Newton Shakespeare!
27 consecutive years of collaboration
between Newton South and Newton North
performing Shakespeare!

COMEDY OF ERRORS CASTING:

Thanks again to all who auditioned and to all who patiently participated in the call backs. I am very excited to be working with this cast and I look forward to building and shaping a great production together. Please come to the MANDATORY first rehearsal, Monday March 22nd at 3:30 at the Little Theatre, Newton North High School. Scripts will be available at both schools from March 15th on at Mr Brown’s and Mr K’s offices. Bring the script and a pencil with you to the read through.

Solinus - Eliot Raff
Antipholus E - Derek Butterton
Dromio E - Anna Nemetz
Angelo - Caleb Bramberg
Balthazar - John MacGaffey
Amiguel - Lauren Ashbrook
Mustafa - Harry Neff
Dr Pinch - Robert Benner
Kareem - Sam Raby
Gaoler - Hayley Goldstein
Adriana - Sarah Wanger
Luciana - Rina Friedberg
Jemila - Ann Salloway
Luce/Nun - Gaby Perez-Dietz
Egeon - Ari Shvartsman
Antipholus S - Justin Phillips
Dromio S - Jaclyn Horowitz
Aemilia - Tori Wilson
Officer/Juggler - Rafael Kasobel
Dancer/Juggler - Rose Taylor
Dancer/Juggler - Gianna Romanelli
Officer Juggler - Ben Rosenberg

South Stage and Newton North's Theatre Ink are proud to claim one of the longest running and most outstanding Shakespeare performance programs for high school students in the United States. Few high school theatre programs prioritize Shakespeare every year; even fewer collaborate with a sister school, mixing casts and crews. Newton has been doing both for more than a quarter century.

South Stage initiated the collaboration with Shakespeare & Company and Newton North in the 1982-83 school year. Working with a combined cast from North and South, Kevin Coleman, Education Director of Shakespeare & Company, launched Romeo and Juliet, the first in an unbroken line of Shakespeare collaborations which have challenged students, delighted audiences, generated friendships, brought North and South together in a common enterprise, and fostered interest in theatre across town. As a result, hundreds of Newton students have rehearsed and performed Shakespeare, worked with professional directors, made friends in both Newton high schools, discovered the power that lies in their voice, and explored the depth, power, and muscularity of Shakespeare's text. Literally thousands have witnessed this remarkable process from the audience.

As dozens of professional directors have shown us since 1983, "Shakespeare is the Olympics for actors." Shakespeare's text demands a combined physical, emotional, intellectual, and vocal commitment beyond that of modern plays or musicals. It is Shakespeare & Company's specific belief that combining disciplined, sustained voice work with Shakespeare does more than bring Shakespeare alive for students; it aims at bringing students alive to the human possibilities within themselves as they confront Shakespeare's text. As Kevin Coleman writes, "Adolescence is most like the Renaissance. We seldom repeat its intensity and extremity, its excitement and its pain. What better material, what better "script" to put into the hands of adolescents than Shakespeare? The accuracy with which he reveals our thoughts and feelings, our human nature, teaches who and what we are, and consequently what we may become. In the truest sense of the word, he educates."

South Stage and Theatre Ink have been producing Shakespeare together for more than a quarter century. We are extremely proud to continue raising the bar with this extraordinary Shakespeare tradition!

Last updated on April 15, 2010