Hamlet to Hamilton:
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Season One
Hosted by Emily C. A. Snyder
With an in-depth primer on how verse drama is its own unique form of storytelling
And how you can begin to take ownership of the form for yourself
With an in-depth primer on how verse drama is its own unique form of storytelling
And how you can begin to take ownership of the form for yourself
Defining Verse Drama
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Episode One: Defining Verse Drama (Prose vs. Verse)
Episode Two: Content Dictates Form (When to write in verse)
Episode Three: Schwumpf, There It Is (Perhaps the Most Important Episode, AKA: What does a line of verse actually do? With a side of German philosophy.)
Episode Four: Tool Boudoir (What makes a line of verse? What does meter, scansion, white space and other tools available to us do?)
Episode Five: Beyond Iambic Pentameter (From the first blank verse play, to modern iterations...and the pitfalls of counting to ten)
Episode Six: Experimental Forms (Irregular line endings? Check. Unmetered verse? Check. Loads of white space and things unsaid? Check. Who said verse was stodgy?)
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Season Two
Featuring Emily C. A. Snyder, Colin Kovarik, and special guest Nick Ritacco
As they explore how various playwrights have written the story of
The Guinevere/Lancelot relationship through verse drama
As they explore how various playwrights have written the story of
The Guinevere/Lancelot relationship through verse drama
Arthur Through the Ages
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Episode One: Early Arthur (1500-1850)
Episode Two: Victorian Arthur (1850-1910)
Episode Three: The Year of Arthur (Three plays from 1895)
Episode Four: Arthur in the Early Aughts (1990-2010)
Episode Five: Once and Future Arthur (2010-2020)
Episode Six: Arthurian Author Roundtable (A chat with living verse playwrights, who've tackled the Arthurian legend)
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A screenshot from our mini-series on Lancelot and Guinevere scenes from verse plays, featuring Nick Ritacco as Lancelot, Emily C. A. Snyder as Guinevere, and Colin Kovarik as everybody else! With plays dating back to the 1580's through to two new Arthurian verse plays written in 2019 (including The Table Round), we're digging into how well each playwright developed this timeless romance through the power of poetry.
Arthur Through the Ages mini-series will premiere in December 2020. |