Shakespeare in the Theatre: Tina Packer
Series:
Shakespeare in the Theatre;
Publisher: The Arden Shakespeare
Date of Publication: 11 July 2024
Number of Volumes: Hardback
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This book examines the work of acclaimed director Tina Packer, founder of Shakespeare & Company, whose ground-breaking approach to performing Shakespeare has made her company among the most vibrant and enduring Shakespeare theatres in America.
Tina Packer directed her first Shakespeare play at London Academy for Music and Dramatic Art in 1971. Fifty years later she still directs and teaches at Shakespeare & Company, which she founded in Lenox, Massachusetts in 1978. Drawing on new interviews with the original casts and creative teams as well as Tina Packer herself, this book is the first comprehensive analysis of all of her professional Shakespeare productions in their cultural and historical context.
Over a career that spans 5 decades, Packer has directed or acted in all of Shakespeare's plays as well as many others. As artistic director she guided her company through times of expansion as well as belt-tightening, driven by her conviction that the purpose of theatre is to heal and that to fulfil that purpose, acting must tell the truth. With in-depth case studies of 11 of her most significant productions, Katharine Goodland offers a clear account of Packer's work and contribution to Shakespearean theatre in America while illuminating the embedded nature of regional Shakespeare in communities across the United States.
Tina Packer directed her first Shakespeare play at London Academy for Music and Dramatic Art in 1971. Fifty years later she still directs and teaches at Shakespeare & Company, which she founded in Lenox, Massachusetts in 1978. Drawing on new interviews with the original casts and creative teams as well as Tina Packer herself, this book is the first comprehensive analysis of all of her professional Shakespeare productions in their cultural and historical context.
Over a career that spans 5 decades, Packer has directed or acted in all of Shakespeare's plays as well as many others. As artistic director she guided her company through times of expansion as well as belt-tightening, driven by her conviction that the purpose of theatre is to heal and that to fulfil that purpose, acting must tell the truth. With in-depth case studies of 11 of her most significant productions, Katharine Goodland offers a clear account of Packer's work and contribution to Shakespearean theatre in America while illuminating the embedded nature of regional Shakespeare in communities across the United States.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Series Preface
Preface
Introduction
1. For the Joy of Living in his Great Poetry
2. And We'll Look, not at Visions, but at Realities
3. What a Dream Was Here!
4. Kol Nidre
Appendix: Productions Directed by Tina Packer
Notes
References
Index
Acknowledgements
Series Preface
Preface
Introduction
1. For the Joy of Living in his Great Poetry
2. And We'll Look, not at Visions, but at Realities
3. What a Dream Was Here!
4. Kol Nidre
Appendix: Productions Directed by Tina Packer
Notes
References
Index
