Performances
Korol Lir (Dir. Grigori Kozintsev, Russia, 1971)
MSC 2406 275 Joe Routt Blvd. #2240, College Station, TX, United StatesThis Soviet era film based on Shakespeare’s King Lear follows the lives of King Lear and his courtier Gloucester, documenting the madness and tragedy which befall them.
TAMU Performance Studies Presents Wittenberg
Black Box Theatre - LAAH Building 349 Spence St, College Station, TX, United StatesSet at Hamlet’s alma mater, Wittenberg University, the play is a “tragical-comedical-historical” take on what it means to grow up and speak up.
Haider (Dir. Vishal Bhardwaj, India, 2014)
MSC 2400 275 Joe Routt Blvd. #2240, College Station, TX, United StatesHaider is an Indian crime drama serving as a modern-day adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, set amidst the Kashmir insurgencies of 1995.
Austin Shakespeare Presents A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Grand Stafford Theatre 106 S. Main St., Bryan, TX, United StatesA Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare’s classic romantic comedy in which four young lovers flee the adult world to the forest where they are enchanted by the King and Queen of the Fairies.
Hidden Room Theatre Presents Der Bestrafte Brudermord, Or Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
The Amity Building in Downtown Bryan, TX 300 W. 26th St., Bryan, TX, United StatesA humorous retelling of Shakespeare’s Hamlet with puppets, the text of Der Bestrafte Brudermord (Fratricide Revenged) dates to an anonymous 1710 German manuscript.
Present Company Presents Shakespeare’s Hamlet
The Amity Building in Downtown Bryan, TX 300 W. 26th St., Bryan, TX, United StatesAustin’s Present Company will mount a 7-actor production of Hamlet based on the text from the First Folio.
O (Dir. Tim Blake Nelson, US, 2001)
601 Rudder Tower 401 Joe Routt Blvd, College Station, TX, United StatesFeaturing Julia Stiles, this modern adaptation of Othello is set in an upper class prep school and is centered on drama surrounding star basketball player Odin.
Shakespeare Behind Bars (Dir. Hank Rogerson, US, 2005)
Harrington Education Center Classroom Building (HECC) 209 544 Ross St, College Station, TX, United StatesThis documentary follows 20 male inmates in a Kentucky prison on their nine month process of bringing Shakespeare’s The Tempest to performance.
Were the World Mine (Dir. Tom Gustafson, US, 2008)
MSC 2300D 275 Joe Routt Blvd #2240, College Station, TX, United StatesInspired by Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a bullied and demoralized gay student at an all-boys school uses a magical flower to turn many in his community gay, to let them take a walk in his shoes.
Chimes at Midnight (Dir. Orson Welles, US, 1966)
MSC 2400 275 Joe Routt Blvd. #2240, College Station, TX, United StatesThe film’s plot centers on Shakespeare’s recurring character Falstaff and his father-son relationship with Prince Hal.