The Viewfinder Podcast with Chris Hadley
Arts:Visual Arts
Episode 060 - SHAKESPEARE REPUBLIC Creator/Director Sally McLean
Universally regarded by academics, filmmakers, playwrights, actors and audiences as the greatest dramatist who ever lived, Sir William Shakespeare penned a rich treasury of plays, poems and sonnets that remain timeless centuries after they were first created and performed. Some of the Bard’s greatest classics, like Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Macbeth, and Much Ado About Nothing, endure because they examine the same things that were as commonplace in his time as much as they are in ours: power, ambition, romance, family, corruption.
Generations of storytellers have been guided by Shakespeare’s unforgettable stories of the human experience, and by the time-honored standards he set for modern drama. One of those storytellers is actor/producer/director Sally McLean, the creator of award-winning web series Shakespeare Republic.
Led by a brilliant international cast performing many of the iconic playwright’s most unforgettable monologues and transforming his famed characters in unexpected yet exciting and groundbreaking ways, Shakespeare Republic’s first two seasons entertainingly breathed new life into the familiar yet sometimes intimidating prose interpreted by actors the world over.
Yet when the first strains of COVID-19 forced the entertainment world into a prolonged intermission last year, McLean and her team of collaborators faced their greatest creative challenge: how to realize what would eventually become the third season of Shakespeare Republic while being physically and geographically separated due to the pandemic.
As you’ll learn from McLean in this interview, the resulting series of orations audiences will see performed in this latest series of Shakespeare Republic - all of which were directed by McLean via Zoom - prove that while times change and crises test even the most patient among us, Shakespeare had much to say about the unending slings and arrows we take on in life today.
Watch seasons 1 and 2 of Shakespeare Republic on Ozflix TV:
Season 1 - https://www.ozflix.tv/#!/browse/tv/944/season/1/shakespeare-republic
Season 2 - https://www.ozflix.tv/#!/browse/tv/944/season/2/shakespeare-republic
Watch season 3 of Shakespeare Republic at:
http://allthewebsastage.com/
Find out more about the acclaimed series, its cast and crew at:
http://shakespearerepublic.com/
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