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Friday, September 05, 2008

Playwright premieres new 'Shakespeare' play

The Boston Globe: "'How Shakespeare Won the West,' set in 1849 in the middle of the California Gold Rush, follows a group of New York actors who hear of a small town out west where people are so starved for theater that they throw bags of gold at actors' feet."

1 comment:

Sam Thompson said...

This sounds like a very good play. I really like the idea of a play set in Gold Rush-era California, as this is a time not much explored by American theatre that I know of. It sounds like a great epic-adventure story, and I think that Jonathan Moscone will do a great job directing this play. I worked with him at the California Shakespeare Theatre on a production of Nicholas Nickleby which he directed, and I noticed that he gets to know very well not only the play, but also the history and circumstances surrounding the play. He really immerses himself in the culture and environment of the play, and did a great job bringing Dickensian England to life in California. Thus, I believe he will do well in bringing 19th-century California to life in Boston.