Tweeting “And there goes the last ten years of my life,” Charlene V. Smith, Artistic Director of Brave Spirits Theatre, announced the cancelation of the company’s Shakespeare’s Histories. Performing Shakespeare’s eight history plays, in rep, in two years, was an epic undertaking, and for Brave Spirits, its first few months of the run were successful, […]
Review: Henry the Fifth from Brave Spirits. The last show standing is closed by COVID-19
Brave Spirits opened Henry the Fifth this past weekend, and then closed it due to the COVID-19 pandemic with the hope to return in a few weeks. A shame, for a multitude of reasons not limited to the art being presented onstage all too briefly at the Lab at Convergence, because it is another solid […]
Defining and defending the gray area: the invisibility of small professional theatre
I’ve spent nearly three decades working in nominally professional theatre. That is to say non-Equity but (usually) paid, albeit below a living wage, but with enough EMC points to join. Two theatre degrees, worked with some famous people, garnered multiple awards and nominations, co-founded a theatre company in Boston that’s still going strong, etc. In […]
Review: Brave Spirits’ Henry the Fourth, Part 2. Strong cast. Superb Falstaff.
Brave Spirits’ two-year repertory of Shakespeare’s history cycle continues with an impressively lively production of one of the Bard’s more challenging plays, Henry the Fourth, Part 2. After Part 1 fell a bit short on delivering the expected thrills and energy from a superior script, Part 2 reassures me that matters are well in hand. […]
Review: Henry the Fourth, Part 1 – A Monarchy… if you can keep it.
(First off: my sincere apologies to the company for my constant coughing through the performance.) Henry Bolingbroke, having snatched the English crown with boist’rous hands, must now struggle to keep it. The alliances he forged now fraying to the point where his allies become enemies, while his eldest son Prince Hal seemingly more concerned with […]
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