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RED VELVET
by Lolita Chakrabarti
Friday, January 16 @ 7:30 pm
Sunday, January 25 @ 2:00 pm
London, 1833. The trail-blazing black American actor Ira Aldridge receives an offer to take over the role of Othello in the Covent Garden production.
Red Velvet is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com Red Velvet received its world premiere at the Tricycle Theatre, London on 11 October 2012. The production was revived and opened at the Tricycle Theatre, London, on 23 January 2014 before making its American Premiere at St. Ann’s Warehouse, New York on 25 March 2014.
AMERICAN MOOR
by Keith Hamilton Cobb
Saturday, January 17 @ 2:00 pm
Saturday, January 24 @ 7:30 pm
A searing examination of the complex, empowering, and infuriating experience of a black actor auditioning for the part of Othello. Who is allowed to love and play Shakespeare?
American Moor is presented in arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc. www.dramatists.com American Moor has been developed with the creative support of ArtsEmerson, Boston, MA Original New York Production produced by Red Bull Theater in association with Evangeline Morphos, Elizabeth Ireland McCann, Tom Shea, and Frederick M. Zollo.
ISC is excited to announce a new program launching this fall, TextWork: Decoding Shakespeare for Actors and Readers. Reading Shakespeare’s text is like reading music. Anyone can do it, but it requires specific training. As readers and actors, we can learn to look at specific rhetorical devices and aspects such as rhythm, resonance, and phrasing that provide clues to the inner-workings of the characters. What does a disruption to the rhythm of the verse tell us? What does the imagery a character uses reveal about the way they see the world? Why is a word or phrase repeated? What is the text doing? TextWork is a series of workshops aimed at taking a deep dive into Shakespeare’s textual clues. Our TextWork sessions are led online by ISC Artistic Director Ariana Karp, who draws on more than twenty years of experience using and teaching techniques of textual analysis.
Repetition — Resonance and Change
November 24, December 1, December 8 at 5:00 - 7:00 PM MT (3 sessions-$150)
NINE MOONS
by Keith Hamilton Cobb
Sunday, January 18 @ 2:00 pm
Friday, January 23 @ 7:30 pm
What happened in the nine months before the start of Shakespeare’s Othello? Keith Hamilton Cobb presents a deep exploration of the intricacies of the relationships between ot’Teo, Desdemona, Desdemona’s father Brabantio, and Michael Cassio. Join us post-performance with playwright and actor Keith Hamilton Cobb for a Q&A session about this new play in development!
Nine Moons is presented in arrangement with the author.
DESDEMONA
by Toni Morrison
Saturday, January 17 @ 7:30 pm
Saturday, January 24 @ 2:00 pm
A beautiful and poetic examination of Desdemona, Othello, and the women in their lives set in the afterlife.
Desdemona is presented in arrangement with the Estate of Chloe A. Morrison.
We are so excited to have received TEN BroadwayWorld Award nominations this year!
Please visit BroadwayWorld.com/Albuquerque/awards to vote!
We were honored and delighted to be nominated for Top Performing Arts Group this year by the New Mexico Entertainment awards!
Favorite Local Theatre
ISC Santa Fe
Best New Play
THAT I WERE A MAN
Best Ensemble
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Othello
Best Costume Design of a Play or Musical
Caitlyn Fox – Othello
Best Performer in a Play
Anna Dempf – Desdemona in Othello
Isabel Madley – Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Joshua Caleb Horton – Othello in Othello
Best Supporting Performer in a Play
Amy Meilander – Quince/Peaseblossom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Best Cabaret/Concert/Solo Performance
Hannah Machado – THAT I WERE A MAN
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!
“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”
We are proud 2025-26, and 2024-25 recipients of generous grants from The City of Santa Fe Arts and Culture Department
Collaborative Impact (CI) focuses the programmatic efforts of Santa Fe’s arts nonprofit organizations on the development/creation of new media and/or programs intended to promote both Santa Fe’s rich and diverse arts and culture arena. The goal is to encourage collaborative projects independent of the partnering organizations’ traditional programming and foster the sharing of ideas, staff, materials, and resources. Organizations are encouraged to create multi-disciplinary programmatic content that promotes storytelling and advances the artistic vibrancy and cultural assets of Santa Fe in unique ways through in-person and/or digital experiences. CI grants are intended to expand the promotion of Santa Fe to include Cultural Tourism, thus attracting a specific audience of visitors who more directly foster our creative economy.
