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A Season in Parts

10/5/2021

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Elizabeth E. Tavares, artistic director

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?

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Much Ado About a Prefix

10/4/2021

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Charles Bell, company member

In a review of Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing (2013), Shiela O’Malley states, “Beatrice and Benedick steal the show, though, in this version and in every version I’ve seen, on film or on stage.”[1] O’Malley is not alone in this focus on Beatrice and Benedick. Claire McEachern calls them “the darlings of the theatre,” a couple “whose sparring and eventual capitulation to each other has kept people laughing and weeping for centuries.”[2] Those familiar with the film versions of the play directed by Kenneth Branagh (1993) and later Whedon can picture the way their love story finishes: Hero and Claudio have been reunited, and Beatrice and Benedick resort to their old habits, denying their love for each other and bickering. In the end, however, Benedick exclaims, “Peace! I will stop your mouth” (5.4.85), and they finally kiss.
Or do they?

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“Look’d upon her with a [dramaturg’s] eye”: Artistic Agency, Characterization, and Plot

9/28/2021

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Candace Lilford, production dramaturg, and Riley S. Stewart, research assistant

What might the early modern actors’ part look like for William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing? What might cutting together these scripts, sometimes referred to as “role” or “cue,” illuminate about characters, plot, and the text as a whole? As dramaturgs, what should be considered when cutting for live performance? All of these questions have been considered by our team at Alabama Shakespeare Project (ASP), as we prepare for our upcoming production of MAAN.
Seven scrolls used in performance

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