We’re doing another, bigger North County Shakespeare Festival here in the Berkshires. We’ve put together seven different Shakespeare events over the last week of April.
4/23 (Thu) 8p Shakespeare’s birthday trivia at Door Prize
Come celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday with free cake and bar trivia. Door Prize is located in Hotel Downstreet. Cash prizes!
04/25 (Sat) 7p King Lear at Mosaic event space (49 Main St)
Shakespeare’s tragedy of family relationships and elder abuse. Lear was our second show ever and we’re excited to take another swing at it.
04/26 (Sun) 2p Shakespeare Behind Bars at Images Cinema
Shakespeare Behind Bars (2005) is the eponymous documentary about our friends and colleagues in Kentucky who facilitate Shakespeare performances in prisons. Seats are limited. RSVP here.
*this replaces a screening of Hamnet that had to be rescheduled to May
04/27 (Mon) 5p Sonnets zine release at the MassMoCA R&D Store
We’ve commissioned five local poets to compose new works that are inspired by or in conversation with four Shakespeare sonnets. We’ll be publishing the new works in a zine and doing a reading of the new works at the Research and Development Store at MassMoCA.
04/28 (Tue) 7p Sweet Prince at the ’62 Center at Williams College
Northampton-based Shakespeare actor and producer (and Elsewhere co-founder) Hilary Dennis brings her one-actor Hamlet to the ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance at Williams College.
04/29 (Wed) 8p The Winter’s Tale in the Lodge at Tourists
We’re returning to Tourists as part of their Sing For Your Slumber performance series with Shakespeare’s bizarre fairy tale of jealousy, lost children, magical statues, and bears.
04/30 (Thu) 7p Shakespeare’s Duets: Turn and Change at Studio 9
Artistic Associate Andrew Codispoti and his collaborator Ariana Karp have created a two-actor show that explores relationships in Shakespeare through a series of two-character scenes from the plays.
If you want to help us cover housing and travel for out of town actors or print flyers and zines, click here to donate to our Fractured Atlas campaign specifically for the fest!
You don’t need to ask our permission or credit us to use anything on this page.
All our cuts run 90 minutes and can be staged with a cast of seven to ten actors.
Information about individual scripts — including dramaturgical notes about how we cut our scripts and what we’ve removed from each play, as well as doubling charts, props, and fights — can be found on the first two pages of each cut.
If you have additional questions about these cuts, email us.
Texts
- Antony and Cleopatra
- Antony y Cleopatra (bilingual en/es)
- As You Like It
- Coriolanus
- Hamlet
- Henry IV (Conflated)
- Henry V
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Macbeth
- Macbeth (60min)
- Measure for Measure
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- The Sonnets
- Titus Andronicus
- Twelfth Night
- The Winter’s Tale
Production Resources
In the immortal words of every hardcore frontman ever,
“We have merch in the back”
March 29th, 2026 | Atlanta, GA
November 16th, 2026 | Raleigh, NC
November 16th, 2025 | Raleigh, NC
November 18th, 2025 | Richmond, VA
October 12th, 2025 | London, England
October 28th, 2025 | Somerville, MA
November 15th, 2025 | Raleigh, NC
July 23rd, 2025 | Lisbon, Portugal — Co-Production with Teatro Soco
August 16th, 2025 | East Village NY — Part of the Little Shakespeare Fest at Frigid NYC
June 2nd, 2025 | North Adams, MA — Part of North County Shakespeare Festival
North County Shakespeare Festival
We Were Wont to Lie by Molly McInturff & There is a World Elsewhere by Lydia Isabel Duff
May 30th, 2025 | North Adams, MA
Sonnet Slam May 31st, 2025 | North Adams, MA
Birds of Shakespeare presentation with Missy Dunaway June 1st, 2025 | North Adams, MA
May 28th, 2025 | North Adams, MA — Part of North County Shakespeare Festival
April 27th, 2025 | Raleigh, NC — Co-Production with Atlas Stage Collective
April 26th, 2025 | Raleigh, NC — Co-Production with Atlas Stage Collective
March 18th, 2025 | Somerville, MA — Co-Production with The Sonnet Man
February 19th, 2025 | East Harlem, NY — Co-Production with The Shakespeare Forum
The Tread On Kings Tour
December 29th, 2024 | Columbia, SC
December 31st, 2024 | Raleigh, NC
January 2nd, 2025 | Richmond, VA
January 4th, 2025 | Washington, DC
September 29th, 2024 | East Harlem, NY — Co-Production with The Shakespeare Forum
May 27th, 2024 | North Adams, MA — Co-Production with Vicious Mole Theatre Collective
October 15th, 2023 | Northampton, MA
October 16th, 2023 | East Harlem, NY
Co-Production with The Shakespeare Forum
October 22nd, 2023 | Atlanta, GA
May 1st, 2022 | Columbia, SC
May 29th, 2022 | Richmond, VA
July 3rd, 2022 | Northampton, MA
December 6th, 2021 | Richmond, VA
November 25th, 2019 | Richmond, VA
Elsewhere Shakespeare is a tiny organization that believes in giving away the art that we make and the tools we use to make it. If that is a meaningful idea to you, consider making a tax-deductible donation to us through Fractured Atlas.
With an annual budget of less than $1,000, your three-dollar donation makes a much bigger difference to us than it would to a larger organization.
Get in touch
elsewhereshakespeare@gmail.com
Companies:
Backroom Shakespeare Project
The Bridge Ensemble
The Container Globe
Incite Shakespeare Company
Junkyard Shakespeare
The Offing Lab
Teatro Socco
Theatre in the Open
The Vanguard
Vicious Mole Theatre Collective
Artistic Associates:
Adam Turck, Alana Wiljanen, Andrew Codispoti, Annabel O’Hagan, Brayden Hearn, Danica Jackson, Elizabeth Johnson, Hilary Dennis, Jenna Thomas, Jessie Lillis, Kati Grace Kirby, Lydia Brendel, Lynii, Maddy Gillespie, Molly McInturff
All three Elsewhere actor-managers have education backgrounds and extensive experience working with students in elementary school through university.
We specialize in the historical context of Shakespeare’s plays as well as rhetoric. We believe the plays most come alive when you look at them how actors and audiences in 1600 would have looked at them. We would love to help you teach any of the plays (or sonnets!) either in a literature or a theatre classroom, or to give a workshop for your actors with monologue and scene work.