Thinking about Shakespeare ... and Schiller

This is Helen Merino as Mary Stuart in Schiller's play. I am now working on Midsummer.. as a 1960's rock musical.... but the text of both plays are such a gift... blissful.... this is my 5th DREAM but the language is still thrilling. We have a great team of actors... some new to Austin Shakes and that is always good. More fun to com!

Austin Shakespeare is one of first in U.S. to do MARY STUART

From Peter Oswald's new adaptation of Schilller's : “I am not like the Stuart,/Who gave herself exactly what she wanted./Denied herself no pleasure, drunk a river/Of bliss!”

I am over the moon to be direct (and currently) auditioning actors for this thrilling work!

Everyone judges by appearances, no one bothers to fathom the realities.

---- Elizabeth

Gleaming, instense, Mary Stuart*… The Obserser

power-shifting, revealing, thrilling, acting to the hilt,

“startlingly modern,” (the Independent)

gripping, tightly structured, double portrait, dignified, riven w rage, darkly funny, fluid, elegant, queens glide to a terrible collision course, crackling w gun powder

Modern society is no stranger to the perils of religious extremism!

Peter Oswald's lucid, pacy translation

shifting power dynamics...personal struggle

“unforgettable” The Daily Mail

Schiller's 200-year-old play the sensibility of a modern political thriller.

Getting Ready for Austin Shakespeare 25th Anniversary Party

Getting ready to go to Mandola's Vinyard for a "masque" to raise money for FREE Shakespeare in the Park and for education programs. Should be fun with great Italian Food... an Austin-tatious atmosphere... music from the Lute and dancing from American Repertory Company from U.T. and folks in Costume and Mask. Should be fun too... 25 years of bringing FREE Shakespeare to Austin, TX.

A strong message to Black Street

“A strong message to Black Street”

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