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September 18, 2008

Shakespearience Photot Contest Winners

Filed under: Contests — Tags: , , , — dogberry @ 10:46 am
 

Our Summer Shakespearience
Contest
is now closed. We had a lot of great entries and were quite
surprised with the large response we got. We are planning to bring this
contest back next year and have some other contests planned in the near
future so sign
up for contest announcements
.

Here are the winners for
the 2008 Summer Shakespearience Photo Contest.

Winners will be receiving
their prizes in the mail in the next week.

 

1st
Place

 

1st place winner is Chelsea from Rogers, AK.

Shakespeare’s Den loved the artistic qualities of this
photo. We also appreciate the skill involved in getting a small child
to sit still long enough to get the photo taken.

This is what Chelsea wrote:

(Bonus Fun-Fact, the pictures were taken on the "island"
in the kitchen. Yes, indeed, pun intended.)

O Woe the day babysitting last week
When the air conditioning was broken
be hold the tragic lament of this lass
whose parents’ tribulations and their trial
for years marooned her to a wretched isle.

To be a slave under their spells and rule
as we when air was not circulating
thus from these tragedies combined there came
a photo to tell the tale all the days
The Tempest, one of Shakespeare’s greatest plays.


   
2nd
Place
   

2nd place winner is Kate from Denver, CO

What a wonderful group shot. You can only imagine the Summer
Shakespearience these folks have. It’s from the No Holds Bard Shakespeare
Company in Denver, CO.

This is what Kate wrote:

This is a photo of our Shakespeare at Civic Center Greek Theater festival
in Downtown Denver. It is from MacBeth. In the first folio text there
are 7 witches in act II. We use cue scripts and first folio technique
as developed by Patrick Tucker and Demi Papadinis. Great fun!


   
3rd
Place
 

3rd place winner is Christine from Groveland, MA.

Isn’t Shakespeare and "summer love" forever synonymous?
This kiss between Romeo and Juliet pretty much captures the spirit of
the play for us and we are sure these two actors will never forget their
summer Shakespearience.

This is what Christine wrote:

Attached is a picture of Ross Magnant as Romeo and Emma Behnke as Juliet.

Rebel Shakespeare Company Teen Intensive Program tour 2008 of "Romeo
and Juliet" took place in 10 sites in 6 cities in Eastern Massachusetts,
north of Boston.

Derby Square on the town hall steps was a beautiful and amazing place
to stage this story.


Honorable
Mentions
Here’s a few other entries
we enjoyed:

Amanda from Havertown, PA

This be me dressed most excellently, see?
As a most grave pirate of stormy seas.
But wait, there’s more: that skull in my strong hand
Was giv’n me by a very famous man.
His name be Hamlet, met we upon this:
Attacked his ship did I as he did sail
To England, banishEd by his own mom!
(For sooth, I’m at the RenFaire in P.A.)

MJ from Lander, WY

King John and scheming Queen discuss an evil plan.

Jake from Sparks, GA

I started my Shakespeare sleeve. These are the first few pieces.
Yes, eventually my entire left arm will be covered in Shakespearean
imagery.

     

July 28, 2008

If Shakespeare Wrote “Who’s on First”

Filed under: Shakespeare in Pop Culture — Tags: , , , , , , — dogberry @ 8:21 am

I ran across this the other day and I really had to share it. It’s an Elizabethan version of the famous Abbott and Costello routine “Who’s on First.” They do the entire routine so it’s not short but it is quite funny.

July 26, 2008

Photo Contest – Shakespeare Tattoos

Filed under: Contests — Tags: , , , , — dogberry @ 10:56 am

We’ve started getting entries to our Shakespearience Photo Contest. Here is an entry from Jake of Sparks, Georgia that caught our eyes. We love it!

Here is what Jake had to say:

“I started my Shakespeare sleeve. These are the first few pieces. Yes, eventually my entire left arm will be covered in Shakespearean imagery.”

Shakespeare Tattoo

Poor Yorick Tattoo

More entries will be posted soon so check back.

July 24, 2008

Shakespeare’s Den Announces the Summer Shakespearience Photo Contest

Filed under: Shakespeare's Den News — Tags: , , , — dogberry @ 11:46 am

Yes, you’ve read that right. Shakespeare’s Den is hosting a photo contest. We want to see what your Summer Shakespearience is like.

shakespeare-photo-contest

Send us your photo and the top winners get awesome prizes including large gift certificates and Shakespeare’s Den schwag! Find out all the details for the contest by clicking here.

We will post our favorite photos here as we get them. And as we have time. We are very busy people!

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