Hello all you graphically savvy people! I'm directing Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, aka the first great Elizabethan revenge tragedy, in a couple of months. I need a graphic designer to design the look for posters, marketing, program, whatever. I thought I would mine the talent on livejournal, especially as it is full of theatre lovers, early modern lovers, and creative people all around.

You can find the script on google books, project gutenburg, and other various places online. It's a fascinating piece, and I highly encourage you to check it out. Basically, it's possible that the Hamlet we know would not have existed without the influence of this play.


If you are interested in this project, send me a message. Aesthetically, I believe in blood and gore. I hate when people die on stage and there is no blood. I like my violence on stage intense. (The blood work in the RSC Histories was aweseome!) I'll be staging this play in the round, to highlight the "world as stage" idea that this play uses so well. There is a frame narrative AND a play-within, so the structure is a bunch of concentric circles like this: audience - Revenge and the Ghost - Royal Court of Spain - the play about Soliman and Perseda.

I'll also be setting the play in modern day. I want the look to be real, but intensified. The kind of look you find in today's modern revenge movies like Kill Bill of V for Vendetta.

I have a few ideas for the tag line for advertising, but I'll hold back on revealing those and let you read the script first.

If this is inappropriate to post here, I apologize, and will promptly remove.

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Dear friends! Does anybody has Purcell`s "Dido and Aeneas" in his musical archive?
I need  the air "Dido's lament" for my theatre. Can anybody be so kind as to share this track with me?

I found this whilst surfing today. 
http://www.2luck.com/pages.php?&menuid=123#    Be worth seeing if it happens!!  I might even have to go to States for holidays!!

Hi guys,
Could anyone who has seen this season's non-Shakespearean plays tell me about their impression and suggest me which play to go and see next? I ran out of Will-plays and now don't know what to choose!

Thanxalot :)

http://living.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1514742007

Nice article and interview ... talks about the Globe.

CHICHESTER Festival Theatre's Shakespeare theme continues this summer in the Minerva Theatre with Mark Rylance's The BIG Secret Live I Am Shakespeare Webcam.

While conceived and written by Rylance, the company will devise the piece through rehearsals.

Colin Hurley plays William Shakspere, Juliet Rylance plays Mary Sidney, Alex Hassell plays Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, and Roddy Maude-Roxby plays Sir Francis Bacon

So did any one get to see the Comedy Store Players?? ... It was HILARIOUS ... a hoot ... I was lucky enough to be on duty (I'm a Globe Steward) So I got to see it for free ... ho ho ... though obviously watching out for photography and fainters and generally doing my job ... it was amazing :D ... Josie Lawrence WOW!

The Globe is the MOST amazing theatre ... everything looks great there ... Merchant is my current favourite ... though I am looking forward to seeing what they do with Love's Labours .. any who

LOVE fellow GlobeFans xx

This is so worth seeing!  It had first perf on Sunday afternoon at the Globe and now it's on tour!  See these for info  :-)

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/article-23401009-details/Camper+van+takes+globe+on+tour/article.do

and the tour is going all round the UK which is super!   http://www.shakespeares-globe.org/theatre/globetouring/

Thanks for the responses to my last question. I think we're going to try to see Merchant.

Catch is, it's playing the evening we arrive -- and we don't know how jet lagged we'll be -- or a Saturday matinee.

If we want seats (and I will want to sit; can't stay on my feet long enough to groundling), how likely will it be that we can get them day of the show?

Thanks in advance. I saw the Exhibition my last visit to London, but it was November so no shows were playing. Seeing a play @ the Globe is one of my must-see experiences.