Playing outdoors in Sport For Jove's Summer Season 7 is the brilliant short one-act comedy, Shakespearealism, by acclaimed Australian actor, writer and film director Josh Lawson.
It’s 1594. Shakespeare’s lesser known brother, Ralph Shakespeare is a playwright is his own right, but centuries ahead of his time. Introducing ‘realism’ to Shakespeare’s acting company and audience was always going to be a challenge, with its psychological detail, it’s pauses and silences, its nuanced subtext and stilted natural dialogue that holds a much truer “mirror up to nature” than his famous brother’s work. But Ralph is not only in his brother’s overwhelming shadow and dealing with actors used to poetic blank verse where they say everything they feel out loud, but he is also up against the promoter / producer too – the great Phillip Henslowe, the man who managed, bought and sold many of Will Shakespeare’s greatest plays in the 1590s.
The players at the Rose Theatre are about to stage their evening performance of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost when Ralph has a private meeting with two actors to work on his latest script.
The play is a comic masterpiece and a searing satire on the way writing has evolved in the centuries since Shakespeare’s poetry rewrote the rule book. It plays as a bonus curtain raiser to Love’s Labour’s Lost throughout the festival season. Don’t miss it.
Performance Dates...
@ Bella Vista, December 11th @7.30pm, 12th @7.30pm, 20th @7.30pm, 21st @7.30pm, 27th @7.30pm, 29th @7.30pm, 30th @8.00pm,
Tickets available HERE
@ Leura, January 9th @6.15pm, 15th @6.15pm, 16th @6.15pm, 23rd @2.45pm, 24th @6.15pm.
Tickets available HERE
