Current
Photo by Alan Hancock
Berlin Walls
A new devised theatre piece created by Pitt-Bradford students.
Using the Berlin Wall, which divided East and West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, as its anchor, the production interweaves stories of division and resilience to explore the questions: What drives us apart? How do we fill the gaps caused by separation?
April 4-7, 2024, Studio Theatre, Blaisdell Hall
Recent
The Wolves
A Play By Sarah Delappe
A girls indoor soccer team warms up. From the safety of their suburban stretch circle, the team navigates big questions and wages tiny battles with all the vim and vigor of a pack of adolescent warriors. By season's end, after all the wins and losses, rivalries and tragedies, they are tested, and they are ready. They are The Wolves.
November 2023
Past productions
The Moors
Studio Theatre, Blaisdell Hall
November 2019
The Intruder
120 School Street, Bradford PA
April 2019
Julius Caesar
Studio Theatre, Blaisdell Hall
November 2018
Celebration (Festen)
Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern
February 2014 @ The Shadowbox
Durham NC
Video Preview: https://vimeo.com/83770761
Age of Arousal
Manbites Dog Theater
June 2009
Durham NC
Books
Shakespeare and Directing in Practice
For the Shakespeare in Practice series from Palgrave, a book about Shakespeare and directing that is not filled with the usual suspects or subjects.
The Shakespeare Handbooks: Shakespeare's Contemporaries
Series Editor.
Like having a dramaturg on your shoulder ... eminently useful volumes on Shakespearean chums like Marlowe, Middleton, Jonson and Webster.
“[The series] proffers elegant, informative, and erudite companions to selected early modern plays. … Students will be especially glad of the extensive line-by-line studies of the texts, which not only help maintain the narrative developments of what can be extremely complex plots adumbrated in occasionally abstruse language, but also provide useful advice on the ways and methods of playing each scene, especially in key dramatic moments.” — Patrick J. Murray, Theatre Journal, Vol. 66 No. 1.
The Routledge Companion to Actors' Shakespeare
20 actors. 20 writers. Countless perspectives on making Shakespeare work on stage.
“The collection as a whole is revelatory … In these deftly managed essays, the voices, styles, and theatrical intelligence of the actors animate each essay with the charisma of intimacy while delivering real insight into the meaning and momentum of individual lines and scenes.” — Julia Reinhard Lupton, SEL, Spring 2014.
“Well-balanced and thoroughly researched analyses. [The authors] demonstrate an acute awareness of the dynamics of the stage … they combine the knowledge of historical and theoretical issues involved in playing Shakespeare with an insight into performance as a process that develops in a clearly defined setting, within a specific cultural context.” — Aneta Mancewicz, Shakespearean International Yearbook Vol. 13.
The Shakespeare Handbooks: Henry V
“Kevin Ewert’s volume in the student-focused Shakespeare Handbooks series on Henry V, A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Afterlife, does several jobs very well, offering commentary on the play itself, an introduction to key modern productions and films, and a guide to contemporary critical thinking and Shakespeare’s own theatrical and cultural contexts. Ewert is particularly interesting on performance, and his lucid and stimulating prose manages to be both accessible and challenging.” — Steve Longstaffe, Year’s Work in English Studies, Volume 88 (2009)
About
Trigorin in The Seagull Photo by Alan Hancock
Kevin Ewert
is a director and theatre educator. He was born in Ontario, Canada, went to school at the University of Toronto and The Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham, UK, and currently teaches at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford.