Renowned Shakespearean actress Tina Packer is equally convincing as a steely Lady Macbeth, an impassioned Juliet and an anguished Desdemona. Packer plays all these women and more in her exploration of Shakespeare’s heroines, “Women of Will.” Directed by Eric Tucker and presented by the Nora Theatre Company at Central Square Theater in Cambridge, the production [...]
Tina Packer knows Shakespeare. She's directed every major Shakespeare play and is the founder and artistic director of Shakespeare & Company, which she has built into one of the largest and most critically acclaimed Shakespeare Festivals in North America. Her latest project is a staggering, five-part, on-stage examination of every single female character in Shakespeare's [...]
Shakespeare and Company founder Tina Packer has always been fascinated with the Bard’s leading ladies. Packer explores all of Shakespeare’s female characters in her new show, Women of Will. See the video on WGBH.org
LENOX, Mass. — Because Shakespeare’s Juliet is so irresistibly star-crossed, love-drunk and young, people tend to forget just how intelligent she is. Not Tina Packer. Portraying the female half of tragedy’s most popular double-suicide act, at the Founders’ Theater of Shakespeare & Company here, Ms. Packer glows with the energy of a quick, bright mind discovering — and [...]
Women of Will, The Complete Journey , by Tina Packer , with Tina Packer and Nigel Gore Shakespeare & Company, Bernstein Theater, Lenox, Massachusetts Through July 10, 2011 For lovers of Shakespeare and those new to or fearful of the bard, Tina Packer’s “Women of Will, The Complete Journey,” aka “WOW,” playing in Parts I-V on five [...]
Tina Packer, founder of Shakespeare & Company in Lennox, Mass., is bringing an overview version of "Women of Will" to Colorado Springs in November, and the entire five-part opus to Boulder next summer. (All photos are courtesy of Photo by Kevin Sprague, Provided by Shakespeare & Company) The Colorado Shakespeare Festival is going [...]
I have written the narrative of the women of Shakespeare’s plays. It is a fairly straight forward account which allows us to see how Shakespeare thought about women over a 25 year period – how they change, deepen, grow, become more and more powerful in the imagination of the playwright and in the action of [...]
Tina Packer - Photo by Christina Lane Tina Packer (actor/playwright) is the founding artistic director of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts. She has directed most of Shakespeare’s plays (some of them several times), acted in seven of them (never when directing) and taught the whole canon one way or another at over [...]
Nigel Gore (actor) will be returning to the Colorado Shakespeare Festival in summer of 2013 to play the title role in Macbeth and Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He received the Eliot Norton Award for Outstanding Actor for his portrayal of George in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the Publick Theatre in Boston. Recent work includes Richard [...]
Eric Tucker (director) - Off Broadway: Saint Joan (NY Times, Back Stage critics pick), The Libertine, The Belle of Belfast, 86’d. Off-Off Broadway: Closer, The Libertine, 16 East. Regional: Hamlet (with William Hurt, Stella Adler Theatre, Los Angeles); Mate (The Actors’ Gang, L.A.); Macbeth (nominated Best Overall Production and Best Director by LA Weekly); Uranium + Peaches (with Ed Asner, L.A.); Pinter’s Mirror, Bad Dates, Women of Will: The Complete Journey (Shakespeare and Co., Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Prague [...]
