Category: Romeo and Juliet

All call for Director’s Assistant/ Script Secretary in-training

February 16, 2014

All call for Director’s Assistant: The Director’s Assistant is an person who works closely with the director throughout the production process. They are involved at the pre-production stage through to post production marketing and distribution. They must be an underclassmen, well organized, flexible, and have a good overview of the production process. The director will determine … More All call for Director’s Assistant/ Script Secretary in-training

Four centuries of Romeo and Juliet: an overview

August 1, 2013

Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, written around 1595 – 96, although there is no direct evidence of specific performance dates before the restoration. Nevertheless, the early printed text suggest that it was popular from the start; the first quarto of 1597 claims that “it has been often ( with great … More Four centuries of Romeo and Juliet: an overview

The Shakespeare Thefts by Eric Rasmussen

July 12, 2013

Summer Reading List! In Search of the First Folios Six years after Shakespeare’s death,  John Heminge and Henry Condell – two of the actors from his company, The King’s Men – gathered together all of his dramatic works and published them in an impressive 908 page hardback book. Bound in calfskin and measuring fourteen inches … More The Shakespeare Thefts by Eric Rasmussen