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Fix the Folio! 36 Shakespeare Plays in 45 Minutes Troubadour E-Play
Fix the Folio! 36 Shakespeare Plays in 45 Minutes Troubadour E-Play
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It is 8 November, 1623, and Isaac Jaggard is racing from Stationers Hall to Edward Blount’s publishing house with a new manuscript, complete, copyright approved and ready to be bound. But he trips, and all the pages of Shakespeare’s First Folio scatter to the winds.
Can he, with a few helping hands, reorder the pages in time for publication?
Will The First Folio make it to print?
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How do you celebrate the 400th anniversary of one of the most influential books in the English language?
The more Shakespeare plays you experience the more similar themes begin to leap out. Perhaps a half completed plot in one comedy becomes fully developed character in a tragedy two years later. What... if that was the same storyline?
I knew I wanted all the folio plays to be included and so we started weaving a love story, with spatting beginnings, attraction, mutual chasing, jealously, betrayal, grief and then reconciliation. All the worlds a stage.
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Plays must be performed to be understood. In line with our mission to promote access to the arts everywhere, and to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare's First Folio, we are thrilled to release all nine of our Shakespeare adaptations in print for the first time.
Our adaptations are short clear distillations of the original text that serve as an accessible introduction to the newcomer and a welcome starting point for an experienced Shakespearean.
If you are a school, a non-profit, a keen enthusiast (or anyone else non commercial) feel free to stage our adaptation, free of charge! That's right, we won't ask a penny in licensing fees. Please let us know your plans however! We would love to help and hear how you are getting along.
The price set here is a donation, and all money donated will be re-invested in our digital learning programme. This programme will involve working on further editions of the texts which can include text notes, character analysis, song scores and staging starting points, as well as developing a video library of tutorials and further skills that will be able to be accessed free of charge... and much more!
If you are unable to donate at this time please contact the charity to arrange the script to be sent to you.
