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.
Follow Myrrh
@attheendofeverything on TikTok
@myrrhlarsen on Instagramhttps://myrrhmusic.com/https://patreon.com/myrrh
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.
Follow Megan
TikTok: @skyesidhe
Insta: @speculativedrama
Website: meganskyehale.com
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TikTok: @BowlswiththeBard
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Sound by Jonathan Miot
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