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Shakespeare’s sonnets for Valentine’s Day – the Karp sisters three!

Shakespeare’s sonnets for Valentine’s Day – the Karp sisters three!

              From the Karp sisters three we have a wonderful reading of Shakespeare’s sonnets for Valentine’s Day.  By design we have avoided the better known poems, and each reads ten.  We begin with Ariana,

David Simmons February 14, 2018February 14, 2018 Podcasts, Shakespeare Read more

Shakespeare in O.P.

Not unlike the original instrument movement in classical music (no more playing a Haydn symphony with 100 piece orchestra), many companies are experimenting with using original pronunciation (O.P.) in Shakespeare’s plays. David and Ben Crystal give a good introduction here:

David Simmons January 18, 2018January 18, 2018 Shakespeare Read more

Music from the Age of Shakespeare by Ely Phan

Music from the Age of Shakespeare by Ely Phan

  Ely Phan is a Chicago-based maker of theatre, music, & lattes, with deep roots in Madison, Wisconsin. In work, Phan tries to center the stories and voices of unlikely heroes with complex intersections of identity.   These songs are a

Greer DuBois December 9, 2017December 9, 2017 Podcasts, Shakespeare Read more

The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare

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Meet the Macbeths! Odd though it may seem, we actually see more of their shared, private, married lives than perhaps any other couple in all of Shakespeare’s work.  Mrs. Lear?  No mention.  Othello & Desdemona?  They spend one night together.

Greer DuBois October 26, 2017November 21, 2017 Podcasts Read more

Which Text?

Which Text?

Much of twentieth century Shakespeare scholarship was devoted to arguments as to which was the better source for modern editions – the quartos or the First Folio, published in 1623, some seven years after his death.  The Folio contains 36

Greer DuBois October 16, 2017October 16, 2017 Shakespeare Read more

The Shakespeare Blog

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Thirteen months into the pandemic it seems everyone has heard that Shakespeare wrote King Lear during confinement due to the plague.  Fermat’s board member Ayeshah Emon (now at Trinity College in Dublin) has bought our attention to an interesting UK

wendyvar August 20, 2017March 25, 2021 Blogs, Shakespeare Read more

Troilus & Cressida – 2014

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William Shakespeare’s Troilus & Cressida   Cast Achilles – Bryan Metrish Aeneas – Ari Pollack Ajax – Cricket Agamemnon/Andromache – Isabella Virrueta Cassandra/Diomedes – Daisy Forrester Cressida – Michael Fleischman Hector – Greg Hudson Helen – Alex Roller Musician – Jonas Mirbeth Nestor/Priam –

wendyvar July 26, 2017August 13, 2017 Past Productions Read more

The Merchant of Venice – 2013

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The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare Cast Antonio / Old Gobbo:  Alex Hancock Solanio:  Bryan Metrish Salerio:  Nick Barovic-Hancock Bassanio:  Ely Phan Gratiano:  Patrick Reed Lorenzo:  Bryan Royston Portia:  Greer DuBois Nerissa / Launcelet:  Mya Kahler Shylock:  David Simmons

wendyvar July 26, 2017August 13, 2017 Past Productions Read more

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"Ways of Seeing." Mike Fischer, for World Premiere Wisconsin"

The Arts Generate a Lot of Money. So Why are Artists Broke?" Mike Fischer, for World Premiere Wisconsin

‘Joe Hill, Alive as You and Me’ unites and inspires in Akron

The Songs And Stories Of Working-Class Hero Joe Hill

Hovering Above the Abyss: An Evening With Franz Kafka

Quanda Johnson reads James Baldwin

James Baldwin and the N-word

An Evening With James Baldwin (Tone Madison)

Bertolt Brecht and the Artist's Duty to Truth (WORT)

Mother Courage Alone at Fermat’s Last Theater in Madison by Brandy E. Wilcox, ecibs: Communications of the International Brecht Society, Issue 1 2018

Acting Un-American on WORT on Labor Radio – April 7, 2018

‘Mother Courage' unplugged Fermat theater group pares down Brecht's classic by Aaron R. Conklin, Madison Magazine – Sept. 23, 2017

Scripting "The Trial": Local writer converts a Kafka classic by Aaron R. Conklin, Madison Magazine – June 23, 2016

Free theater: Fermat’s Last Theater Company stages an edgy tale of class, sex and power by Catherine Capellaro, The Isthmus – June 9, 2015

Fermat's Last Theater Company sets a genderqueer "Troilus and Cressida" in a circus ring by Laura Jones, The Isthmus – August 8, 2014

Fermat's Last Theater Company makes a strong debut with "The Merchant of Venice" by Laura Jones, The Isthmus – August 3, 2013

The new kid on the block: Meet Fermat's Last Theater Company
by Jessica Steinhoff, The Isthmus – August 2, 2013

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