It is our great pleasure to announce the dates for the #CymbelineAnthropocene Performance Festival and Symposium, which will take place between July 18th-20th, 2022! Mark your calendars now--wherever you are in the world--and stay tuned to our website and social media for event details soon. 

Today's post continues our glimpse at playwright, director, and actor Mónica Maffía's rehearsal notes for Cimbelino en Patagonia. This installment hints at some of Mónica's focus in adapting the tumult, beheadings, and funerals of Act 4. Read Mónica’s original Spanish text below, or scroll further down for our English translation. 

A recent article by UC Merced writer Juan Flores, featured in the Merced County Times, announces an exciting update about Imogen in the Wild: mainly, the film is now available with full subtitles!

In Fall of 2021, Argentinian playwright and director Mónica Maffía began rehearsing an adaptation of Cymbeline with her fledgling company, Setebos. Beginning during her artistic residency at El Cultural San Martín in Buenos Aires, Mónica has shared installments from her rehearsal notes to give Cymbeline in the Anthropocene a glimpse at the productions progress and reflections. To read part 1 of these thematic sneak peeks, click here, and read below for part 2. The text is presented in Mónica’s original Spanish, with an English translation below. 

On January 12th, Cymbeline in the Anthropocene project leader Randall Martin participated in a panel on Shakespeare and Green Theatre hosted by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, alongside CA collaborators Katie Brokaw and Paul Prescott. Today, the CA blog presents a full transcript of Randall's, alongside the Trust's freely available recording of the entire panel conversation. 

The Cymbeline in the Anthropocene team is glad to open the new year by participating in a panel hosted by the Shakespeare Birthday Trust. Taking place tomorrow, January 12th, "Shakespeare and Green Theatre" is a free, virtual presentation featuring CA's project leader Randall Martin alongside Shakespeare in Yosemite's Katie Brokaw and Paul Prescott. 

On the eve of the winter solstice, Cymbeline in the Anthropocene project leader Randall Martin reflects on the theatrical brilliance and the ecological revelations that glinted through another dark year.  2021 brought many hard lessons to the world, to theatre artists, and to Cymbeline in the Anthropocene, but with these also came hope, innovation, and many an adaptation. 

As 2021 draws to a close, it is shocking to reflect on how tumultuous this year has been--theatrically, ecologically, and globally. Join us today as we take a month-by-month journey back through our blogs as we documented this chaotic and remarkable year. 

In this second instalment of this two-part review, Randall Martin considers the original music and genre-diversity of Shakespeare in Yosemite's recently released film adaptation, Imogen in the Wild.

This is the first of a two-part blog review on Shakespeare in Yosemite's recently released film adaptation, Imogen in the Wild. In this first installment, Cymbeline in the Anthropocene Project Leader Randall Martin considers the film’s adapted plots and characters.