{"id":4415,"date":"2016-09-07T08:22:24","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T13:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jaredmcdaris.com\/?p=4415"},"modified":"2016-09-07T08:34:42","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T13:34:42","slug":"this-month-in-history-revels-in-the-ravine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jaredmcdaris.com\/?p=4415","title":{"rendered":"This Month in History: Revels in the Ravine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four years ago this month, The Unrehearsed Shakespeare Company served as the guest manager\/director of the annual Bard in the Barn<\/a> festival at Western Illinois University. The performances were moved to the campus’ ‘Ravine’ performance space, hence changing the festival title: Revels in the Ravine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Unstoppable

Unstoppable powerhouse Tiza Garland as Cleopatra<\/p><\/div>\n

I had previously performed for Bard in the Barn since 2008: as Voltore in Volpone,<\/em> Lear in King Lear<\/em>, and Thersites in Troilus & Cressida<\/em> in 2010. Also in 2010, I directed Unrehearsed productions of Two Gentlemen of Verona<\/em> and The Merry Wives of Windsor<\/em>. At the time, the Unrehearsed Shakespeare Company was only beginning to make headway in Chicago. I returned as a performer in 2011 (as John in King John<\/em> and the inimitable Apemantus in Timon of Athens<\/em>), before Unrehearsed was officially invited to direct in 2012.<\/p>\n

\"AnthCleo0052\"

Me as Jaques. One of my all-time favorite photos<\/p><\/div>\n

We staged As You Like It and Antony & Cleopatra that year; directed by Zack Meyer and myself, respectively. Not only did I get to play Jaques for the first time, but I also got to witness some indescribable and unique moments in a lesser-done play: Andrew Behling’s Octavian was particularly moving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Four years ago this month, The Unrehearsed Shakespeare Company served as the guest manager\/director of the annual Bard in the Barn festival at Western Illinois University. The performances were moved to the campus’ ‘Ravine’ performance space, hence changing the festival … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theater-stuff","category-unrehearsed-shakespeare"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9u111-19d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jaredmcdaris.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jaredmcdaris.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jaredmcdaris.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jaredmcdaris.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jaredmcdaris.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4415"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.jaredmcdaris.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4421,"href":"http:\/\/www.jaredmcdaris.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4415\/revisions\/4421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jaredmcdaris.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jaredmcdaris.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jaredmcdaris.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}