Bottled Poetry & The Bard
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Bringing year-round professional productions featuring the world’s greatest actors, directors, musicians and theatre companies, NapaShakes is working to establish Napa Valley as a major destination for classical theatre, with the highest-quality performances on par with the Valley’s unparalleled culinary, wine, hospitality and scenic attractions.
And NapaShakes is committed to fostering an understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare’s life, times and writings through fun and challenging educational and community outreach programs benefitting residents, students and visitors alike.
All the Napa Valley's a Stage
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"This Blessed Plot" film
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Spectacular Screenings
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Thrilling Performances
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Community Enrichment
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Shakespearean Scribblings
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We Few, We Happy Few
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Make a Date
Hey Nonny Napa Valley!
“Boldness Be My Friend”: An Essay on Cymbeline by members of New York’s Fiasco Theater
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An essay from the book “Living With Shakespeare,” entitled “Boldness Be My Friend,” written by Jessie Austrian, Noah Brody, and Ben Steinfeld of New York’s Fiasco Theater “Cymbeline is often thought of as a problematic play. Or a bad play. Or a just plain silly piece of theatrical meringue. It shifts…
CSI Shakespeare: Julius Caesar
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Beware the Ides of March! The Roman leader Julius Caesar was stabbed 23 times by a mob of mutinous senators in 44 B.C. Could he possibly have survived long enough to utter his famous last words “Et Tu, Brute”? Watch the History Channel’s video: Coroner’s Report: Julius Caesar NapaShakes presents Globe…
Burns & the Bard
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Haggis, neeps and soliloquys: the bonds that tie Robert Burns and Shakespeare Gerard Carruthers, University of Glasgow While Robert Burns lovers celebrate their great advocate for the common man on January 25, this year’s whisky-and-haggis feast for the birth of the Scottish bard risks being upstaged by a big literary…
To upgrade, or not to upgrade (Hamlet’s Lament)
This...Napa Valley
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"This Blessed Plot, this Earth, this Realm, this Napa Valley" adapted from King Richard II, Act 2, Scene 1 ("This England"), attributed to John of Gaunt by William Shakespeare.