SHAKESPEARE'S ACTRESSES IN AMERICA

“An accessible, intelligent, and utterly transfixing evocation of the performers who, in age after age of changing fashion, have breathed fresh life into the ageless work of a master.” –Boston Globe

Created and performed by Rebekah Maggor
Voice and Text Director Dudley Knight
Movement Director Andrei Droznin
Sound Designer Jeffrey Alan Jones
Costume Designer Kristin Glans

Upcoming Performances:
January 27 – February 11, 2008 at the Huntington Theatre Company

Past Performances
February, 2007, the Center for Arts in Natick
November 2006, the Marshall Performing Arts Center, Duluth
October 3, 2006, The Players Club, New York,
July 23 - August 29, 2006 Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, Cape Cod
January 30 - February 1, 2006 at Zero Arrow Theatre

Boston Globe interview – Boston Globe review -  Boston Phoenix review -
Barnstable Patriot review - Theatre Mirror review 

For more information on this production, write to saa@amrep.org.

Production photographs by Andrew Brilliant. Click any image for slide show.

Shakespeare’s Actresses in America, a new one-woman play, brings to life the vocal and physical styles of some of the finest actresses America has known. From stage stars Sarah Bernhardt, Ellen Terry, Eva Le Gallienne and Margaret Webster, to film stars Elizabeth Taylor and Claire Danes—this beautifully crafted solo work reveals the varied interpretations of Shakespeare’s heroines and explores how women have shaped our understanding of the world’s greatest playwright.

For more information on this production, write to saa@amrep.org.

“Maggor offers…the fascination of watching wildly various interpretations of a single speech, the pleasure of seeing a well-trained actress' physical and vocal techniques deployed with precision and taste, and the deepened understanding that every age has its own ‘real’ Shakespeare.” –Boston Globe

“Shakespeare's Actresses in America is more than good theatre; it's good history. A delightful romp through a century of Shakespeare on stage and film that lends fresh insight into both the plays, and their American audiences.”
–Professor Jill Lepore, Harvard University

 “A gifted and charismatic performer, Maggor makes each actress completely distinct.  The scholarship is impressive, and this is a highly-entertaining performance. This may be a one-woman show but in Shakespeare’s Actresses in America, there’s an army onstage.” –Boston Phoenix

“Shakespeare’s Actresses in America is the most entrancing Bard encounter I’ve seen in ages. The time could not have been better spent, nor the Bard better served.” –New England Theater Mirror

"Rebekah Maggor is softly stunning. In green velvet gown and upswept hair she transforms fluidly from pondering lover to terrified schemer, from haunted murderess to grief-stricken madwoman. She pours herself into characters, slipping not only into another persona, but into another time and place. She is aqueous and erudite... Maggor embodies whole genres and generations, not only the actresses that those periods produced. Maggor’s unique and thoughtful invention makes this piece too good to miss." –Barnstable Patriot

Boston Globe interview – Boston Globe review -  Boston Phoenix review - Barnstable Patriot review - Theatre Mirror review

For more information on this production, write to saa@amrep.org.