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Blog and News
Welcome to our blog! We share regular news and updates about our company as well as thought pieces on theatre, acting, directing and the wonderful world of staging Shakespeare.
Top directors, actors & practitioners lead London-based Summer School
Six-day long workshops both daytime and evening at The Playground Theatre Sharing Shakespeare Summer School 14-19 June, 10 to 4.30 and...
Apr 13, 2021
Finalists of the Lockdown Taboo and You Short Play Competition
Shakespeare in Italy is delighted to announce the four finalists in our competition Shakespeare in Italy is delighted to announce the...
Mar 8, 2021
#DailyTelegraph article ' Feeling blue? You need some Shakespeare ' by #ClaireAllfree 05/02/2021
The therapeutic qualities of our greatest playwright can offer solace in our current crisis An article by journalist Claire Allfree in...
Feb 12, 2021
#Workshop with #DameJanetSuzman Feb 8th - Shakespeare and Manias
This will explore #melancholy and #mania focusing on the perennially Eeyorish Jaques in As You Like It & the unrepentent psychopath Iago...
Feb 8, 2021
#Playreading sessions for the #over50's re start on Thursday #14thJanuary #2021 at #2pm.
Come and join the playreading group to have fun reading together - some short plays, some scenes, some longer plays. From Oct - Dec 2020...
Oct 1, 2020
#SnackingonShakespeare - online sessions is restarting on #January11th2021 with #TheWinter'sTale
Mary Chater, a co founder of Shakespeare in Italy will lead #participatory 1 hour long sessions every Monday at #3pm for those who...
Oct 1, 2020
Women's Series - A Celebration of New Writing
Join us for the first in a series of virtual play readings #actors #actorslife #newplays #playreadings #femaleplaywrights Our new series...
May 26, 2020
Day Two Fringe Festival Screening at 7
Today at 7pm on our facebook page we are delighted to feature “Caliban” a play written by Maggie Rose who lives in Milan. The excerpt...
May 4, 2020
Exploring Shakespeare: Time
"In the Globe, dramatic Time expanded and created a form of drama that put the whole world on the stage as best it could." Continuing his...
May 4, 2020
Commedia class launches week of digital festival fringe activity
Sharing Shakespeare Digital Fringe Festival Week of great classes, activities, your video shorts to keep us all connected from Commedia,...
May 2, 2020
Exploring Shakespeare: Age
"capture the spontaneity of personalities less ironic and less understated than ourselves" Our Associate Director Bill Alexander...
Apr 30, 2020
Exploring Shakespeare: Character and Narrative
"The art of rehearsal is to capture moments of potential change, when the direction of life hangs in the balance, when a character might...
Apr 25, 2020
Exploring Shakespeare: Character and Language
"It's never about what the actor can do to the verse, it's about what the verse can do to them." Continuing this fascinating series of...
Apr 20, 2020
Sharing Shakespeare
Click on - to Get on Sharing Shakespeare is our new online digital platform. Find out all you need to know here about our events. #actors...
Apr 20, 2020
Exploring Shakespeare: Design
"Shakespeare paints landscapes with language; he builds sets for you." Fast on the heels of his previous blog, is the sixth in this...
Apr 14, 2020
Exploring Shakespeare: Cutting
"Performance is an encounter between those who have prepared for the occasion and those who haven't. If you doubt - CUT." There has been...
Apr 4, 2020
Exploring Shakespeare: Subtext
"In Shakespeare, characters tend to use language to say exactly what they mean with as much detail and precision as their command of...
Mar 30, 2020
Exploring Shakespeare: Backstory
“The delicate brush strokes – which in rehearsal are pure gold dust” The second in a series of blogs from our Associate Director Bill...
Mar 27, 2020
#6th #internationalsummerschool2020 #Caglitheatre #PUMarche June 26 - July 4 #AMidsummerNightsDream with #EmmaLuciaHands #AsYouLikeIt with #DameJanetSuzman
These two plays will be workshopped in the beautiful Cagli theatre and rehearsal room - A Midsummer Night's Dream on June 27, 28, 29 and...
Jan 12, 2020
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