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Shakespeare & Company's new Conservatory presents The Life & Times of Queen Meg - December 11, 2007
Shakespeare & Company presents two special performances of The Life & Times of Queen Meg, the culminating performance of its first-ever Conservatory program. Shows are Friday, December 14 and Saturday, December 15 at Shakespeare & Company’s Founders’ Theatre at its 70 Kemble Street campus in Lenox. Both performances are at 7 p.m. and tickets are $8. Tickets are available in advance from the Box Office (413-637-3353) and online at www.shakespeare.org. This year’s Fall Festival of Shakespeare participants will be admitted free by showing their 2007 Festival Pass.
The 14-member cast will bring to the stage everything that they have learned during the past three months of their intense training in The Conservatory. The Life & Times of Queen Meg includes spectacular displays of armed combat, conjuration, clowning, triumph of the will, love and some of the most arresting language ever written. Each actor will perform multiple roles in the premiere of this original play based entirely on Shakespeare’s text and created by Shakespeare & Company’s Training and Education Departments.
Led by senior S&Co. artists and teachers under the direction of Associate Director of Training Dave Demke, The Conservatory has provided professional training over the last three months through daily classes in the Company’s acting techniques. The course progression includes Structure of the Verse, Shakespeare Scholarship, First Folio, Art of Rhetoric, Personal Connection, Linklater Voice Technique, Clown, Neutral Mask, Fight, Movement and Elizabethan Dance.
Shakespeare’s first plays of note were his series of history plays chronicling the War of the Roses between England and France, a centuries-long conflict that finally resulted in the establishment of the Tudor dynasty. The Life & Times of Queen Meg is an original embroidery of scenes from three of Shakespeare’s plays in this cycle: Henry VI parts 1, 2 and 3. Through this epic series of defining works, Shakespeare chronicles one of the most powerful, willful and fascinating female characters to take the stage in English-language drama. The Life & Times of Queen Meg focuses on Margaret of Anjou (1429-1482), who led some of the bloodiest battles of the Wars of the Roses. The history plays (including Richard III) chronicle her progression from the seductive warrior seen in Queen Meg to an embittered old woman whose curse is feared by anyone who has crossed her.
The talented cast features Heather Atkinson, Megan Bouchard, Sarah Corey, Ben Foronda, Catherine Glavicic, Britt Grass, Vanessa Graymason, Risher Reddick, Laurie Riffe, Doug Seldin, Erik Sherr, Noah Smith, Teresa Spencer and Grace Trull. |
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