"Here's a knocking indeed! If a man were a porter of hellsgate, he should have old turning the key... Anon, anon! I pray you, remember the porter." The Scottish Play, Act 2, Scene 3 Or, as it were, remember the Porters...
Everyone who can make it out to the shows...
Lisa Hammer, the brilliant Actor and Composer. Visit her at www.LisaHammer.com, www.myspace.com/blessedelysiummusic, or www.myspace.com/juliuscaesarsoundtrack (this last is the incredible score she composed for our inaugural production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar)
To Date: Joseph L. Mankiewicz's 'Julius Caesar' ('53), Kenneth Branagh's 'Twelfth Night, or What You Will' (directed for the screen by Paul Kafno) ('88), Trevor Nunn's 'Twelfth Night: Or What You Will' ('96), Laurence Olivier's 'Richard III' ('55), Richard Loncraine's 'Richard III' ('95), Al Pacino's 'Looking for Richard' ('96), Julie Taymor's 'Titus' ('99), and Kenneth Branagh's 'Much Ado About Nothing' ('93)
The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom, Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare by Isaac Asimov, Speaking Shakespeare by Patsy Rodenburg, Will in the World by Stephen Greenblatt, Shakespearean Tragedy by A.C. Bradley, Lectures on Shakespeare by W.H. Auden, The Meaning of Shakespeare by Harold C. Goddard, A Shakespearean Actor Prepares by Adriane Brine and Michael York, Confessions of an Actor by Laurence Olivier, Year of the King by Antony Sher, Being an Actor by Simon Callow, The Intent to Live by Larry Moss, Advice to the Players by Robert Lewis, Shaw on Shakespeare collected essays and criticism by George Bernard Shaw Three Theban Plays by Sophocles, translated by Jamey Hecht