Long Dead but well Read
Shakespeare’s Contemporaries
ISC Santa Fe has an exciting program called Long Dead But Well Read. It’s modeled on a program at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London called Read not Dead, in which actors convene on a morning, rehearse a play by a contemporary of Shakespeare’s during the day, and present the play in the evening, script in hand.
History of the Long Dead But Well Read program
2023:
La Vida es Sueño (Life is a Dream) by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, directed by Alejandro Amundah
2022:
Edward II by Christopher Marlowe, directed by Ariana Karp
The Duchess of Amalfi’s Steward by Lope de Vega, directed by Argos MacCallum and co-produced by Teatro Paraguas
The Rover by Aphra Behn, directed by Ariana Karp
2021:
The Capulets and Montagues by Lope de Vega, directed by Argos MacCallum and co-produced by Teatro Paraguas
Arden of Faversham, anonymously penned, directed by Barbara Hatch
2019:
The Knight of the Burning Pestle by Francis Beaumont, directed by Karen Machon
Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe, directed by Nicholas Ballas
The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster, directed by Ariana Karp
2018:
The True Chronicle History of King Leir, and his three daughters, Gonorill, Ragan, and Cordella, anonymously penned, directed by Ariana Karp