Words We Get From Shakespeare: Manager
Also appearing in Love’s Labors Lost!
The Green Show: A Free Shakespeare in the Park Tradition
By Kalina Ko, Literary Intern A tradition of the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival is the Green Show. 30 minutes before every Free Shakespeare in the Park production, the intern company performs an original 15-minute educational play which outlines the history of the show and provides a quick synopsis of the story. Interestingly, the Green Show […]
Words We Get from Shakespeare: Gossip
Shakespeare gets credit for being the first to use gossip as both a verb (in Comedy of Errors and All’s Well That Ends Well) and a noun.
Our first Thursday show is this Thursday, July 26 at 7pm at the Memorial Park Amphitheater in Cupertino!
“Two seeming bodies, but one heart”: The Relationship between Helena and Hermia
By Kalina Ko, Literary Intern Recently, the Folger Shakespeare Library published a blog post titled “Six things to look for when you watch ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’.” For the blog post, I submitted a paragraph of my own thoughts on one aspect of the play that I think is important to look out for. Below […]
Words We Get From Shakespeare: Eyeball
Bringing a Magical Forest to Life
By Kalina Ko, Literary Intern 1. The start of the process The decision to stage A Midsummer Night’s Dream was made in September, 2017, nearly a year before the first performance. San Francisco Shakespeare’s artistic director and the director for this play, Rebecca J. Ennals, wanted to create a production that was accessible for […]
Words We Get from Shakespeare
Picnic!
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com See this? You do not have to be this fancy when you bring food to the park for a show. Since this is our 36th year of existence, we know a thing or two about picnic food. In some of our venues, we do evening shows; in other venues, we […]
Shakespeare’s Language
By Kalina Ko, Literary Intern The language Shakespeare used is complex and can be unfamiliar to modern audiences. Take, for example, these first lines of the character, Hippolyta: “Four days will quickly steep themselves in night; Four nights will quickly dream away the time; And then the moon, like to a silver bow New-bent in […]