Jack h skirball biography of william shakespeare
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Skirball Center for the Performing Arts Announces 2010-2011 Season
The Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at New York University has announced programming for the 2010-2011 season.
As previously reported, the venue will host The Tricycle Theatre Company’s The Great Game: Afghanistan, in association with the Public Theater, December 1-19.The three-part work explores the culture and history of Afghanistan through the eyes of twelve British and American playwrights and individuals who have been actively involved in the country’s affairs since Western involvement in 1842 to present day.
The Aquila Theatre Company will return to the Skirball, April 20-23, presenting in separate performances, Luigi Pirandello’s surrealist play Six Characters in Search of an Author and Shakespeare’s timeless comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Skirball will also screen several productions as part of National Theatre Live (NT Live). Announced thus far
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The title of William Shakespeare’s AS YOU LIKE IT holds a double meaning that teasingly suggests this is a play to please all tastes. Is it possible? With his subversive updating of the Bard’s classic, cultural provocateur Cliff Cardinal seeks to find out. The show exults in dark humour, difficult subject matter, and raw emotion. Bear these words in mind:
Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head
– AS YOU LIKE IT, William Shakespeare
CONTENT ADVISORY: This production contains strong language and examines mature themes.
ARTISTS
Cliff Cardinal Writer and Creator
Logan Cracknell Lighting Designer
Jennifer Stobart Stage Manager
Chris Abraham Artistic Director, Crow’s Theatre
Cliff Cardinal, Writer and Creator
Cliff Cardinal is a polarizing writer and performer known for his black humour and compassionate poeticism. William Shakespeare’s AS YOU LIKE IT, A Radical Retelling by Clif
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As You Like It Tickets
William Shakespeare’s beloved comedy As You Like It seems like a bizarre choice for inclusion in an experimental theater festival. That’s only the first of many surprises to be found in the New York premiere of playwright Cliff Cardinal‘s radical retelling of As You Like It. This timeless tale of mistaken identities, gentle ruses, banishment and forgiveness takes on an entirely new meaning in the daring new retelling that the Toronto Star calls “sly, funny and charming.” Born on a South Dakota American Indian reservation, Cardinal’s Cree and Lakota heritage deeply informs his take on the play, which centers on the relationships between Indigenous communities and colonial settlers, where both sides continue to struggle to be clearly heard. When the curtains rise, you can be certain that it’s Shakespeare like you’ve never seen before and almost certainly never will again.
Cast will be announced at each performance.
Presented in partnership with Under the Rada