Shakespeare’s Othello is revisited exactly as it was written, brought into the present through the power of dialect alone. Iago, Othello, and Desdemona are regrettably still among us, in contemporary events told through a great classic. Set in the early 2000s, it is a timeless story where good and evil intertwine in a maelstrom of deceit, betrayal and mad jealousy.
In this comedic retelling of play Macbeth, we follow a valiant warrior named Macbeth as he encounters three mysterious witches who deliver a haunting prophecy: Macbeth will become the king of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and driven by fate, Macbeth embarks on a dark and bloody path to claim the throne.
An ancient family feud casts a long shadow over the town of Verona. In this hothouse of tension, brawls are quick to break out and both sides get caught in the crossfire.
Recorded from the West End, Kiss Me Kate follows a pair of divorced actors brought together to participate in a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. Of course, the couple seem to act a great deal like the characters they play, and they must work together when mistaken identities get them mixed up with the mafia.
Two rival acting students are forced to reconcile their differences and play lovers Romeo and Juliet in their final school play, vying for a life-changing prize.
Love, conflict, family - nobody's done it better. Acting legends reflect on the greatest writer who ever lived – and the dangerous, exciting world that ignited his creativity.
Young lovers living under an oppressive state-rule flee their home-city to change their lives, and end up changing the world. After all, love changes everything.
"Othello, a Moor, falls in love with Desdemona but is broken by jealousy falsely encouraged. Shakespeare's most human play sets delicacy and power, trust and jealousy, love and hate, good and evil in stark and tragic opposition. Powerless in the face of their own self destructive instincts, the characters are caught on a downward spiral towards inevitable tragedy."
A raucous staged reading of Hamlet like you've never seen it before...because YOU control the story! Now featuring Choose-Your-Own Hamlet!!
In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, three naive stoners find themselves too bored and sad to simply sit around all night. When they realize they've run out of weed, the group embarks on a strange and perilous odyssey across Los Angeles in search for weed.
Three modern witches brew a charm to curse MacBeth, only to be foiled by one of their own.
Frantic Assembly's famous take on Othello revived in 2023, featuring Michael Akinsulire in the title role.
A last-minute crisis throws a small production of Hamlet into chaos. Now, they must find someone truly ready... to die, to sleep.
A fascinating exploration of the literary — The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, by English playwright William Shakespeare (1604) — and lyrical — Othello, by Italian opera composer Giuseppe Verdi (1887) — myth of Othello, the desperately tragic story of a Moorish general in the army of the Venetian Republic whose absurd jealousy poisons his love for his wife Desdemona.
“Farewell Shakespeare!” is an exciting breakup symphony, which sets in a theatre stage. Two eccentric lovers deals with a romance conflict, while going with the flow of non-diegetical music.
An evocative and imaginative exploration of the racial tensions in Othello and how the themes in Shakespeare's play still resonate today.
The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago.
A voyeuristic woman falls in love at first sight. All dialogue taken from the plays and poems of WIlliam Shakespeare.
A general's marriage is destroyed when a vengeful lieutenant convinces him that his new wife has been unfaithful.
WillShake is a boy with a trunk of theatrical tricks who likes to tell stories. He embarks on his first journey to share the story of Henry V.
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