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Wednesdays With Will #18 - Reviewing Summer
We've had a great time with you this summer, but all good things must come to an end! Caroline is ready to commemorate our No Bummer...
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Aug 19, 2020
Wednesdays With Will #17 - Adapting Shakespeare
When Summit Players Theatre does Shakespeare plays, we don't do them exactly how they were originally done. We change costumes,...
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Aug 12, 2020
Wednesdays With Will #16 - Outdoor Theatre
Summit Players Theatre performs Shakespeare plays outside for several reasons: It's fun It highlights the important natural resources...
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Aug 5, 2020
Wednesdays With Will #15 - Quartos, Folios, Zines
In Shakespeare's time (and directly after), his plays were published in two primary formats: quartos, small booklets that contained a...
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Jul 29, 2020
Wednesdays With Will #14 - Recipes
Characters in Shakespeare's plays eat and drink a lot of different kinds of dishes. From ale to meat pies, there's plenty of quaffing and...
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Jul 22, 2020
Wednesdays With Will #13 - Conventions
Shakespeare wasn't the only playwright creating theatre during the Elizabethan period, and a lot of his contemporaries, like Ben Johnson,...
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Jul 15, 2020
Wednesdays With Will #12 - The Plague
In the early 1600s, Shakespeare, and most of London, faced a situation that many of us can understand today: an outbreak of the plague....
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Jul 8, 2020
Wednesdays With Will #11 - Shakespeare's Background
We've talked for weeks about elements of Shakespeare's plays, but who was this Shakespeare guy anyway? This week, we take a deep dive...
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Jul 1, 2020
Wednesdays With Will #10 - Disguises
Lots of characters in Shakespeare's plays wear disguises for different reasons - to get information, to play tricks or even to go into...
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Jun 24, 2020
Wednesdays With Will #9 - Story Inspiration
Some people say that Shakespeare took ideas from other authors and rewrote them as his plays, and they're not entirely wrong!...
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Jun 17, 2020
Wednesdays With Will #8 - Speeches
Characters in Shakespeare's plays either spoke in verse, a formal, poetic type of speech used for high emotions, high status and...
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Jun 10, 2020
Wednesdays With Will #7 - Camping
The great outdoors are also a great place to do Shakespeare, which is why we do all of our shows in the Wisconsin State Parks. The...
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Jun 3, 2020
Wednesdays With Will #6 - Messengers
The plays that Shakespeare wrote have very high stakes and big emotions - together, we say the plays have heightened circumstances. This...
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May 27, 2020
Wednesdays With Will #5 - Tragedies
Tragedies are one of the three big categories of plays that Shakespeare wrote. They're sad stories that often end in the death of many...
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May 20, 2020
Wednesdays With Will #4 - Comedies
Comedies are one of the three big categories of plays that Shakespeare wrote. They feature love, marriage, silly jesters and lots of...
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May 13, 2020
Wednesdays With Will #3 - Histories and Family Trees
Histories are one of the three big categories of plays that Shakespeare wrote, and they're full of... well, history! Specifically, the...
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May 6, 2020
Wednesdays With Will #2 - Stage Combat
Shakespeare's plays are chock-full of action, and bringing that action to life on stage safely requires the use of stage combat! Follow...
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Apr 29, 2020
Wednesdays With Will #1 - Sonnets
We know that Shakespeare was a playwright, and even that he acted in some of his own plays, but did you know that he was a poet too?...
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