ANTONY & CLEOPATRA – DIRECTOR
Theatre Production, Spring 2023
Roaming Columbia University’s icon(ograph)ic campus, this adaptation transported Shakespeare’s most melodramatic and metadramatic text to a spaghetti-western landscape.
Guided by rigorous research and infused with acid-trip aesthetics, the adaptation’s polestar was Said’s Orientalism. The production probed Shakespeare’s own Romeo-and-Juliet-ification of one of the world’s most pervasive and disastrous binaries: West & East.
DIRECTOR... Elsa Hana Chung
STAGE MANAGER... Izzy Bohn
LEAD PRODUCER... Sophie Simons
PRODUCER... Miranda Paiz
DRAMATURG/ENSEMBLE DIRECTOR... Clara Kraebber, Amelia Lewis
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR... Keala Henry, Su Khadka
PRODUCED WITH... Columbia University’s King’s Corwn Shakespeare Troupe