Creek
Shakespeare
Company
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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.
and August
William
Shakespeare's
Julius Caesar
and The Comedy
of Errors
Check
"upcoming
performances"
above for dates
and venues.
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.
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.
