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 [...]
Yesterday Tina “appeared” on WBUR/NPR’s On Point with Tom Ashbrook to discuss Women of Will. An excerpt from the 45-minute in-depth discussion and call-in segment: "In many ways I’ve been working on this piece for the whole of my artistic life, and I have to ask the question: why should a 21st century feminist spend [...]
