Under the Greenwood tree : a celebration of Kentucky Shakespeare / Tracy E. K'Meyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

K'Meyer, Tracy Elaine, author.

Series:

Kentucky remembered

Kentucky Remembered: an Oral History Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Stage history--Kentucky--Louisville.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespearean actors and actresses--Kentucky--Louisville--Interviews.

Shakespearean actors and actresses.

Theater--Kentucky--Louisville--History.

Theater.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Other Title:

Path to Open

Place of Publication:

Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [2024]

Summary:

In the summer of 1960, director C. Douglas Ramey took his Carriage House Players theater company down the street from their Old Louisville venue to Central Park, where the actors performed scenes from the Shakespeare classic Much Ado about Nothing. Ramey's company returned to the park the next year for the first full season of the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival. More than sixty years later, Kentucky Shakespeare is now the oldest free, non-ticketed Shakespeare in the Park festival in the country. To commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the festival, in spring 2020 Kentucky Shakespeare cooperated with students in the University of Louisville's Department of History to record twenty entertaining and enlightening oral interviews with longtime members of the company. Tracy K'Meyer captures the history of Kentucky Shakespeare in a series of carefully selected and edited transcripts of these interviews.

Contents:

Introduction

Prologue

Act 1. The plot

Act 2. Putting Shakespeare on its feet

Act 3. In the park

Act 4. "All the world's a stage"

Act 5. Reviews and reflections

Appendix: Methodology and acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Series page.

Notes:

Title from online title page (viewed on November 7, 2024).

Includes index

Other Format:

Print version: K'Meyer, Tracy Elaine. Under the greenwood tree.

ISBN:

9780813198866

0813198860

0813198852

9780813198859

OCLC:

1407315038

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.