The Shakespearean Shrew
by The Shakespearean Shrew
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Take Back Your Time: Conversing with Steven Puri
Take Back Your Time: Conversing with Steven Puri
About this podcast
This podcast is going to be a decorum-be-damned entrance into understanding Shakespeare’s stages (for there are many) and all the players on it. We will be delving into the ever-pressing question: Why Shakespeare? Or, sometimes: Why, Shakespeare?!
Episodes
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- Take Back Your Time: Conversing with Steven Puri · 1 h 9 min · Season 3 Episode 12Do you ever get distracted? You sit down to write the next great novel, and suddenly, you have spent hours on social media and written three words on a page–three half-assed…
- Sympathy for the Monster with Paxton Kliewer: Caliban, Gollum, Charybdis, and Superman · 1 h 17 min · Season 3 Episode 11What are you scared of? More importantly, why? In this episode actor Paxton Kliewer and I will discuss monsters and the societies (and their prejudices and fears) that gave birth…
- Yes And: Looking Behind the Curtain with David Weber · 1 h 5 min · Season 3 Episode 10Have you ever wondered how a production goes from concept to performance? Join me as I speak to actor, writer, professor, and director David Weber about the difficulties of…
- Wuv, Twue Wuv with Miriam Eleanor Worley and Dalten Hall · 58 min · Season 3 Episode 9Did Shakespeare actually write a couple that isn’t a dumpster fire? Miriam Worley and Dalten Hall are very convincing in their depiction of opposites-attract lovers Miranda and…
- Calling All Readers! Joining the Romantic Movement with playwright and director Erin Woods and actors Charli Mai Henn and Jimmy Pike · 21 min · Season 3 Episode 8Romance is having a moment – and OSP is joining the ranks. Join the Brew Shrew, Michelle Coffman, as she returns to OSP to talk with Erin, Charli, and Jimmy about a brand new…
- Don’t Listen to Yoda - a conversation with YA author Mark Benson · 1 h 11 min · Season 3 Episode 7What do you do when your superpower is writing sadness? Lean in! I had the delightful opportunity to talk with Chicagoan Mark Benson after reading his debut YA novel Isaac and…
- A Badass Playwright and Two Badass Actors Tell It Like It Is · 1 h 1 min · Season 3 Episode 6Today I am joined by two amazing women: Margaret Upchurch and Naomi Love as they prepare for their upcoming performance of Aphra Behn’s The Rover. What’s it like to be the first…
- A Playwright, a Prostitute, and a Nun Walk Into Spring Break · 1 h 0 min · Season 3 Episode 5Spoiler Alert! This week we are once more talking to fabulous director and professor Lance Marsh as he takes on a performed reading of Aphra Behn’s The Rover with a limited…
- Saying Crap While Wearing Pantaloons with Luke Swanson · 54 min · Season 3 Episode 4Do you ever wonder what it takes to be an author? Do you want to find out? Join me this week as I talk with author Luke Swanson about a few of his books and what it has taken to…
- Kissing Cousins: Amanda Kohutek and Ella F. Martin · 57 min · Season 3 Episode 3**Clarification: these ladies are not cousins and nor do they kiss. Today we get to talk to Amanda Kohutek and Ella Martin about their experiences as best friends being double…
- Getting Wilde: On Taking Risks with Lance Marsh · 39 min · Season 3 Episode 2Let’s get Wilde – Oscar Wilde! (Sorry, I couldn’t help myself.) This episode allows me the opportunity to talk to amazing director, actor, and human Lance Marsh as we delve into…
- Redefining the Undefinable: Throwing Words with Kestral Gaian · 57 min · Season 3 Episode 1Welcome back! Season three is under way and we are starting out with a bang with British author Kestral Gaian, novelist, playwright, poet and professional over thinker. Join us…
- Peering at the Edge of Things: “Strange” Poetry with Mitch · 38 min · Season 2 Episode 28Why bother saying something if it’s impossible to understand? Join me as I talk to Mitch Laman, poet and academic, as he explains mediums, language, and genre and why we should…
- “Pimping Us In”: Coffee Queens Dish On the Jane Austen’s Christmas Cracker · 54 min · Season 2 Episode 27Join writer and director Erin Woods and improv and music director Amanda Lee along with Brew Shrew Michelle Coffman as we talk coffee, ice cream, improv, and holiday traditions…
- A One Man Actor’s Carol With David Weber: A Social Enema · 55 min · Season 2 Episode 26Join David Weber, friend, clown, professor, director, and amazing human, and the Shrew as we talk about not only the stages of a play but the stages of recovery in terms of…
- Finding Possibility: A Literary Legacy · 34 minAre you an author? Do you want to be? Listen up for tips and how to find a writer community as we talk with Charles Martin about his new book and the foundation and future of…
- Brotherly…Love: The Lion in Winter · 42 min · Season 2 Episode 24Keeping it all in the family, yeah, always a creepy aspect of royal families, but how does a fraternal relationship off stage impact a familial relationship on stage? Is the…
- Messing with Mackers: MacDeath! At TheatreCrude · 53 min · Season 2 Episode 23Two husband and wife duos in a row! This episode we talk to actor Tiffany Tuggle and Wil Rogers, actor and writer of MacDeath. (Yes, those are their real names - I asked.) We…
- Hurts So Good: Stretching One’s Muscles on the Stage · 45 min · Season 2 Episode 22Is acting like riding a bike? Like doing yoga after not stretching for a few years? In this episode, I get the opportunity to talk with Alissa Branch and Tim Grimm, two amazing…
- Fan Fiction: Belting Nazis with Showtunes · 36 min · Season 2 Episode 21In a political war rife with ugly rhetoric, Alix Golden brings a “new” weapon to the table: song. In this episode, we are talking to actor and writer of the new show…
