UN, such as promoting understanding of humanity and strengthening global connections. The project will be launched on the official global channels of the United Nations – UN Web TV and UN YouTube. 

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Josette Bushell-Mingo OBE Principal and CEO of The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London

Lady Macbeth's speech from Act I Scene 5, from Macbeth, by William Shakespeare ~ Performed in American Sign Language by Dawn Jani Birley with audio translation by Josette Bushell-Mingo OBE 

The Chorus' speech from Act III Prologue, from Henry V, by William Shakespeare ~ Performed in Mandarin Chinese by Diana Feng

Shakespeare's Sonnet 19, by William Shakespeare ~ Performed in Farsi by Lanna Joffrey, with translation from Farokh Soltani

King Lear's speech from Act III Scene 4, from King Lear, by William Shakespeare ~ Performed by Danny Sapani 

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It should come as no surprise, then, that in the Educational Theater Association’s most recent survey, 85 percent of American theater teachers expressed concern about censorship. Even Shakespeare is at risk: In Florida, new laws led to the restriction of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” to grades 10 through 12 and “Romeo and Juliet” could not be taught in full to avoid falling afoul of legislation targeting “sexual conduct.” Kill off young people’s exposure to theater, and you kill off a generation of playgoers, along with the empathy and camaraderie (already in short supply) that is intrinsic to theater. 

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Throughout the play, there will be dialogues in Turkish, Greek and English. Translation will be provided for the audience through subtitles.

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Mr. H. Marston as Hotspur and Mr. F. Robinson as Prince Henry

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Children's & Family Emmy winner Kit Connor (Heartstopper) and Golden Globe winner Rachel Zegler (María in Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story) will star in a new Broadway production of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in the fall at a theatre to be announced.

Tony winner Sam Gold will direct Romeo + Juliet, which will feature music by Grammy winner Jack Antonoff and movement by Tony winner Sonya Tayeh.

Director Gold said in a statement, “With the presidential election coming up in November, I felt like making a show this fall that celebrates youth and hope, and unleashes the anger young people feel about the world they are inheriting."

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Field Marshal Lord Kitchener was Britain’s great recruiting sergeant of the First World War. His pointing finger was leveled at manipulable young men throughout the shires of England. A stirring quotation from Macbeth — “Stand Not Upon the Order of Your Going, but Go at Once” — was deftly inserted into a recruitment poster for Kitchener’s New Army, and copies of The Kitchener Shakespeare were given to wounded and disabled soldiers. 

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I was confused upon finishing the novel, to say the least. Where was the angry, independent, driven, feminist main character I had so loved in “10 Things I Hate About You?” Why would Tyler, a modern writer, go through the effort of reimagining Shakespeare’s version of the story and not even bother to alter the more traditional messaging with a take that directly addresses the societal expectations of women? The original work objectifies and subjugates its female lead, so the logical next step would be for a modern retelling to directly combat this instead of addressing the standards of toxic masculinity, as “Vinegar Girl” does. I had heard of the speech Kate’s character delivers at the end of the play, detailing how wives should strive to obey their husbands and a woman’s proper place in a marriage — why would Tyler blatantly avoid any discussion of this theme? I was annoyed, but I was also curious. Shouldn’t we be updating the classic stories that don’t align with our modern cultural values by directly challenging the original offensive material?

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Dr Darren Freebury-Jones, a lecturer in Shakespeare studies at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon, has discovered “striking similarities” between phrases recited by Thorello in Every Man in His Humour and those in Shakespeare’s Othello, Hamlet and Twelfth Night – all written between 1600 and 1603.

He told the Guardian: “What I’ve found are some really interesting connections in terms of language, which suggest that Shakespeare was, perhaps unconsciously, remembering his own lines.”

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Well, this one was more Shakespeare. It’s funny because even my favorite of all the Letterboxd reviews say, “Oh, there’re so many cringe scenes.” I say, “Well, which ones are cringe?” “Oh, the goofy part when the dad and the brother over-act loudly.” And then I just have to say, “That is directly from William Shakespeare.” All the cringe scenes in this movie are taken directly from William Shakespeare. The tropes that all the romantic comedies have now, he started it back in sixteen-whatever. That’s where they began. So, yes, you’ve seen it millions of times, but this was honoring the goofiness of that.

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