Articles Tagged With: Linda “Spencer” Dye

Aparna Sri (left) as Lady Macbeth and Jaki Demarest (right) as Macbeth šŸ“· Constantia Rioux

Macbeth at The Rude Mechanicals

ā€œSuch welcome and unwelcome things at once ā€˜tis hard to reconcile.ā€ Macduff, ActIVsc.iii

I spent hours trying to find the way I felt about the current Rude Mechanicalā€™s production of Shakespeareā€™s Macbeth only to have Billy Bard having already wrapped it up for me more than halfway through the show. This particular production is a balancing act of strong performances, questionable conceptualizations, impressive technological inclusions, mismatched aesthetics, and a barrage of death,

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Cymbeline at The Rude Mechanicals

Hello.

My name is Amanda Gunther.

You killed all 37.

Prepare to be reviewed.

Going out with a rather impressive bangā€” though by no means are they finished producing or existingā€” The Rude Mechanicals, now in full-time residence at The Greenbelt Arts Center, have attained one of their coveted company goals: Produce all 37 of Shakespeareā€™s plays. Cymbeline, Directed by Erin Nealer, completes the quest of all 37.

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Timon of Athens at The Rude Mechanicals

How goes the world? A loaded question if ever there was one to be asked, especially in this day and age. But set yourself back from this day and age, set your dial of existence back to 1978 in order to prepare yourself to digest The Rude Mechanicalsā€™ latest offering: Timon of Athens. Directed by Joshua Engel, this miscreant play of Williams Shakespeareā€™s is finding a new lens through which to be viewed in the hands of The Rude Mechanicals.

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The Merchant of Venice at The Rude Mechanicals

Neither a borrower nor a lender be. While The Rude Mechanicals arenā€™t currently producing Hamlet, thereā€™s logic in that quote that could and should be readily applied to The Merchant of Venice, which The Rude Mechanicals are currently producing. Said advice would go far for both Antonio and Shylock and save everyone the trouble of their various plights fraught with woe and unfortunate circumstances. But alas, Shakespeare didnā€™t pen it that way,

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