How could we possibly talk about problem plays without mentioning Titus Andronicus? In this week’s bonus episode, Megan Skye Hale and Myrrh Larsen take a look at Shakespeare’s most violent play and talk about what it was like to produce it in 2023!
Myrrh Larsen (they/them) is a stage director, musician, songwriter and sound designer based out of Portland, Oregon. As a founding member of Speculative Drama, Myrrh has directed multiple immersive Shakespeare productions including A Midsummer Night's Dream (2017) featuring circus aerial performers, the "Lake House" Hamlet (2019) staged immersively in a private home, Macbeth (2020) as a hybrid live & digital show including text and video messages to audience members, an all-queer Comedy Of Errors (2022) and a Hellraiser-inspired Titus Andronicus (2023), as well as designing musical scores for the company's innovative wordless "movement plays" based on lesser-known fairytales.Myrrh’s work as a performer explores the intersection of music with other performance disciplines through a series of full productions that feature live rock music alongside collaborators such as dancers, circus performers, and movement actors. You can find examples of this work at pieceofmefairytale.com and ilikedeadthings.com.
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Megan Skye Hale (she/her) is a classically trained actor (LAMDA), movement director, and teacher whose interests include movement and site-specific theatre, and how those intersect with classic stories. Megan is a graduate of the London Academy for Music and Dramatic Arts classical acting program where she studied classical acting, physical theatre, mask, and Lecoq style clowning.
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TikTok: @skyesidhe
Insta: @speculativedrama
Website: meganskyehale.com
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