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Silicon Valley Shakespeare

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Frequency: 1 episode/37d. Total Eps: 52

Silicon Valley Shakespeare is innovating, illuminating, and inspiring with a mix of exclusive performances, behind-the-scenes interviews, and an exploration into the weird and wonderful world of William Shakespeare.

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🇩🇪 Germany - performingArts
13/12/2025
#87
🇩🇪 Germany - performingArts
12/12/2025
#63
🇩🇪 Germany - performingArts
11/12/2025
#53
🇩🇪 Germany - performingArts
10/12/2025
#35

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Episode 49--Flip the Script 5

Episode 49

Monday, December 1, 2025 • Duration 25:33

Katelyn Miller--Mercutio from Romeo & Juliet

Doll Piccotto--Marc Antony from Julius Caesar

Sydney Harmon & Melissa Brown--Iachimo & Posthumus from Cymbeline

Pat Tyler--Hamlet from Hamlet

Bryan Freeman--The Gaeler's Daughter from Two Noble Kinsman

James Lucas--Titania from A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Episode 48: Shakespook 2025--Ghost Stories

Saturday, November 1, 2025 • Duration 33:20

Tonight for your Halloween hauntings we present two stories--There Was A Man Dwelt Beside a Churchyard--a continuation of the story Mamilius begins to tell in A Winter's Tale, and the Ghost Story of Annie Walker.

Narrator of the Ghost Story of Annie Walker: James Lucas

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Episode 39: Flipping the Script 4

Sunday, December 8, 2024 • Duration 38:57

Episode 38: Bard Talk--HALLOWEEN

Thursday, October 31, 2024 • Duration 32:48

Did Shakespeare Trick or Treat? Tune in and find out!!

Players:

Vincent Shakesprice--James Lucas

First Fairy/Juliet--Sydney

Nurse--Melissa Mei Jones

Puck--Tonya Mara

Sources:

Astonishing legends.com

'Did Shakespeare Go Trick or Treating'--Cassidy Cash:

"All Saints Day"--Britannica

'Samhain"--History.com

"Imbolc"--History.com

"Beltane"--History.com

"Lughnassa"--History.com

"Origin of Halloween"--Hauntpay.com

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Episode 37: Shakespod--BACK TO SCHOOL

Wednesday, October 2, 2024 • Duration 39:45

Ever wonder what school was like in Shakespeare's Day? Well, tune in this week to find out! This week we dive into Shakespeare's school days, what kind of education he had, and why some people think that means he couldn't have written his plays.

Merry Wives of Windsor Scene performed by: Sydney Harmon, Oliver Piccotto, Doll Piccotto, and James Lucas as Sir Hugh.

Sources for this podcast:

Elizabethan Education by Linda Alchin

"A Double Spirit of Teaching--What Shakespeare's Teachers Teach Us" by Patricia Winson

Why Some People Think Shakespeare Didn't Write Shakespeare, Explained--by Constance Grady

Greene's Groats-Worth of Witte--Folger Shakespeare Library

Children in Elizabethan England --Julia Bossonis

Welcome to Grammar School

Famous Shakespeare Authorship Skeptics--Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship

Yes, Shakespeare Really Was Shakespeare--Shiladitya Sen

The Rediscovery of Shakespeare's Greek

Episode 36: Shakespeare and China

Wednesday, August 28, 2024 • Duration 32:15

This episode of Shakespod dives into the history of theatre in China and when and how Shakespeare made his arrival there.

Special Guest: James Lucas performing Marc Antony from Julius Caesar.

Sources:

SHAKESPEARE IN CHINA

Ho Hsiang-Lin

The ComparatistVol. 13 (MAY 1989), pp. 11-21 (11 pages)Published By: University of North Carolina Press

Shakespeare Reception in China by Yanna Sun

Why China's Love Affair With Shakespeare Endures

Enid Tsui, Post Magazine

https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/1996061/why-chinas-love-affair-shakespeare-endures

Shakespeare in China

L.E.

https://legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2017/03/12/shakespeare-in-china/

Royalty-Free Renaissance music provided by:Pixabay

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Episode 35: Shakespod--The Chinese Exclusion Act and The Comedy of Errors Interview

Tuesday, August 13, 2024 • Duration 38:02

In this episode, we take an in-depth look at the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which provides the backdrop for our 2024 summer production of THE COMEDY OF ERRORS in Sanborn Park. The episode also features an interview with Melissa Mei Jones, director of THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, discussing her experience as a first-time director, her experience directing an AAPI-centric production, and much, much more.

Sources:

Royalty Free Music from https://www.fesliyanstudios.com

National Archives--archives.gov

Office of the Historian--history.state.gov

Library of Congress--loc.gov

Bill of Rights Institute--The Chinese Exclusion Act--Stephanie Hinnershitz

NPR--As Chinese Exclusion Act Turns 135, Experts Point to Parallels Today--Kat Chow

Calisphere--Chinese Exclusion Act Exhibition

Leland Stanford on Chinese Exclusion--1889

Tour of San Francisco's Chinatown

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Episode 34: The Play's the Thing...Unless It's the Movie

Sunday, June 30, 2024 • Duration 45:32

Doll Piccotto, SVS' Resident Dramaturg and 3 guests, Alika Spencer, director of SVS' Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Myles Rowland, actor who is playing Henry Jekyll and James Lucas--because he's entertaining and loves movies--discuss 3 different film versions of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde.

CORRECTION: We often call the John Barrymore version the 1931 version--it is in fact the 1920 version.

Films Discussed:

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde--John Barrymore (1920)--Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjQaAK5Vof4

Dr. Jekyll & Ms. Hyde--Tim Daly/Sean Young (1995)--Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFf9khNkOtc

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde--Michael McKell (2021)--Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAd6bp0naAA

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Episode 33: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

Monday, May 20, 2024 • Duration 31:17

Join Doll Piccotto, our resident dramaturg as she takes a walk on the light and dark side in this discussion of Jekyll & Hyde, Dualism and Allegory. Be sure to see our production of Jekyll & Hyde this summer at Sanborne Park in Saratoga, CA. Special Guest recordings by James Lucas.

Ale and Anecdotes by Darren Curtis | https://www.darrencurtismusic.com/

Music promoted on https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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Episode 32: All's Well That Ends Well?

Sunday, March 31, 2024 • Duration 37:21

All's Well that Ends Well....or does it? Listen in as a director, a professor and a dramaturg discuss Shakespeare's 'problem plays' and the issues that hinder a 'happy ending' in All's Well that Ends Well. Dr. Adrienne Eastwood from San Jose State Universityand and Marley Rose-Teter, the Director of Silicon Valley Shakespeare's All's Well that Ends Well sit down with Doll Piccotto, our resident dramaturg to pick apart these fascinating plays and discuss why they don't sit well with our modern sensibilities.

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