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The Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company
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Based in Grand Haven, Michigan, the Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company seeks to offer performances of Shakespeare's works to Michigan audiences in a variety of non-traditional theatre venues. Pigeon Creek Shakespeare employs techniques of theatrical performance such as universal lighting and audience contact to adapt its productions to multiple performance venues, and to actively engage audience members in performance. The company's goals are to explore the original theatrical practices of the acting companies of Shakespeare's time; to provide high quality productions of works by Shakespeare and his contemporaries to regional theatre audiences; to provide local actors, directors, and stage managers the opportunity to work with these wonderful scripts and to receive training in an original practice approach to Shakespeare's plays; and to maintain an organizational philosophy in which theatre practitioners participate in the administration of the company on a regular basis.
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Coming in July and August
William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and The Comedy of Errors
Check "upcoming performances" above for dates and venues.
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In Shakespeare’s own time period, acting companies did not rehearse with stage directors as they do in the modern theatre. Instead, the members of the acting company divised the performance themselves. As part of its mission to explore the original staging practices of Shakespeare’s time, the Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company will stage Shakespeare’s slapstick farce of mistaken identities, The Comedy of Errors, as an ensemble-directed production. The performance features Pigeon Creek actors Randy Brown II, Michael Empson, Scott Lange, and Chris S. Teller as two pairs of long lost twins who cause confusion and hilarity.
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William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar takes place in a world of male power and dominance. The Rome of Shakespeare’s play is an arena of male competition, in which the female characters attempt to avert tragedy but find themselves powerless to do so. The Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company takes on this testosterone- filled play with an entirely female cast, exploring the performance of gender and challenging preconceptions of male and female. The play traces the intrigue in Rome as Cassius and Brutus undertake a conspiracy to assassinate Julius Caesar. Alisha Huber directs a cast featuring Pigeon Creek actors Heather Folkvord as Brutus, Katherine Mayberry as Cassius, and Kathleen Bode as Caesar.
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