Playbill: The son of a theatre educator, Page grew up surrounded by the Bard’s language, wandering around the Oregon Shakespeare Festival as a toddler while his father performed. It isn’t hyperbole to consider the heightened language of Shakespeare an additional native language for Page, serving as his constant artistic touchstone. Throughout his celebrated career, he has appeared in the majority of Shakespeare’s works regionally, recently completing a run of King Lear at Washington D.C.’s Shakespeare Theatre Company that became the best-selling Shakespeare production in the venue's history.
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I have an interesting relationship with shakespeare. Since we could read, our education has shoved shakespear down our throats. And I can’t ay that I haven’t enjoyed any of it, in fact I do really like it. There is so much language and messages to dig into it is like reading and uncovering a puzzle. But as I have gotten older, it is really easy to read shakespeare and see some of its shortcomings, like underlying sexism and racism. It is really interesting to see Shakespeare talked about from a point of view like the way Patrick Page does. He is not so much focusing on his genius or his views, but rather what his writing exposes about human nature. What does the writing show us about what we do when we are at our worst and how we think about villains and vices. I have never thought about shakespeare from that angle and its a new concept I am now obsessed with. I would absolutely attend his show and I would love to see how he talks and explores the subject.
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