The San Diego Shakespeare Society
Celebrating the Bard's Works Since 2002
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We continue with this uncompromising celebration of early English nationalism that contrasts the English with the French, portrayed here as effeminate and scheming. Directed by the equally uncompromising Bill Glaser.
Since 2017, Nathan Agin has produced and hosted The Working Actor's Journey, a podcast and workshop series that serves as a forum for professional actors to discuss their craft, dig into the text, and to impart insights for the benefit of others. The WAJ offers 30+ long-form interviews and 8 month-long workshops available for free […]
Join us in reading aloud of how King Lear divides his kingdom among the two daughters who flatter him and banishes the third one who loves him. Our director is Tom Haine. See here for FAQs: https://sandiegoshakespearesociety.org/monthly-readings/
Join us in reading aloud of how Lear goes mad and wanders through a storm. His banished daughter returns with an army, but tragedy is in store. Our director is Tom Haine. See here for FAQs: https://sandiegoshakespearesociety.org/monthly-readings/
Join us in celebrating Shakespeare’s birthday (a bit belatedly) and in appreciating the members of the Society who, for twenty-five years, have made possible an amazing array of performances, educational offerings, and other special events. We will gather at a fantastic outdoor theatre in the Bay Park neighborhood for entertainment, food, wine, and birthday cake. […]
Thomas Haine's "Shakespeare Unfolded" actors perform with Charles Peters' CONNECTIONS contemporary actors in one night super showcase. Buy tickets at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/connections-actors-meet-shakespeare-actors-in-one-nite-showcase-tickets-1342766854809?aff=oddtdtcreator
Dr. Gideon Rappaport will discuss his book Shakespeare's Rhetorical Figures: An Outline. When Shakespeare began writing for the stage, he had already mastered over two hundred rhetorical figures inherited from the long tradition of the language arts--grammar, logic, and rhetoric--stretching from Aristotle to his own time. These figures, which to us may appear merely decorative, […]
The Winter’s Tale, one of Shakespeare’s very late plays, is filled with improbabilities. Before the conclusion, one character comments that what we are about to see, “Were it but told you, should be hooted at / Like an old tale.” Kevin Manley is our director.
At Sage Creek High School, one performance of Twelfth Night. https://www.instagram.com/twelfth.night.schs/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw%3D%3D#.
Something is rotten in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, but it’s not Shakespeare’s fault. There’s a good reason for the bad example of inventing the Jew Shylock to be the play’s villain, and the play, though its semi-anti-Semitism is offensive and dangerous, is nonetheless of universal value. Dr. Gideon Rappaport, San Diego's premier Shakespearean dramaturg, will […]
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