Play On Shakespeare, the not-for-profit dedicated to exploring the world of Shakespeare in performance through translation and adaptation, has announced their Winter/Spring 2024 Season, beginning on Monday, December 18 via Play On Podcasts.
The series – presented by Next Chapter Podcasts in partnership with Play On Shakespeare – has released Macbeth, Pericles, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Coriolanus amongst various other titles over the last three years.
On December 18, Play On Podcasts will release episode 1 of Romeo & Juliet. The NAATCO / Two River Theater production is translated by Hansol Jung and directed by Dustin Wills – with radio play by Catherine Eaton.
Measure for Measure
Portland State University
March 1 – 9 (preview on February 29)
Translation: Aditi Brennan Kapil
Direction: Karin Magaldi
Location: Lincoln Performance Hall [Portland, OR]
Portland State University’s Professor Karin Magaldi directs Aditi Brennan Kapil’s translation of William Shakespeare’s Measure For Measure, which explores the corrupting influence of power, even for the most virtuous of individuals.
Hamlet
Portland Shakespeare Project in collaboration with the Actors Conservatory
April 12 – 21 (previews on April 10 & 11)
Translation: Lisa Peterson
Direction: Michael Mendelson
Location: 21ten Theatre [Portland, OR]
Portland Shakespeare Project in collaboration with the Actors Conservatory will produce Lisa Peterson’s translation of Hamlet. Tormented by his father’s death and brimming with revenge, Hamlet seeks to avenge his father. As he plots to expose the truth, the lives of Hamlet’s friends and family unravel around him with tragedy on the horizon.
Coriolanus
Presented by Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Portland Center Stage
Produced in association with upstart crow collective and Play On Shakespeare
[Portland Center Stage production]
April 20 – May 19
Translation: Sean San José
Adaption and Direction: Rosa Joshi
Location: U.S. Bank Main Stage [Portland, OR]
Famine threatens Rome and hunger fuels the tensions between the country’s elite and the deprived masses. As civil unrest stirs political upheaval, the war hero Coriolanus is driven to defend and then destroy his own country. Shakespeare’s rare and unique tragedy will be fueled by a dynamic female and non-binary ensemble, and a muscular, movement-focused staging. In partnership with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and upstart crow collective.
Coriolanus will continue with an Oregon Shakespeare Festival production in the summer and fall at Thomas Theatre in Ashland, OR. Further details will be available shortly.
Play On Shakespeare’s DEMOS project is now available on YouTube. The DEMOS project is a series of vibrant, short films that demonstrate side-by-side performances of Shakespeare’s original text and the modern translations featuring extraordinarily talented actors with a wealth of experience performing Shakespeare.
