American Voices
CSC's script-in-hand reading series of American classics. The 2010-2011 series featured Anthony Rapp and Jim True-Frost as guest directors alongside CSC Artistic Director Steven Maler, and starred celebrated stage and screen actors Chris Cooper, Jason Butler Harner and Jeffrey Donovan.
Shakespeare and the Law
Presented each season in partnership with the Boston Lawyers Chapter of the Federalists Society and McCarter & English. Shakespeare & the Law features a staged reading of a Shakespeare play (past performances include Othello, The Merchant of Venice and Henry V) performed by local, state and national lawyers, judges and other politicos. The presentation is followed by a panel discussion lead by a moderator.
Tour of the Parks
CSC's touring initiative to local parks. The 2011 summer season features two productions: Shakespeare on Love, a collection of scenes, songs and sonnets from Shakespeare performed by Apprentices enrolled in Summer Apprentice Program, and A Shakespearean Cabaret featuring students from New England Conservatory.
Shakespeare on the Common
A Boston tradition since 1996, CSC has been presenting fully-staged productions of Shakespeare plays free-of-charge to Boston audiences.
Commonwealth Concerts
Sponsored by New England Conservatory, Commonwealth Concerts is a series of pre-show concerts featuring a wide range of musical stylings before performances of Shakespeare on the Common.
Events
Special events--including our Annual Gala--held throughout the year to raise funds to support all of CSC's FREE programming.
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May 24, 2012
New in 2012! Shakespeare & Leadership
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When:
May 24, 2012 6pm
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Venue:
Cutler Majestic Theater, 219 Tremont Street, Boston
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Need to know:
Performance and discussion will be approximately 2 hours long.
Event is FREE and open to the public.
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July 25 - August 12, 2012
CORIOLANUS
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When:
Tuesdays-Saturdays, 8pm; Sundays 7pm; 2 hours and 45 minutes
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Venue:
Parkmand Bandstand @ Boston Common
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Need to know:
There are NO performances on MONDAYS.
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Matinee: July 28th @ 2pm
ASL Performance:
August 11th
For information about chair rentals and reservations, visit the Support US section.
Visit the FAQ page to answer all your questions about attending Shakespeare on the Common.
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Words, Words, Words... An Actor's Journey: Week 10
CSC Apprenticeship---Week Ten!
Closing out the 10-week saga of the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company Apprenticeship was both a relief and a little sad. A relief it was, purely in the physical sense because we had been working so hard for so long. Sad, in the sense that this wonderful creative environment that we learned so much for was ending.
For our final classes together, we had the pleasure of working one on one with Steve Maler in a Master Class on monologues. It was a perfect way to close the program: we were able to implement the techniques and exercises we had learned throughout our program in one final monologue to show Steve. He really took the time with each of us (all 21!) to work as if we were the only person in the class. Really specific to us, really specific to who we are as actors. And he helped us move forward with the pieces.
I chose Lady Macbeth for my final piece. I don't know, maybe I was on a power trip from playing Lady Percy all summer, but I wanted to go powerful, and to delve into the fear, and darkness of the piece.
Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here
And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty!
Make thick my blood, Stop up the access and passage to remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of nature
Shake my fell purpose nor keep peace between
The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts,
And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers,
Wherever in your sightless substances
You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night,
And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,
That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,
Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark
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