Closing African-American Shakespeare Company's 16th season is a spellbinding take on Shakespeare's TWELFTH NIGHT. Acclaimed actor and African-American Shakespeare Company Artistic Director L. Peter Callender directs TWELFTH NIGHT, featuring an original jazz score by renowned Bay Area jazz musician and composer Marcus Shelby. TWELFTH NIGHT plays April 1 through May 1 (press opening: April 1) at the African American Art & Culture Complex in San Francisco. For tickets ($15-35) and more information, the public may call 1-800-838-3006 or visit African-AmericanShakes.org.
This riveting, film noir-inspired production of TWELFTH NIGHT, The Bard's most popular comedy, gets a provocative re-setting in the mid-1940s. African-American Shakespeare Company's stylish re-imagining combines Shakespeare's poetry with an original jazz score, transporting this tale of loss, new-found love, and mistaken identities to the fog-drenched streets and smoke-filled clubs of San Francisco.
" ‘Twelfth Night' has always been my favorite of Shakespeare's comedies," said African-American Shakespeare Company Artistic Director L. Peter Callender. "Film noir is one of my favorite genres of movie-making as well; it recalls the hey-day of San Francisco and the hot and sultry sounds of the jazz music of the 1940s." Continued Callender, "African-American Shakespeare Company's re-imagining of this Shakespeare classic resets the story in my favorite
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This riveting, film noir-inspired production of TWELFTH NIGHT, The Bard's most popular comedy, gets a provocative re-setting in the mid-1940s. African-American Shakespeare Company's stylish re-imagining combines Shakespeare's poetry with an original jazz score, transporting this tale of loss, new-found love, and mistaken identities to the fog-drenched streets and smoke-filled clubs of San Francisco.
" ‘Twelfth Night' has always been my favorite of Shakespeare's comedies," said African-American Shakespeare Company Artistic Director L. Peter Callender. "Film noir is one of my favorite genres of movie-making as well; it recalls the hey-day of San Francisco and the hot and sultry sounds of the jazz music of the 1940s." Continued Callender, "African-American Shakespeare Company's re-imagining of this Shakespeare classic resets the story in my favorite
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