Shakespeare and the Alchemy of Gender
About the Show
Shakespeare and the Alchemy of Gender Lisa Wolpe, Festival Artist in Residence Wednesday 22nd April, 7:30pm – York St John University Creative Centre Auditorium £15 Standard £15 Pass It On! (purchase a ticket for a member of our refugee and asylum seeker community who would otherwise be unable to attend this event) £5 Student (available for students with a valid ID card) **All tickets purchased online come with a 10% processing charge. Tickets purchased in person are not subject to this charge but availability of tickets is not guaranteed. Visionary theatre artist Lisa Wolpe's solo show Shakespeare and the Alchemy of Gender offers a unique celebration of the power of the eloquence of Shakespeare to build empathy and understanding in a world where the unspeakable seems to happen again and again. Lisa is an expert on gender-flipping Shakespeare a well as an actress, director, teacher, writer, traveler and distinguished scholar. Her one-woman show explores her experiences as an activist for inclusion, diversity, equity, access, promoting women's rights, and racial equality. It features stories about her family, focusing on her father, Hans Wolpe, a hero in WWII, as well as pieces of Shakespeare including Shylock, Hamlet, Richard III, and more, elucidating life lessons learned through playing male characters in the Shakespeare canon. Her work speaks towards liberation from the "gender box" of expectations, and offers a unique and powerful perspective of courage, resilience and hope against her family's troubled background of war, sickness, suicide and despair. Shakespeare and the Alchemy of Gender by Lisa Wolpe, directed by Laurie Woolery, has played at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival; San Francisco Shakespeare Festival; Utah Shakespeare Festival; Colorado Shakespeare Festival; Orlando Shakespeare Festival; Shakespeare’s Birthplace Trust, The Rose Theater, King’s College, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, U.K.; Bremer Shakespeare, Bremen, Germany; SpringWorks Festival, Ontario; Vancouver, B.C.; H.E.R.E. NYC; Whittier College, UC Santa Barbara; UC Irvine; and more. The show is coming to the Wanamaker Theater at The Globe Theatre, London, U.K., The Estates Theater in Prague for Prague Shakespeare Company, University of North Carolina, California State University, Boston University, and University of Georgia.
Booking Information
On each of our events we offer a ticket option called Pass It On! If you purchase any number of these tickets, we will gratefully pass them on to people who otherwise would be unable to attend due to financial barriers, with a special focus on refugees and asylum seekers. Would you like to be considered for a Pass It On! ticket? Contact us at info@yorkshakes.co.uk --- All tickets for our events have an added 10% to help cover our ticket processing surcharge. Tickets purchased in person are not subject to this charge, but we cannot guarantee availability without booking in advance. --- There is a hearing loop and a limited number of wheelchair spaces available at this venue. Please contact us via phone call at 07784819412 or email at skylar@parrabbola.co.uk to discuss accessibility measures or to request a wheelchair ticket. --- No longer able to attend? We understand - things happen. If you are no longer able to attend we ask that you let us know as far in advance as possible so we can re-sell your ticket. We will offer refunds and aim to process these within 30 days. Contact us at info@yorkshakes.co.uk for more information and to request a cancellation.
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