Shakespeare: A Celebration
We are delighted to be taking part in the Shakespeare in Sutton Festival this month, in collaboration with FOLIO Sutton Coldfield (Friends of Libraries in our Sutton Coldfield) and Everything to Everybody. The Festival is part of their amazing project to celebrate the incredible collection held in the Shakespeare Memorial Library at the Library of Birmingham, with the Folio itself going on tour!
There are numerous events happening across Sutton Coldfield, including our own here at Highbury Theatre. To celebrate the occasion, the Highbury Players are performing a series of readings from Shakespeare's plays and sonnets, varying from comedy to tragedy and romance, and including both songs and spoofs.
We spoke to a few members of the cast during rehearsals to find out their thoughts on their Shakespearian roles...
Yvonne - We've been rehearsing a Celebration of Shakespeare during the last few weeks. It's been great fun, and quite difficult, and it reminds us just how vast Shakespeare's work was, and is, and how he wrote such wonderful plays. I've been introduced to bloody sections which I didn't know existed!
Sean - I've been very grateful to have the opportunity to play Titus Andronicus and Desdemona... *laughter* Sorry! And Othello! And Hamlet. So, to get to play three parts of that stature in one evening has been a real joy. It's a reminder of the gift that Shakespeare is to us all.
Eliza - Shakespeare, for me, is a great storyteller. There are so many wonderful roles in Shakespeare for both men and women, and I'm very lucky at my age to be playing some of the great roles for women. I get to play Hermia, Olivia, and Juliette and Gertrude. It's fantastic having those opportunities.
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