Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast

Mya Gosling is the creator and artist of Good Tickle Brain, the definitive three-panel stick-figure Shakespearean web comic, and we got to chat about Shakespeare and comics (and musicals and Gilbert & Sullivan) when our paths recently crossed at the … Continue reading →

Everybody loves a detective story, and a detective story involving a genuine Shakespeare artifact is irresistible. Former DC cop and NEA fellow Quintin Peterson is a crime novelist and stage door guard at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC. His … Continue reading →

We just closed our world premiere of William Shakespeare’s Long Lost First Play (abridged) at the Folger Theatre in Washington DC, and the critical consensus (thankfully) is glorious. We review the gamut of opinions (including the one or two negative ones) … Continue reading →

Richard Schoch is Professor of Drama at Queen’s University in Belfast, and the author of “Not Shakespeare: Bardolatry and Burlesque in the 19th Century.” Richard was working at the Folger Shakespeare Library during our first week there and wrote a blog post about … Continue reading →

We opened the world premiere of William Shakespeare’s Long Lost First Play (abridged) last weekend at the Folger Shakespeare Library as part of the international hoopla surrounding the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death in 1616. We go backstage behind the … Continue reading →

Doctoral candidate Ronan Hatfull is visiting Washington DC from the University of Warwick in Coventry, England. He’s here to research 21st Century interpretations of Shakespeare, and focusing on the work of the Reduced Shakespeare Company. We asked Ronan to talk about his … Continue reading →

We’re deep in rehearsal for the world premiere of William Shakespeare’s Long Lost First Play (abridged), which we open next week at the Folger Theatre in Washington, DC. And naturally, being this close to a major opening, the anxiety dreams known … Continue reading →

Tiger Reel has directed several productions of William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, and he talks about the discoveries he’s made working on this fascinating and difficult play. Featuring the struggles of creating human characters, juggling tones, training a young padawan, possibly inappropriate … Continue reading →

Long-time RSC actor John Schwab and photographer Matt Humphrey have created the beautiful new book Curtain Call, an invaluable collection of photographs and interviews celebrating the amazing variety of London theatre in the year 2015. The book is both a handsome collectible … Continue reading →

Kurt Quinn (left) is the latest actor to join the RSC ranks so, as is tradition, we scheduled a travel day from hell to welcome him. Featuring lengthy delays, lost luggage, stern Budget requirements, Groundlings training, the challenges of working actors … Continue reading →

Our recent trip to Qatar included school performances and workshops, and a private performance at the British Embassy. Austin Tichenor, Dan Saski, and Tiger Reel talk about this trip to a part of the world the RSC rarely visits, and … Continue reading →

Christy Burgess is the director of the Robinson Shakespeare Company, a project of the Robinson Learning Center in South Bend, Indiana. The other “other RSC” is designed for students from grades three through twelve, and its young actors have gone on … Continue reading →

Scott Jackson is the executive director of Shakespeare Notre Dame at Notre Dame University, and one of the founders of the Shakespeare in Prisons Network, a global forum that promotes and advocates for the production and study of the plays … Continue reading →

Set designer and board game designer Alan Ernstein talks about the practice and philosophy behind the designing of board games. Featuring the important of mechanics and theme, popular types and templates, figuring out puzzles, lots of research, games that move beyond roll/move/react, … Continue reading →

As Austin Tichenor begins to direct his adaptation of Jasper Fforde’s The Eyre Affair at Valparaiso University, Assistant Professor of Design/Theatre Alan Ernstein talks about the job of the set designer and about the fun and challenges of creating a space … Continue reading →