"The founder and artistic director of the company, Ross Williams, told me that in large part, it means exploring “how we can get Shakespeare to work for a new generation, for new audiences.” And they’re serious about changing up the setting where necessary: their projects include a Shakespearean pub crawl, where at each location, a scene breaks out. They call it … Shakesbeer. (C’mon. Wouldn’t you?)"
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‘Kickstart Shakespeare’: Of Sonnets, Beer, And Online Fundraising : Monkey See : NPR
YES I definitely would, that is amazing. Back their Kickstarter, they’re really close with 31 hours to go! Haven’t you always wanted to Kickstart Shakespeare?
(via housingworksbookstore)YES. Shaksbeer. +1.
![Inspired by the wonderfully unusual life of Isabelle Eberhardt, Songs from the Uproar is acclaimed composer Missy Mazzoli’s largest and most ambitious project to date. Working in collaboration with a filmmaker, an acclaimed librettist, and a director, Mazzoli will bring Eberhardt’s journals to life as a fully-staged opera — an achievement when one considers the subject matter:
Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904) was one of the most unusual and independent women of her era. She was born in Switzerland but left home at age 19 to travel alone through North Africa. She dressed as an Arab man, joined a Sufi order, fell in love with an Algerian soldier, was nearly assassinated, roamed the desert alone on horseback, and eventually drowned in a desert flash flood at age 27. Her journals [were] salvaged from the wreckage of that 1904 flood.
The massive production is set to premiere at The Kitchen this February, but it premiere’s as our Project of the Day right now.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lytvulPs7I1qzbiclo1_500.png)
