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TheShakesForum
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We empower communities through education and performance. Free workshops every Tuesday: https://t.co/FooFzEiKCX


For those of you in or near NYC, join us for our first Shakespeare seminar of 2026 on All's Well that Ends Well! Saturday, January 17th: 5-7 PM with drinks to follow Seminars will be held in the classrooms @pier57_nyc Register here: catherineproject.fillout.com/t/iHJBdo2NBhus

Farewell to Tina Packer, the English-born founder of Shakespeare & Company. Visiting her theater in Lenox, Mass., was long one of my summer highlights. Her work brimmed with energy, wit and a vital command of the language that made Shakespeare make sense to anyone who listened.

Refreshing my curly hair while discussing Shakespeare’s Hamlet #curlyhair #Shakespeare



Today is Twelfth Night, the eve of the Epiphany. It's a time for festivities marking the end of the Twelve Days of Christmas, and the transition from midwinter into the new year: parties, king-cakes, fire rituals, and wassailing to waken the trees from their winter sleep.


In the café attached to our offices there is an Italian lady who calls me 'dottore'. She knows that I work for the Salvation Army rather than at the large hospital nearby, but my PhD is not on my work ID badge. A nickname based on my general demeanour? I don't know. Rum.




That wasn't on our bingo card for 2024 😂🦝

Ok -- Shakespeare characters who could have had their own spin-off. Go. Malvolio's an obvious answer, and Caliban. The Porter would be a great one, too.
