Shakespeare By Any Other Name (2023)
Produced by
Presented by
St. Lawrence Market Neighbourhood BIA
Playwright: Vijay Padaki
Director: Joey O’Dael
Venue
Run
August 4th, 2023 – August 27th, 2023
Synopsis
Shakespeare By Any Other Name is to a traditional Shakespeare play what The Harlem Globetrotters is to basketball. It is an opportunity to radically invite the audience into their favourite parts of Shakespeare, while being taken on a fast-paced adventure about what Shakespeare means. This presentation will enliven the park and include spectators like never before – on a practical level, as key scenes, everyone dreams of performing are brought to life – the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet and Caesar’s death “Et tu, Brute?” from Julius Caesar.
This play, told through the perspectives of two young women, morphing between Elizabethan noblewomen to Richard III and his horse to Lady Macbeth, and always the audience’s enthusiastic guides, makes the case that Shakespeare belongs to the people. (dauntlesscitytheatre.com)
Cast
| Tallan Alexander | One |
| Chi-Chi Onuah | Two |
| Andrea Lyons | Understudy |
Creative Team
| Vijay Padaki | Playwright |
| Joey O’Dael | Director |
| Kate Werneburg | Dramaturge |
Production
| Stevie Baker | Head of Production |
| Stevie Baker | Head of Costumes |
| JR Williams | Associate Producer |
| Katherine Hunter | Stage Manager |
| Jacob Howard | Assistant Stage Manager |
