The Kaleidoscope Series offers a new platform for exploring and interrogating Shakespeare.
The Kaleidoscope Series offers a new platform for exploring and interrogating Shakespeare. Led by scholar/artists Nick Musleh, Aejay Mitchell, and Philippa Kelly, Kaleidoscope will build a “dramaturgy university” accessible to everyone, be it an artist hired by the organization or a patron looking for a way into our work.
Kaleidoscope will have three areas of focus:
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Workshops in which members of the community can join us in a continual journey of discovery. How, as a dramaturg, do you approach a play and a production process? What interests and skills are involved in dramaturgy? How do dramaturgs use inquiry, analysis, and artistry to contribute to a production? How might dramaturgical practice provide pathways toward shattering artificial boundaries that seek to divide?
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Pre-show talks with three pillars of multidimensional engagement: 1) how and where the play illuminates the world in which it was written; 2) the unique points of focus for particular productions; and 3) the intersectional lens that a speaker brings to the show via their lived experience of gender, religion, race, ideology, and/or profession.
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A fully realized dramaturgical program for all of Marin Shakes’ productions that creates a space for dramaturgical mentorship: expert researchers facilitating student dramaturgs, collaborating to develop a new vision of how we talk about Shakespeare NOW.
Our goal is to unlock the liberation songs that live in the imaginations of contemporary artists and gift those perspectives to our shifting and diverse communities.