{"id":5316,"date":"2017-03-01T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T16:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=5316"},"modified":"2017-02-28T17:11:54","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T01:11:54","slug":"different-kind-shakespeare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/different-kind-shakespeare\/","title":{"rendered":"A different kind of Shakespeare"},"content":{"rendered":"
By: Ashton Newton\r\nEntertainment Editor<\/pre>\n
Western students are hitting the stage once again with the upcoming performances of Ken Ludwig\u2019s \u201cShakespeare in Hollywood\u201d.<\/p>\n
Directed by Western\u2019s Ted deChatelet, \u201cShakespeare in Hollywood\u201d features a cast of Western students who have been hard at work rehearsing for the play.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2018Shakespeare in Hollywood\u2019 is based around \u2018A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream\u2019 by William Shakespeare. Oberyn and Puck, the two fairies in \u2018A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream,\u2019 come to Hollywood and find themselves in Hollywood by accident and have a bunch of hijinks and run around Hollywood making a bunch of mayhem\u201d said Hunter Atkin, sophomore Bachelor of Fine Arts acti\"\"ng major and cast member.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a fictional story about the making of the film \u2018A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream\u2019 back in the 1930s, it\u2019s a real film\u201d added John Bryant, sophomore Bachelor of Fine Arts theatre major and cast member.<\/p>\n
Much like Western theatre\u2019s previous production \u201cAll in the Timing,\u201d \u201cShakespeare in Hollywood\u201d is a comedy focused on bringing laughs and lightheartedness to campus.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe play’s farcical, which pretty much just means slapstick, ridiculous comedy, way over the top acting, very heightened. It\u2019s hilarious\u201d said Atkin.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith this being a comedy, we get to lighten the mood with the 1930s setting. It makes it easy to go with the setting. Some of the costumes and props we use coincide with it being in the 1930s, so it is harder than if the play was in modern day, but it didn\u2019t make it difficult and we were still able to have fun with it\u201d added Bryant.<\/p>\n
Reflecting on being in the cast, Atkin said, \u201cMy favorite part of being in the cast is that Ted, the director, pretty much let the cast decide what\u2019s happening in the play. He let us do whatever we want. He gave us the scripts, gave us the parts and just let us go, so he had an image in his head, but we really just threw out ideas and just did stuff and he just kept it in and kept integrating all of our ideas together.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTed\u2019s a really good director. A lot of directors will just say \u2018this is what I want, do it this way,\u2019 but what Ted does with his actors is he will give suggestions, but he\u2019ll also trust his actors and see what they will bring to the table. It\u2019s a nice mix of what we can bring and if something doesn\u2019t work, he can fine tune it\u201d said Bryant.<\/p>\n
While working on \u201cShakespeare in Hollywood,\u201d the cast had a great time working together has cast members and as friends. Asked separately about a story that stuck out during rehearsals, Atkin and Bryant reflected on the same event.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur director, Ted, was hanging out and we were rehearsing a bit where one of the characters comes on with a wine glass and gives it to another character very nonchalantly, because he’s the big boss man. We did it a few times and Ted was worried that we were going to drop the wine glass, so he comes up and takes it from one of the characters and asks our stage manager if it was plastic and drops it on the ground, the wine glass shattered and we had to take five minutes to clean it up. It was hilarious\u201d said Atkin.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody just bust out laughing, it was really funny. We haven\u2019t gotten to a stressful point overall where we\u2019re too stressed about the play or things are tense. It feels really chill throughout because we\u2019re working on such a fun show\u201d added Bryant.<\/p>\n
In the end, \u201cShakespeare in Hollywood\u201d is a fun, audience pleasing comedy.<\/p>\n
\u201cOverall, I hope this is a show audiences get to enjoy. It\u2019s a farce, it\u2019s a chance to kick back and have a laugh. I hope it\u2019s an opportunity for students and faculty of Western who may have busy lives, so I hope it\u2019s a chance to leave this world and get immersed in this. Not for our sake, but to give everyone a break from the stresses of life\u201d said Bryant.<\/p>\n
\u201cShakespeare in Hollywood\u201d runs in Rice Auditorium from March 2-4 and 8-11 at 7:30 p.m. with March 5 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $14, $10 for seniors and $8 for Western students.<\/p>\n
Contact the author at journalentertainment@wou.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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