We look forward to presenting the one-man show SHAKE-SPEARE’S TREASON during the Joint Conference of the Shakespeare Fellowship and the Shakespeare Oxford Society to be held November 5-8 in Houston, Texas. The 90-minute solo show is performed by Hank Whittemore, co-writer with Ted Story, who directed it.
“Riveting, inspiring, entertaining … amazing and thought-provoking … The words of the Sonnets finally make sense and the story is more personal and exciting than I ever imagined!”
– Students of Flathead Valley Community College, Montana, in a letter following Hank’s performance in March 2008. (We look forward to returning for two more performances in March 2010!)
“A ripping tale of murder, treason, hangings, bastardy, love, betrayal and danger … and one of those Big Thoughts that, if you embrace it, seems to clear up a lot of mystery.”
– Bill Varble, Medford Mail Tribune, Oregon
We also look forward to experiencing two different solo performances by Keir Cutler of Montreal— Teaching Shakespeare and Is Shakespeare Dead?
"Shakespeare" and Keir Cutler
Teaching Shakespeare is a parody of a college Shakespeare class, and a portrait of a frustrated actor turned frustrated professor struggling to keep his teaching position, despite terrible student evaluations.
Is Shakespeare Dead? is a monologue adaptation of Mark Twain’s hilarious 1909 debunking of the myth that William Shakespeare wrote the works of Shakespeare. Listing the handful of established facts of Shakespeare’s life, Twain ridicules the fantasy that an uneducated youth could have wandered into London and, with virtually none of the necessary skills, became the greatest author in English literature.
Current details of the conference are posted at the Shakespeare Oxford Society blog hosted by Linda Theil.
Hank Whittemore's Shakespeare Blog 
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