Santa Fe Summer Shakespeare
COllaborative Shakespeare
ISC Santa Fe coordinates the Santa Fe Summer Shakespeare festival, featuring a diverse group of local collaborators offering Shakespeare performances and related activities around Santa Fe and online. We had four participating local organizations in 2019, eight in 2021, and seventeen in 2022, all producing amazing content! Explore more of this coming summer by visiting SFSS website or browsing our calendar of events.
Previous Events have included:
Live Performances produced by the Upstart Crows, Shakespeare Gym, Santa Fe Classic Theater, Santa Fe Playhouse, The Moor You Know Collective, ISC Santa Fe, and a one-man Richard III performed by Charles Lear.
Digital Performances produced by &Sons and Theatre Grottesco
Live and online workshops including “Elizabethan Dance,” “Sonnet Extravaganza,” “Introduction to Stage Combat,” “SWOON: The Art of Shakespeare Blackout Poetry,” and “An Intimate Connection: A gathering about consensual staging of intimacy in the theatre”
Educational talks and demonstrations including “Shakespeare was a Rapper: Hamlet, Damn It,” “The Roman World and Shakespeare,” “An Afternoon with David and Ben Crystal,” “Fine Dining in the Ancient World,” and “The Greek Heritage of Shakespeare’s Plays”
Panel discussions including “Pivotal Relationships in Shakespeare: Lady Macbeth and Macbeth” with three different theatre companies
Long Dead But Well Read: ISC’s staged reading series of plays written by Shakespeare’s contemporaries