A slice of history and an epic love story combine to make Antony and Cleopatra spellbinding theatre, says Shakespeare By The Sea’s co-artistic director Elizabeth Murphy. “People have an amazing familiarity with this story,” she says, as the cast and crew begin to trickle into the Park Place Theatre space to begin a day of […]
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Going Hamlet
Hamlet. You’ve seen it before, and you’ll see it again. Why? Because each production mines something different from Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy. In the terrific SBTS version, Rhys Bevan-John is part sullen, sarcastic youth and part self-doubting man. He brings a wonderful intensity to the character and delivers the many so-familiar lines with unique twists that […]
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Snow White
Do conjoined twins count as one person? Is Windex poisonous? Is Patrick Swayze an effective life model? These are but a few of the questions raised by SBTS’s highly original take on Snow White. Halifax has come to expect catchy music, zany antics and clever pop culture references from this company’s family shows, and Snow […]
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The Bard’s CSI
Good news. If you’re tired of those SVU and CSI summer reruns but really need a fix of blood, sex and madness, Shakespeare by the Sea’s Macbeth is the perfect answer. The production literally drips with blood and crackles with energetic sword fights. Genevieve Steele as Lady Macbeth wields sex as handily as the men […]