The Tempest for our Time
The newly launched Globetrotting Shakespeare presents an international online theater experience of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
WATCH RECORDED PERFORMANCE on YouTube https://youtu.be/yaaecSks0i0
In this moment of isolation, reflection, and transformation, Shakespeare artists across 4 countries will come together digitally to present a live stream performance of The Tempest for our Time.
Tickets: This is a DONATE WHAT YOU CAN event.
Journeying to Prospero’s digital island are theatre makers and artists representing Shakespeare Napa Valley, Shakespeare by the Sea, Prague Shakespeare Company, Atlanta Shakespeare Company at the Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse, Shakespeare at Notre Dame, and The University of Houston. The actors will be participating remotely, and the event will be live-streamed through thestreamingtheatre.com.
Contributions to the event will benefit Prague Shakespeare Company’s Summer Shakespeare Intensive, a transformational classical theater training, performance, and mentorship program that takes place each summer in the Czech Republic.
In April 2020, Prague Shakespeare Company announced that its world-renowned Summer Shakespeare Intensive had to be canceled this year due to the devastating Coronavirus pandemic. Artists, scholars, and students from all over the world were to gather in Prague for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to train and perform Shakespeare’s great plays in Europe’s most historic venues including Prague Castle and the Czech National Theater’s Estates Theatre – where Mozart premiered Don Giovanni in 1787.
This is a devastating artistic, educational, and financial loss. While other countries, such as Germany, have committed billions of Euros to support the arts, the Czech Republic has yet to provide any financial relief to arts organizations and theatre companies whose livelihood depends on public engagement and performances.
All of the artists featured in the Globetrotting Shakespeare’s The Tempest for our Time represent theater leaders, directors, and actors, who have all worked for Prague Shakespeare Company. Ariel in The Tempest of our Time, represented as five elements, will be played by alumni of the Prague Shakespeare Company Summer Intensive.
This coming together from around the world demonstrates the microcosm of the kind of artistic company PSC creates – uniting a world through the words of William Shakespeare – a vision that Globetrotting Shakespeare and Prague Shakespeare Company both share.
When: 11 July 2020 at (11:00 Pacific /13:00 Central / 14:00 Eastern/ 20:00 Prague Time).
Where: Watch on The Streaming Theatre Website here: https://thestreamingtheatre.wixsite.com/home/livestream or on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/thestreamingtheatre“
Tickets: This is a DONATE WHAT YOU CAN event.
Donate to Prague Shakespeare Company by Credit Card through PAYPAL HERE. All Options for donating by check can be found at https://www.pragueshakespeare.com/support-psc.html.
All contributions will help ensure PSC’s commitment to training the next generation of theatre artists that will continue a tradition of excellence and artistry.
Team (link to bios)
Produced by: Jennifer King & Suzanne Dean
Directed by: Jennifer King, Suzanne Dean, Carolyn Johnson, Laura Cole
Performers: Jim Johnson, Scott Jackson, Suzanne Dean, Jennifer Le Blanc, Aaron Wilton, Joel Bryant, Laura Baranik, Karel Heřmánek, Matthew Cowell, Benjamin Stowe, Jessica Romero, Abbe Fralix, Ray Jacildo, Ross Turkington, Nadina Espinosa, Bailey Smith
Backgrounds: Levi James Johnson
Music: The overture from “The Tempest” by Geraldine Mucha, by permission of John Mucha and The Mucha Foundation. Hradec Králové Philharmonic Orchestra, Andreas Sebastian Weiser Conductor.
Ariel’s Songs: “The Goddesses”, “Full Fathom Five”, “Where the Bee Sucks” “Awake, Awake” and “Come Unto These Yellow Sands” composed by Bo Gaiason, Resident Composer for The Atlanta Shakespeare Company.
Sound Designer: Matthew Cowell
Tempest Cutting: Edited from a Tiffany Antone adaptation
Technical Engineer: Kevin Kemp, The Streaming Theatre
Producing Sponsor:
Supporting Sponsors: County of Napa and Penny Pawl
Learn about the Prague Shakespeare Company / Summer Shakespeare Intensive 2021