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Theater: If you want to watch some whack-job's crazy conspiracy theory about the true William Shakespeare, then you'll have to go see this movie. But if you want to watch a woman who knows what she's talking about when it comes to the Bard, then go see Tina Packer perform "Women of Will," now playing at the Central Square [...]

“Women of Will” can equally be characterized as: the most fun you will ever have at an English lecture, a Frankenstein’s monster of script limbs and discussion thread and an adoring mix tape: the Best of Shakespeare’s Ladies. Shakespeare and Company founder/artistic director Tina Packer explores Shakespeare with wit and vigor through his female characters. The piece, [...]

Only hard-core Shakespeareophiles need apply to “Women of Will.” In Tina Packer’s Bard-a-thon, the three hours’ traffic on our stage is an exhaustive analysis of the feminine figure in Shakespeare’s work, from Rosalind to Lady Macbeth. Packer isn’t short on expertise: The venerable actress and director is the founding artistic director of Lenox’s Shakespeare & [...]

Tina Packer, Founding Artistic Director of Shakespeare and Company, the noted center for Shakespeare performance and study in Lenox, MA, started developing the material that has formed itself into this dramatic milestone fifteen or so years ago. It consists in a dramatic review of many of Shakespeare’s female roles, within an embrace of analysis, creative [...]

Tina Packer’s tour de force WOMEN OF WILL : THE OVERVIEW  is now playing at the Central Square Theater presented by The Nora Theatre Company! “WOMEN OF WILL” is an exploration of Shakespeare’s art and psyche through his female characters, from Juliet to Lear’s daughters. The title itself cuts many ways (women of “Will” Shakespeare, “willful” women, [...]

(Cambridge, MA) The female characters of Shakespeare’s plays are badly outnumbered by the males, sometimes fifteen to one, explains veteran thespian Tina Packer in Women of Will at the Central Square Theater.  In the Bard’s works, women often operate as others and also-rans, virgins and whores, rarely receiving the main focus.  But when they appear, their actions and [...]

Tina Packer has been in bed with Shakespeare for at least 40 years. And as founding artistic director of Lenox-based Shakespeare & Company, she enjoys a relationship with literature's alpha dead white male that's more visceral than academic. Now, in Women of Will (presented by Nora Theatre Company at Central Square Theater through November 6), she's ready [...]