It’s 1616, and William Shakespeare has died. In our information-on-demand world, it’s straightforward to imagine that on the time of his loss of life, his dramatic works had been certain for posterity in organized volumes. In truth, the Bard’s performs had been in fragments (some transcribed, some merely memorized) throughout London. In PCPA’s manufacturing of Lauren Gunderson’s The E-book of Will, taking part in on the Solvang Pageant Theater from August 31–September 10, an intrepid group of actors, for whom Shakespeare’s work was significant, start a quest to posthumously cobble collectively his collected works.
This boisterous comedy just isn’t restricted to followers of Shakespeare’s work, says Andrew Philpot, who performs John Heminges, one of many actors in Shakespeare’s firm. “This isn’t a museum piece; this isn’t one thing that’s alleged to edify you and make you smarter; that is to entertain you…. It’s about folks on a mission, and it’s actually humorous. It additionally has moments which can be extremely transferring and exquisite.”
Says Isabella Lind, who performs Alice, Heminges’s daughter who aids the search from behind the scenes, “It’s about people who find themselves keen to sacrifice and put their lives on maintain as a result of they know in the event that they don’t publish these works, they are going to be fully misplaced to time.”
Directed by Emily Trask, The E-book of Will is a love letter to performs that transfer us, technology after technology. “When somebody asks me why I like Shakespeare,” says Lind, “my reply each time is that he places phrases to emotions that all of us have within us that we’ve by no means thought to declare out loud, and he is aware of how to do this.”
See The E-book of Will underneath the celebrities, simply as performs had been seen at Shakespeare’s open-air Globe Theatre. “He has such a deep understanding of the human psyche,” says Philpot. “No person says it like Shakespeare!”
See pcpa.org.
