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Summer Season Kick Off Tomorrow and Friday!
Join us at the amazing Tumbleroot Alegría on Agua Fria for a BAR(d) Bash!
Thursday, July 2: The Tempest
Friday, July 3: Hamlet - THE BAD QUARTO!
On both days: 5:30pm is cocktail hour, 6:30pm is show time!
Tumbleroot Alegría on Agua Fria
2791 Agua Fria St, Santa Fe, NM 87507
Join us in a celebratory kick off of ISC Santa Fe's Summer Repertory Season as the cast speak through the play together for the first time before we launch into our rehearsal process! Did you know that during Shakespeare's time the cast would gather at a tavern to hear the play for the first time? As part of our exploration of original practices - we thought it would be wonderful to add this part of Shakespeare's process to our own!
"To be, or not to be, ay, there's the point"
As a fun bonus, our BAR(d) Hamlet on Friday will actually be a reading of the First Quarto of Hamlet. If you think you know Hamlet backwards and forwards, think again, come and hear lines in a completely new way.
2026 Summer REpertory Season
July 10 - August 2 — New Mexico Actors Lab
July 29 - Special performance of Hamlet at Meow Wolf!
Incite Shakespeare Company Santa Fe
(formerly International Shakespeare Center) is a non-profit theatre company located in Santa Fe, New Mexico. All our work stems from our commitment to building ensembles both within our company and in our community through imaginative, entertaining and insightful performances and events. We strive to develop productions that take Shakespeare’s plays off the pedestal and explore their resonance in our contemporary times. We examine power, play with gender, and experiment with process. We create productions that provoke complex thoughts and deep feelings. We aim to present Shakespeare’s work as we experience it: exciting, alive, edgy, full of beauty, imagination, change, contradiction, and complexity. We want our whole community, from actors to audiences, from designers to students, to feel energized by Shakespeare.
Join us as we embody Shakespeare’s text and present our vision of an ensemble-driven creative process. Come and incite Shakespeare with us!
Our 2026 Season is partially funded by grants from New Mexico Arts, City of Santa Fe Arts & Culture Department, and the 1% Lodgers’ Tax
We are honored and deeply grateful for this essential support!
“My relationship, then, to the language of Shakespeare revealed itself as nothing less than my relationship to myself and my past. Under this light, this revelation, both myself and my past began slowly to open, perhaps the way a flower opens at morning, but more probably the way an atrophied muscle begins to function, or frozen fingers to thaw.
The greatest poet in the English language found his poetry where poetry is found: in the lives of the people. He could have done this only through love—by knowing, which is not the same thing as understanding, that whatever was happening to anyone was happening to him. … [H]e saw, as I think we must, that the people who produce the poet are not responsible to him: he is responsible to them.
That is why he is called a poet. And his responsibility, which is also his joy and his strength and his life, is to defeat all labels and complicate all battles by insisting on the human riddle, to bear witness, as long as breath is in him, to that mighty, unnameable, transfiguring force which lives in the soul of man, and to aspire to do his work so well that when the breath has left him, the people—all people!—who search in the rubble for a sign or a witness will be able to find him there.”
—James Baldwin
From his 1964 essay “Why I Stopped Hating Shakespeare”
