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Repertory Season, 28 May-27 Mar. Women of Will, Richard lll, The Winter's Tale, The Comedy of Errors, Sea Marks, The Amorous Quarrel, The Taster. Mengelberg and Mahler, Bad Dates, The Real Inspector Hound, The Santaland Diaries, The Mystery of Irma Vep
Founded in 1978, Shakespeare & Company aspires to create a company that performs as the Elizabethans might have-in love with poetry and physical prowess. The company provides in-depth classical training and performance methods, produces new plays of social and political significance as well as other contemporary plays and, through its education programs, inspires a new generation of students and scholars. It has a resident company that performs on three stages on a rotating repertory schedule for almost a full year. This season, the company's mission is reflected in two world premieres, The Taster and Mahler; a work in progress, Women of Will; in the contemporary plays Bad Dates, Sea Marks, Hound, The Santaland Diaries and Irma Vep; and in the classics-Moliere's The Amorous Quarrel and the three Shakespeare plays.
The education program, one of the most extensive in the Northeast, has reached over a million students since 1978. For the past ten years, Shakespeare in the Courts has worked with juvenile offenders in Berkshire County to "sentence" them to do Shakespeare for a five-week program. The Company runs nationwide professional actor training intensives as well as the National Institute for Teachers of Shakespeare, supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Young actors are classically trained and afforded the opportunity to perform in Shakespeare's plays.
Richard III begins by foreshadowing the conclusion:...