Articles of Interest
Tim Carroll on Shakespeare Link
"Every theatre performance is a kind of game," begins Tim Carroll, illustrating his vision of directing theatre in this interview on Shakespeare Link UK's website. A part of Shakespeare Link's "Sharing Shakespeare" series, Carroll's interview offers insight into how a director makes (and sometimes breaks) the game rules of every performance.
Shakespeareans for #BlackLivesMatter
As numerous theatres and arts organizations take action in solidarity with Black Lives Matter, Shakespeare's Globe has joined the global movement.
Cymbeline Anthropocene Playlist
If music be the food of love, Cymbeline in the Anthropocene is feasting on this Spotify playlist put together by our collaborators.
COVID-19, the Anthropocene, Cymbeline
The new coronavirus is a frighteningly accelerated version of the incremental disruptions of climate change. Both are Anthropocene crises because they confound or collapse connections between local and global environments normally believed to be safely distanced and manageable. Here I'll explore how a COVID-19 context affects the roles of Jupiter and Giacomo, and alters the emotional – and potentially transformative -- impacts of the play’s tragicomedy.
Finding the Pink Flower in the Scorched Landscape: A Discussion with Our Collaborators
Cymbeline in the Anthropocene group discussion of the play's ecology on Day 2 of the Santa Barbara meeting, January 25, 2020.
Greening the Theater: Taking Ecocriticism from Page to Stage
In the past three decades ecology has lit a greening fire across disciplines, from environmental history to environmental management, from ecofeminism to green economics. Greening artistic values have spawned land-art, site-specific dance, nature writing, and music with whales.