Being Shakespeare
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Opened Apr 4, 2012
Closed Apr 14, 2012
Opened Apr 4, 2012
Closed Apr 14, 2012
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An aging Lear, disintegrating with his kingdom. A cryptic Ophelia, driven mad by madness. Hamlet, hell-bent on revenge. All of them came from the brain of Shakespeare, but what do we know about the Bard himself? In a tour-de-force performance, veteran actor Simon Callow (the original Roman Mozart in Amadeus on stage, the film Shakespeare in Love) assumes the daunting challenge of illuminating the man behind the roles in this utterly compelling one-man play by preeminent Shakespeare biographer Jonathan Bate, directed and designed by Tom Cairns. Channeling Macbeth and Henry V here, musing over Shakespeare's childhood there, Callow leaps from anecdote to soliloquy, using the famous Seven Ages of Man speech from As You Like It as his guide to consider how a glovemaker's son could have gone on to write the world.
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The point Simon Callow is making throughout his thoroughly engaging Being Shakespeare at BAM Harvey Theater is clear. At a time when people are questioning whether the glove-maker's son from Stratford-on-Avon could possibly have written all those ground-breaking plays, Callow maintains there's no doubt that William Shakespeare is the author.
The argument isn't Callow's alone. To be precise, it's Shakespeare scholar Jonathan Bate who's offering it. He's written a lecture on the Bard beautifully disguised as a play to which veteran actor Callow, by his commitment to the proceedings, adds his whole-hearted endorsement.
Not in any way impersonating Shakespeare, Callow arrives i[...]