Baltimore Shakespeare Company Presents THE COMPLETE DEATHS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE—THE REMOUNT

The Baltimore Shakespeare Factory (BSF) and Cohesion Theatre Company are producing a repeat performance of their original play, The Complete Deaths of William Shakespeare, written by Alice Stanley, Founding Artistic Producer of Cohesion Theatre and directed by Tom Delise, Founding Artistic Director of BSF.

The Complete Deaths of William Shakespeare - The Remount!, welcomes back all the same actors and production crew for this jubilee of stage combat, bardappreciation, and silliness encompassing every death of every character written into all 37 of Shakespeare's plays (and a new death added that was missed in the first showing). Deaths is also a part of Free Fall Baltimore, a citywide celebration that offers hundreds of free arts & cultural events at participating venues throughout Baltimore City. Held in conjunction with National Arts and Humanities Month, area attractions and organizations showcase the importance of the arts with free concerts, dance and theater performances, festivals, lectures, workshops, art exhibitions, tours and special events.

Tickets are available at BSF's website, http://www.baltimoreshakespearefactory.org/complete-deaths and at Cohesion's website, http://www.cohesiontheatre.org/.

Date, Time and Location of shows:

Friday, October 28, 2016, 8:00 PM
Saturday, October 29, 2016, 8:00 PM
Sunday, October 30, 2016, 4:00 PM
Monday, October 31, 2016, 8:00 PM - SPECIAL PRE SHOW TRICK OR TREAT RECEPTION

All shows are performed at The Great Hall at St. Mary's, 3900 Roland Ave., Baltimore.

The Complete Deaths of William Shakespeare is also an entry in Shakespeare Theatre Association's (STA) Shakespeare's Legacy 400. Legacy 400 will honor the life of William Shakespeare in commemoration of the 400th anniversary of his death, April 23, 1616. Thousands of individuals, theatres, libraries, museums and schools worldwide are participating in multiple initiatives created in partnership with the American Library Association, The Folger Library, and Shakespeare at Notre Dame in the largest celebration of the playwright's works in history.

"It is wonderful to team up with Alice and Cohesion Theatre Company again. We sold out during the first run, so we wanted to bring the fun back," states BSF Founding and Artistic Director Tom Delise.

"I'm excited to bring Deaths back and to add a new death," says Alice Stanley, Cohesion Theatre Company's Founding Artistic Producer. "I really enjoy our continuing partnership."

Alice Stanley (playwright) is a Co-Founder of Cohesion Theatre Company.
Alice has worked as an actor, director, and house manager at various companies in Baltimore. Most recently, they wrote and directed The Political Cabaret at Spotlighter's Theater with Baltimore Improv Group. They also directed Hamlet and A Little Bit Not Normal for Cohesion Theatre Company's Second Season, and were recognized by City Paper as The Best Director of 2016 in their Best of Baltimore Issue. Alice was also the recipient of the Mayor's Individual Artist Award for the Trans* Voices Workshop Series, which won City Paper's Best Stage Series of 2016. They are the winner of the Bad Oracle's B.U.L.S.H.I.T. Award for Best Director, along with Brad Norris, for Edward II at Spotlighter's Theater, which also won Best Play and Best Lighting. They also directed Cohesion's inaugural production of Coriolanus, which won the B.U.L.S.H.I.T. Award for Most Intriguing Stage. In Cohesion's Season 3 they will be directing Henry V along with Jane Jongeward. They are also a playwright, with work featured in the Variations Project, and the Trans* Voices Workshop Series. They have a Bachelor's Degree in Liberal Arts from St. John's College, where they directed Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus.

Tom Delise (Director) founded the Baltimore Shakespeare Factory in 2006 and is the artistic director of the company. He received a BA degree in English from Brockport University and a master's degree in liberal studies from Towson University. For the Factory, he has directed the historic production of The Merchant of Venice in original pronunciation, The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night, The Comedy of Errors, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Macbeth, Love's Labor's Lost, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Richard III, Measure for Measure and co-directed A Midsummer Night's Dream with Chris Cotterman. He has also directed a staged reading of The Famous Victories of Henry V, performed at the American Shakespeare Center.Delise has been a high school teacher for over thirty years and is the author of the book, That Is the Question: The Ultimate Shakespeare Quiz Book.

CAST
Zach Bopst Fighter
Jessica Byars Fighter
Chris Cotterman Fighter
Dominic Gladden Fighter
Melanie Glickman Fighter
Katharine Vary Fighter
Jonas David Grey Zombie Shakespeare
Brad Norris Fighter/Fight Choreographer
Tegan Williams Fighter/Fight Choreographer

ARTISTIC TEAM
Director Tom Delise
Director/Writer Alice Stanley
Stage Manager Heather Johnston
Costume Designer April Forrer

Musician Alice Stanley

About Baltimore Shakespeare Factory
Baltimore Shakespeare Factory (BSF) is a nonprofit organization that entertains, educates, and enriches the Baltimore community by creating performances that inspire audiences with the wonder of William Shakespeare's plays and language.

In order to achieve this mission, BSF has the following strategic priorities:
· to produce the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries by re-creating, as closely as possible, the staging conditions of Shakespeare's time, such as doubling, cross-gender casting, and the use of universal lighting so interaction can occur between the audience and the actors;

· to revive works written in the Elizabethan/Jacobean period thathave become overshadowed in our time by Shakespeare;

· to present these works with unparalleled quality of language, intent, and focus so that the audience effortlessly understands each word and the full spectrum of meaning in these masterpieces;

· to perform one production of Shakespeare's work each season in original pronunciation (OP), the accent of 16th-century England, so Baltimore audiences can experience these works as the audiences of Shakespeare's time would have heard them; and

· to maintain a vibrant education program that consists of summer camps, children's troupes, lectures, and workshops and classes for people of all ages

Cohesion Theatre Company is about Baltimore's artists. We live here, we work here, we play here. We are part of the community, and we've seen a need to grow and prosper that community in as many ways as we can. As a theatre company, we love collaboration. We love immerse theatrical experiences. We love the old ways sitting on a stoop and talking to your neighbors, and the new ways of connecting instantly with the entire world.

Cohesion's mission is to showcase the unity that underlies much of what we consider separate. Society has a habit of creating distinctions: between classical and new works, between artistic disciplines, between companies, and between people of different race, class, and gender. Cohesion examines these distinctions through the lens of Live Theatre with the goal of reaching a deeper understanding of what makes us individuals and what makes us all human.

Cohesion actively seeks out other theatrical professionals, bothindividuals and organizations, and encourages cross promotion, co-production, and collaboration in every facet of the work we do. We believe passionately that when artists combine their talents and energies across disciplines and despite competitive tendencies, what is created becomes greater than the sum of its parts, and what would be a success for one becomes a triumph for all.

Free Fall Baltimore is a program of the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts made possible by presenting sponsor BGE, with generous support from The Abell Foundation, Atapco Properties, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Henry and Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Foundation.

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