Cast in Guerrilla Shakespeare Project’s Upcoming Tragedy of Arthur
Cast in Guerrilla Shakespeare Project’s Upcoming Tragedy of Arthur
Saturday, December 15, 2012
I have been a fan of Guerrilla Shakespeare Project’s work since I moved to NYC, so I am so very happy to be a part of their latest production: The Tragedy of Arthur.
I’ll be playing two roles: Sister in the frame story and Mordred in the supposed Shakespeare play about King Arthur.
Here’s a bit of info from GSP and a link to donate if you would like to support the new production! Click here to go to their website.
“The Guerrilla Shakespeare Project is proud to announce the world premiere production of THE TRAGEDY OF ARTHUR BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, A PLAY BY ARTHUR PHILLIPS. Having always approached Shakespeare's texts as if they were new work, Guerrilla Shakespeare is ecstatic to hold the exclusive rights to the first "Shakespeare" premier in over 400 years.
GSP originally hosted a sold out reading of acclaimed author Arthur Phillips' play at The Public Theater last summer that American Theater Magazine called a "full-throttle reading" of a "swashbuckling, blood-and-guts five-act history play". Mr. Phillips was so impressed by the reading that he has agreed to collaborate with Guerrilla Shakespeare, and together we will create a full stage production of THE TRAGEDY OF ARTHUR in New York City. "If Shakespeare had just finished a new play in 2011, I am confident that GSP is the company he would turn to for the premiere." says Phillips.
THE TRAGEDY OF ARTHUR centers around the discovery of a lost Shakespeare play and the doubts surrounding its origins. It is an evening of fraud, forgery and illegitimacy, and the story of King Arthur from the Bard's point of view. It is an epic tale of war, love and the audacity (folly?) of peace. "There's only war. 'Tis man's inheritance." (Act IV, Scene I)
King Arthur is a play full of Shakespeare's language, poetry, insight, drama, beauty, and history; yet it's not by Shakespeare. But then again, even Will didn't know he was "Shakespeare". "What man knows aught of his chronicle?" (Act V)
Does our birth decide our destiny? Can a bastard be a king? Can a modern man write Shakespeare?