Bottled Poetry & The Bard
Tapping the wellspring of Shakespeare’s works, NapaShakes pairs the world's greatest interpreters of Shakespeare with the Napa Valley’s most memorable wines, celebrated culinary delights, idyllic weather and spectacular stages to satisfy an audience as hungry for world-class theatre as it is thirsty for the Valley’s legendary Cabernets. 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.
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Mark Rylance casts a spell behind the curtain as well.
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When this happens, it's usually because the owner only shared it with a small group of people, changed who can see it or it's been deleted.A fun take from the Folger Shakespeare Library on Shakespearean themes in The White Lotus. If you love Shakespeare, check out their entertaining and educational posts!
Shakespeare and The White Lotus: Season Two
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Like many of Shakespeare’s plays, The White Lotus explores power among the privileged and the people who attend them.There's no need to worry about Artificial Intellligence replacing Shakespeare any time soon!
Opinion | A.I.: Actually Insipid Until It’s Actively Insidious
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ChatGPT ain’t Shakespeare, but it’s still a threat to humanity.“Boldness Be My Friend”: An Essay on Cymbeline by members of New York’s Fiasco Theater
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
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
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)
A technology-minded friend of NapaShakes submitted the following Ode to Code: To upgrade, or not to upgrade: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the core to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous coding, Or to take arms against a sea of hackers, And by opposing delete them? To…
This...Napa Valley
Those of us lucky enough to enjoy Napa Valley’s abundance, as full or part-time residents or as visiting artists and audience members, can make an impactful contribution to the Valley's cultural future by helping NapaShakes elevate professional Shakespeare and classical theatre to their rightful places among Napa Valley’s diverse artistic and sensory offerings. Whether by attending our performances, programs and screenings, by bringing your kids, classroom or book club to our events, by volunteering your time, goods or services, by spreading the word via social media, or by becoming a much-appreciated founding donor or sponsor, please support NapaShakes!
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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.