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‘Action is eloquence’: (Re)thinking Shakespeare

Dear Shakespeare, Could You Write A Happy Ending Please?: (de/re)stabilising the canon Tik by Tok

In a reflective article, Gemma Allred explores how TikTok creators have engaged with Shakespeare through the #ModernShakespeare hashtag.

Mar 11, 2021

Dear Shakespeare, Could You Write A Happy Ending Please?: (de/re)stabilising the canon Tik by Tok

Mar 11, 2021

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‘Action is eloquence’: (Re)thinking Shakespeare

Rethinking Performance: A Year of Lockdown Theatre

In the first of our ‘Rethinking Performance’ series, Gemma Allred explores the highlights of non-Shakespearean lockdown theatre from 2020.

Jan 4, 2021

Rethinking Performance: A Year of Lockdown Theatre

Jan 4, 2021

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‘He has no children’: The centring of grief in The Show Must Go Online’s Macbeth

Gemma Allred considers the exciting things that happen in Macbeth when you free Lady Macbeth from the ‘evil woman’ trope .

Nov 4, 2020

‘He has no children’: The centring of grief in The Show Must Go Online’s Macbeth

Nov 4, 2020

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‘Action is eloquence’: (Re)thinking Shakespeare

Taking Promenade Theatre Online: Shakespeare Ensemble’s What You Will

Gemma Allred considers feelings of isolation and loss as Shakespeare Ensemble’s What You Will takes promenade theatre online.

Aug 12, 2020

Taking Promenade Theatre Online: Shakespeare Ensemble’s What You Will

Aug 12, 2020

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‘Action is eloquence’: (Re)thinking Shakespeare

‘They think me Macbeth, ambition is my folly’: Considering fatal flaws in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s…

Gemma Allred explores the parallels between Miranda’s Alexander Hamilton and Macbeth, and Hamilton’s status as a product of Obama’s…

Jul 17, 2020

‘They think me Macbeth, ambition is my folly’: Considering fatal flaws in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s…

Jul 17, 2020

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‘Action is eloquence’: (Re)thinking Shakespeare

All That Glisters: Guildford Shakespeare Company take Murder Mystery to the 1980s

Guildford Shakespeare Company return with a second installment of their intertextual online murder mysteries.

Jul 7, 2020

All That Glisters: Guildford Shakespeare Company take Murder Mystery to the 1980s

Jul 7, 2020

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‘Some Shakespeare’ — if in doubt throw in a bit of Pericles: The Northern Comedy Theatre’s Doing…

Gemma Allred considers the metatheatricality and meta-Shakespeareanism at play in David Spicer’s written-for-lockdown comedy.

Jun 30, 2020

‘Some Shakespeare’ — if in doubt throw in a bit of Pericles: The Northern Comedy Theatre’s Doing…

Jun 30, 2020

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‘Graves, all gaping wide’ — Reimagining Dream as a Nightmare in Hermia: Heaven Unto Hell

Gemma Allred explores the second part of Fresh Life Theatre’s lockdown horror reimagining of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Jun 7, 2020

‘Graves, all gaping wide’ — Reimagining Dream as a Nightmare in Hermia: Heaven Unto Hell

Jun 7, 2020

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Lockdown Togetherness: Bard College and Theatre for a New Audience’s Mad Forest

Gemma Allred explores the game-changing live production of Caryl Churchill’s play, and considers the implications for Lockdown Shakespeare.

Jun 4, 2020

Lockdown Togetherness: Bard College and Theatre for a New Audience’s Mad Forest

Jun 4, 2020

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Moving Festival Shakespeare Online: 60 Hour Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Stream

Gemma Allred considers the company’s Zoom-facilitated adaptation of their previously planned outdoor charity production streamed to…

May 28, 2020

Moving Festival Shakespeare Online: 60 Hour Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Stream

May 28, 2020

Gemma Allred

Gemma Allred

Doctoral researcher @unineuchatel. Shakespeare & Theatre MA @shakesinstitute. MBA @LBS (exchange @tuckschool) @sheffielduni (law) and @openuniversity (Eng. lit)

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