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International cast of 'Othello' support children in need and feature on BBC Radio
August 13, 2023
60 Hour Shakespeare® presents 'Othello' rehearsed and performed in three days of open rehearsals at Reading Abbey Ruins to raise funds for Alexander Devine Children's Hospice Service. Othello will be played by Nettie Chickering of NYC's The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre: Home of the Meisner Technique.
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60 Hour Shakespeare® presents Queen Margaret: The War of the Roses. The Shakespeare Theatrical Universe assembles Queen Margaret's scenes in Henry VI parts one, two, and three
August 28, 2023
60 Hour Shakespeare® presents 'Queen Margaret: The War of the Roses' to raise money for Helping Hands Community Project in Leamington Spa. Rehearsed and performed in three days of open rehearsals on the 26th, 27, and 28th August 2023.
Tolkien inspired 'As You Like It' gives a Helping Hand to vulnerable people and features on BBC Radio
August 29, 2022
60 Hour Shakespeare® presents 'As You Like It' inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien's 'There and Back Again' and Thomas Lodge's Elizabethan novel 'Rosalynde' to raise money for Helping Hands Community Project Leamington Spa.
​The Shakespeare Theatrical Universe turns the original theatre practice of 60 Hour Shakespeare® inside out
August 14, 2022
The Shakespeare Theatrical Universe turns the original theatre practice of 60 Hour Shakespeare® inside out. Shakespeare wrote in parts and those parts, or cue scripts, told stories outside of the plays of which they are now a part. This year, the multiverse of Ophelia and Mercutio came to Reading Abbey Ruins with New Beginnings for the characters and the homeless.
RSC Associate supports international staging of Twelfth Night in aid of children’s art charity
April 20, 2021
60 Hour Shakespeare to perform Twelfth Night in association with the Fiorentini Foundation and Michael Corbidge, raising money to help disadvantaged children access the world of the performing arts.
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New Yorker Nettie is no April Fool!
April 1, 2021
Talented actor/singer Nettie Chickering is proving she is no April Fool as Feste in this ground-breaking production of Twelfth Night. Taking her inspiration from the likes of Josephine Baker and Ella Fitzgerald, she swings and sways to some darn hot bluesy jazz notes in 60 Hour Shakespeare’s reimagining of Illyria as Upper West Side Manhattan in 1919.