Intrepid Shakespeare Company Announces First Full Season

Intrepid Shakespeare Company announces its first full season of four plays in traditional repertory with local San Diego actors. Intrepid has also launched their education department, Shakespeare For A New Generation, which brings hour long versions of Shakespeare's plays and workshops to schools all over San Diego.

TAMING OF THE SHREW & KING JOHN
in rep April 23 through June 6 @ Theatre Inc.

TAMING OF THE SHREW

Featuring Sandra Ellis-Troy as Petruchio and Jenni Prisk as Kate.

Intrepid Shakespeare Company is thrilled to be mounting Shakespeare's funny and physical comedy Taming of the Shrew with two of San Diegos most passionate and talented female theatre artists. A bold, modern and timely approach that focuses on the strength of the human spirit and the struggle and triumph of being true to oneself.

Directed by Shakespeare veteran and Artistic Director of Theatre Inc., Douglas Lay. Taming of the Shrew will begin preview performances April 16th and open April 23rd, Shakespeare?s Birthday.

KING JOHN

King John is a highly entertaining political thriller with some of Shakespeare's most interesting characters.

Rarely produced, King John explores the backroom deals that take place between world leaders at major public events and the arrogance of privileged people. Directed by Intrepid co-founders Christy Yael and Sean Cox, featuring Tom Hall as King John. Last produced in San Diego at The Old Globe in 1968, Intrepid Shakespeare Company is excited to present this too much ignored play. Preview performances May 7th at 8pm and May 8th at 2pm. Opening May 8th at 8pm and running through June 6th.

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING & RICHARD II

in rep November and December @ Theatre Inc.

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

The second half of the 2010 season will open with Shakespeare's sharp, smart comedy about the battle of the sexes and what it takes to make love happen. Much Ado About Nothing is the first of a cluster of three comedies written in the space of about a year that represents Shakespeare?s comic genius at its height.

Featuring some of the bard's most beloved characters, Intrepid will present this incredible comedy in rep with Richard II. Director TBA

RICHARD II

One of Shakepeare?s most subtle and poetically enriched plays and the only play in the canon written completely in verse. Richard is the first play in the tetralogies and contains the crime that will unleash a bloody civil war two generations later. Before the hunchbacked Richard III, the War of the Roses of Henry VI, the English victory of Henry V or the tall tales of Falstaff in Henry IV, there was the fall of an anointed king and the usurping of the English throne. Directed by Shakespeare veteran and Artistic Director of Theatre Inc., Douglas Lay, and featuring Intrepid?s Executive Artistic Director Sean Cox as Richard II.

SHAKESPEARE FOR A NEW GENERATION

Intrepid Shakespeare Company is proud to announce their Education Tour: Shakespeare For A New Generation. A new program that takes 50-minute versions of A Midsummer Night?s Dream and Romeo and Juliet, as well as workshops designed to make Shakespeare exciting and relevant, to students of all ages. In-school performance: A troupe of professional actors presents a 50-minute adaptation of a Shakespeare play that is accessible, fun, and relatable.

Grades 3 through 8: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT?S DREAM

Fairies, magic and mischief...a perfect introduction to Shakespeare for any age. An exciting and physical 50-minute version of Shakespeare's magical comedy.

High School: ROMEO & JULIET

Brought to life by modern actors for a modern audience. Swordfights, friendship, rival families, and first love.

Romeo and Juliet is the perfect play for teenagers because in it they see a reflection of themselves. A fastpaced, edge of your seat, 50-minute telling of the greatest love story ever written.

Day of Shakespeare: In one day, students receive six in-class workshops and a 50-minute performance of a Shakespeare play. A Midsummer Night?s Dream is offered to grades 3 through 8. Romeo & Juliet is offered to high school students. The workshops are interactive and engage students in Shakespeare?s stories and characters, language and poetry, and preparation for viewing a live performance. All workshops involve student participation through improvisation, speaking the language and playing with Shakespeare's verse (iambic pentameter). Getting the students actively involved - up on their feet speaking the text - is the most immediate, accessible, and exciting way to engage them in the play.

Playshops: Any Shakespeare play is available to focus on for playshops. Students will gain new insights into Shakespeare's relevance while experiencing the power of his language when they get out of their seats and on their feet to play with Shakespeare's text. Students work with two Teaching Artists to unleash an exciting, immediate, and personal experience of Shakespeare?s language, which they quickly make their own in the acting process. The Teaching Artists will work with the students to relate to the plot and characters of the play and then get them up on their feet to act the text. There is no better and more immediate away to understand and relate to Shakespeare then by doing it. Students at all levels of reading, comprehension and language skills can fully participate. The two Teaching Artists will also perform a few of the key moments of the play in order to better illuminate the story and the language for the students.

Intrepid Shakespeare Company is a theatre company in San Diego committed to bringing the classics to life for a modern audience by focusing on the text and using Shakespeare's words and imagery to tell the story. Intrepid is dedicated to present live theatre to the community in a bold, accessible, affordable way through passion, imagination and language.

For more information, please visit http://intrepidshakespeare.com/Company.html

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