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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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.Odd Man Out? What Motivates Macbeth?
NapaShakes’ Dramaturg Philippa Kelly explains: ‘[I]t is far better to be a just man than an unjust prince.’ Erasmus, The Education of a Christian Prince (1518) Tragedy openeth the greatest wounds, and showeth forth the ulcers that are covered with tissue; [it] maketh kings fear to be tyrants, and tyrants…
The Truth About the “Scottish Curse”
Don’t say Macbeth, or even quote that play, in a theater. Ever. Theater people believe it will bring disaster. In actual fact, Constantine Stanislavski, Orson Welles and Charlton Heston all suffered some catastrophe during or just after a production of “The Scottish Play.” In 1849, more than 30 New Yorkers were…
What is “This Rough Magic”?
In Shakespeare’s Swan Song: The Tempest, was he saying goodbye to the theatre? SPEAKING AS SHAKESPEARE by Philippa Kelly, NapaShakes dramaturg Near the end of The Tempest, Prospero, former Duke of Milan and more recently commander of the unnamed island on which the play is set, says: the strong-based promontory Have I…
A Shakespeare for All Seasons
THEATER | THE ART OF SLOW A Shakespeare for All Seasons By BEN BRANTLEY AUG. 20, 2015 The New York Times’ Ben Brantley writes about our evolving experience with Shakespeare at different points in our lives. For many theatergoers, summer is the season of Shakespeare, in the way it’s the season of corn and…
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.