“Wolpe is one of the great stage actors of our generation,
who breathes life into Shakespeare’s words as though they were dredged from her
own soul.”
SHAKESPEARE IN LA
“Wolpe confirms that she is simply one of the best interpreters of the Bard out there! “ Talking Broadway
Railtown Cultural Eclective brings
visionary
theatre artist Lisa Wolpe’s new solo
show Shakespeare and the Alchemy of
Gender to their Trier Series, July 16
at the Orpheum Annex,offering
a unique celebration of the enchanting power of cross-gender Shakespeare.
Wolpe
is an actress, director, teacher, producer
and artistic director and founder of the Los
Angeles Women's Shakespeare Company (LAWSC), an award-winning all-female,
multi-cultural theater company.
In Shakespeare and the Alchemy of Gender, she both performs and contextualizes her experience of interpreting some of the many Shakespearian roles she has played – including Hamlet, Iago, Richard 111 and many others, while exploring her own life story from childhood to maturity. Her work speaks towards liberation from the “gender box” of expectations, and offers a unique and powerful perspective of courage, resilience and hope against her family’s troubled background of war, sickness, suicide and despair.
In Shakespeare and the Alchemy of Gender, she both performs and contextualizes her experience of interpreting some of the many Shakespearian roles she has played – including Hamlet, Iago, Richard 111 and many others, while exploring her own life story from childhood to maturity. Her work speaks towards liberation from the “gender box” of expectations, and offers a unique and powerful perspective of courage, resilience and hope against her family’s troubled background of war, sickness, suicide and despair.
Wolpe
has played more of the Bard’s male roles than any woman in history, always to
superlative reviews. She recently received the Lee
Melville Award for Outstanding Contribution to the LA Theater Community and
was awarded the Key to Harlem and a
Congressional Certificate of Merit for her work with the Harlem Shakespeare
Festival in 2013.
She has taught
and directed Shakespeare, all levels of acting, as well as directing courses
for many theater companies and universities, including the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, USC, Cal Poly Pomona,
Emerson College, Wellesley College, Boston University and MIT, and has
lectured widely on cross-gender Shakespeare. She will be offering a
cross-gender acting workshop on July 12 at the Terry Fox Theatre in Port Coquitlam. Click here for full details.
Shakespeare & the Alchemy of Gender
July 16 Orpheum
Annex, 823 Seymour Street
8pm Doors 7pm Tickets
$20/$15 Students, Seniors & Arts Workers Tickets
are available at www.northerntickets.com.
For more information email info@railtonce.ca or call 604-836-9943
