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