Reviews and News

The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en la Frontera

Kepaano Richter’s Marqués: a Narco Macbeth has been published in The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en La Frontera, Volume 1 (ACMRS Press, 2023) Drs. Katherine Gillen and Adrianna Santos (both at Texas A&M University-San Antonio) and Dr. Kathryn Vomero Santos (Trinity University-San Antonio) have collaborated on a new book titled, The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en la Frontera, published by ACMRS Press, the publishing arm of the Arizona Medieval and Renaissance Center at Arizona State University. This anthology has collected and made available Shakespeare appropriations set in or engaging with the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, thereby enabling culturally and regionally relevant teaching, performance, and research. “In recent years, we have witnessed a groundswell of Borderlands Shakespeare productions that engage with the unique, hybrid culture of la frontera and that interrogate the complex layers of colonialism shaping both the region and Shakespeare’s reception in it. “ – Dr Kathrine GillenBibliography Link: https://t.co/wpWdkk0h8Z

Thank you @gemmaallred, @Ben_Broadribb, and @_erinsullivan for including MOORE – a Pacific Island Othello in, Lockdown Shakespeare: New Evolutions in Performance and Adaptation. It will be an Arden Shakespeare like no other. Mahalo nui to all who fought to ensure “that the powerful play goes on,” and to those who chose to write about it.

Shakespeare and Latinidad, “Staging Shakespeare for Latinx Identity and Mexican Subjectivity: Marqués: A Narco Macbeth” by Dr. Carla Della Gatta, Edinburgh University Press 2021. Click on image or here for link to article.

 

Shakespeare, Volume 17, Issue 1, Routledge (2021)
Shakespeare, Race and Nation, guest-edited by Farah Karim-Cooper and Eoin Price. “Review of Stephen Richter and Mónica Andrade’s Marqués: A Narco Macbeth. University of California, Santa Cruz,” by Dr. Kathryn Vomero Santos (Trinity University). Click on image or here for link to article (or view on Google Drive)

The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en la Frontera

Drs. Katherine Gillen and Adrianna Santos (both at Texas A&M University-San Antonio) and Dr. Kathryn Vomero Santos (Trinity University-San Antonio) are collaborating on a new book titled, The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en la Frontera, which will be published by ACMRS Press, the publishing arm of the Arizona Medieval and Renaissance Center at Arizona State University. This anthology will collect and make available Shakespeare appropriations set in or engaging with the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, thereby enabling culturally and regionally relevant teaching, performance, and research.

“In recent years, we have witnessed a groundswell of Borderlands Shakespeare productions that engage with the unique, hybrid culture of la frontera and that interrogate the complex layers of colonialism shaping both the region and Shakespeare’s reception in it. “ – Dr Kathrine Gillen

Bibliography Link: https://t.co/wpWdkk0h8Z

Moving Islands: Contemporary Performance and the Global Pacific – MOORE – a Pacific Island Othello. Mahalo nui loa, Dr. Diana Looser for including MOORE in your wonderful book on contemporary performance from Oceania.

Seeing Shakespeare: Narco Narratives and Neocolonial Appropriations of Macbeth in the U.S.Mexico Borderlands: Marqués – a Narco Macbeth. Literature Compass. Full Article

MIT Global Shakespeare Project: MOORE – a Pacific Island Othello, Livestream World Premiere. MOORE – a Pacific Island Othello has been inducted into the MIT Global Shakespeare Project. Click here or on the image below for a link to the performance webpage.

 

Remembering Shakespeare, 1564-1616

April 23, 2016 @ 6:00 pm – 6:45 pm | Music Recital Hall

Remembering Shakespeare, 1564-1616
Readings from the works and about the man

A memorial service, commemorating the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death in 1616.

Saturday, April 23, 2016
Music Recital Hall, UC Santa Cruz
6:00-6:45 p.m.
Free and open to the public

This event takes place before Experimental Baroque, a concert by Santa Cruz Baroque Festival. Concert info/tickets available at: www.scbaroque.org

Remembering Shakespeare, 1564-1616, is sponsored by Shakespeare Workshop, Institute for Humanities Research, Porter College, and Santa Cruz Baroque Festival.

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Monuments in Entropy

Project Development:

MONUMENTS AND ENTROPY (WINTER – FALL 2017)

Elliot Anderson & Jim Bierman & Danny Scheie

For an entire year, the DANM Mechatronics Group partnered with the Performative Technologies Group to create a collaborative research cohort to develop interactive art and design projects as part of the “Monuments and Entropy” project.

The work began with Robert Smithson’s A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey as a way of understanding movement, time, place, the monument and entropic conditions. Smithson operates as both camera and guide, where the reader/viewer is led through a landscape of impressions and reflections. The work is both textual and visual, which is the reason we are brought along on a tour. Given the structure and ways of seeing and understanding landscape, the text provides a rich foundation for dramaturgy and the creation of visual imagery. Our proposal was to have the graduate students create a performative “non-trip to a site from a Non-site,” creating space and giving physical shape to the concepts of Robert Smithson’s text, through re-staging / reconstructing a local entropic monument.

The students were encouraged to explore opportunities to address larger socio-political issues like climate change, destruction of landscapes and environments within this framework. They were also asked to reflect on their experience of the “monumental” in their daily lives. This conception of the monumental would include institutions and political conditions and conflicts.

The research group applied a systems based approach for fabricating functional experimental art devices that combined principles of sculpture, kinetics, electronics, motion control, sensors, actuators, motors, and other control devices with Arduino Boards using Max/MSP/Jitter and Processing as the primary programming languages. The fabrication methods included, woodwork, metalwork, moldmaking, and rapid prototyping to build and advance iterations of the mechatronic platform. The conceptual framework of the projects created by the Mechatronic’s group were developed in response to the art and science research topics chosen by the cohort.

The project group met weekly to focus on the design and prototyping of tangible user interfaces in order to create meaningful correlations with user gestures, controller interface, and the output of that controller as it related to the project theme. Interaction design concepts included perceived affordances, translation of physical action into digital information, and user observation. Applicants selected for the project group were required to demonstrate skills in 3D modeling and animation, art, music, gaming, programming, video, engineering, robotics, and design.

The outcome of the project group would be an interactive performative work, incorporating sound, animation and live action. The work could have been a traditional theatrical production or a collection of site-specific smaller works that would constitute a “theater-as-tour.” There were a number of opportunities for local sites to explore, both as content for the work and also as possible venues to perform/enact the work. Entropic sites such as the decommissioned cement plant in Davenport, the fabled “Santa’s Village” in Scotts Valley, or and the abandoned settlement on Año Nuevo Island all have rich histories and complex landscapes, but also are environmentally complex. Año Nuevo Island is a marine sanctuary and the cement plant requires environmental remediation. These sites provided an opportunity for student researchers to work with historians and scientists throughout the one-year project. After careful consideration, the Davenport Cement Plant was selected as the research cohort’s Entropic site of Inquiry.

SPRING 2017

“El Muro” – a Ceremony (Political Pop-up Performance with Projection Mapping)

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“El Muro” –  Projection Mapping Content

2018 Monuments in Entropy Exhibit:

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Prometheus Unplugged: Our hideous progeny (a ceremony) by Stephen Richter

Concept Pitch:

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Prometheus Unplugged Mood Board (Victor-as-Corporation / Factory as the Creature / Prometheus)

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EVE – Dramatists Guild of America SF Footlights

Eve is a meta-theatrical conversation between some of the great works of theatre, film, and literature, employed to speak to present day issues of nationalism, immigration rights, the First Amendment, refugees, an expanding opioid epidemic, and the purpose of the theatre itself. As a hybrid adaptation of the 1950 film All About Eve and Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus, Eve investigates the roles of women, the currency of female youth and beauty, the relationships between mothers and daughters, fathers and daughters, political corruption, and the abuse of power

The Phoenix Theater San Francisco

Eve – Dramatists Guild of America SF Footlights – Stephen Richter

Eve – EVE FULL SCRIPT – Stephen Richter

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Footnote:  It was such a delicious synchronicity that “Eve” made her U.S. debut at the Phoenix Theater, since Jean Cocteau’s version of Oedipus Tyrannus “The Infernal Machine” opened on February 3, 1958 at the Phoenix Theater in New York, under the direction of Herbert Berghof… (Was übrigens ist sehr sehr cool , nicht wahr?)