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Current

 
 

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Timon is rich.  Timon is generous.  Timon has the best parties.  People love Timon.  But when the money suddenly runs out ... people stop taking Timon's calls.  What is the real price of a transactional society?  Shakespeare's prickliest play gets a contemporary rethink and an atmospheric staging all through our theatre spaces.  Ticket includes hors d'oeuvres.

November 14-17, 2024, Blaisdell Hall

 

 

Recent

 
 

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

 
 

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 ConcernFebruary 2014 @ The ShadowboxDurham NCVideo Preview: https://vimeo.com/83770761Indyweek Best Theatre 2014Indyweek ReviewFive Points Star Review

Celebration (Festen)

Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern

February 2014 @ The Shadowbox

Durham NC

Video Preview: https://vimeo.com/83770761

Indyweek Best Theatre 2014

Indyweek Review

Five Points Star Review

Age of ArousalManbites Dog TheaterJune 2009Durham NCIndyweek Best Theatre 2009Indyweek ReviewCVNC Review

Age of Arousal

Manbites Dog Theater

June 2009

Durham NC

Indyweek Best Theatre 2009

Indyweek Review

CVNC Review

The PillowmanManbites Dog TheaterMay 2007Durham NCIndyweek Best of Theatre 2000-2009

The Pillowman

Manbites Dog Theater

May 2007

Durham NC

Indyweek Best of Theatre 2000-2009

 

Books

 
 
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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.

 
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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.

 
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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.

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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)

Available here

 

About

Trigorin in The Seagull     Photo by Alan Hancock

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.