Category: Season Announcement
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A Crown for All Seasons
This season, the Alabama Shakespeare Project invites you to examine the role of “prop”-aganda in early modern drama. When is the crown a prop and when is it a costume? Do you notice any similarities across the plays in how they discuss the crown? What happens when the crown is worn by someone other than…
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Playing Holidays
In this little season, the Alabama Shakespeare Project invites you to join in an experience two plays, Twelfth Night and Cynthia’s Revels, that may have been curated together for the long-reigning woman monarch at the beginning of seventeenth century. Do you get a sense of similar characters? Shared jokes? Do they seem to have a common political message or…
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A Season in Parts
Each season of the Alabama Shakespeare Project is an experiment. This season, we are focusing on a specific research question across the academic year: what does it mean to play a part?