GUERRILLA SHAKESPEARE PROJECT
PRESENTS THE WORLD PREMIERE OF
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The Guerrilla Shakespeare Project (GSP) is proud to announce the world premiere production of The Tragedy of Arthur by William Shakespeare, A Play by Arthur Phillips. Having always approached Shakespeare's text as if it were a new work, Guerrilla Shakespeare is ecstatic to hold
the exclusive rights to the first "Shakespeare" premiere in over 400 years. GSP hosted a sold out reading of acclaimed author Arthur Phillips' play at The Public Theater last summer, that American Theater Magazine called a "full-throttle reading" of a "swashbuckling, blood-and-guts five-act history play". Mr. Phillips was so impressed by the reading that he has agreed to collaborate with Guerrilla Shakespeare, and together we will create a full stage production of The Tragedy of Arthur in New York City. "If Shakespeare had just finished a new play in 2011, I am confident that GSP is the company he would turn to for the premiere." says Phillips.
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A Campaign 400 years in the making...
And we need YOUR help!!!
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The Tragedy of Arthur is our most ambitious project to date. We're launching an indiegogo campaign to raise the funds needed to make this dream possible. Every cent will go towards theater and rehearsal studio rentals, artist salaries, publicity and the purchase/rental of design elements. Basically...we can't do it without you.
This is an exciting opportunity for you to get in on the ground-floor of the development of a new 'Shakespeare' play! The first step is always the hardest. We know that once The Tragedy of Arthur has its first production, it will be on the radar of theater companies all around the globe. What summer Shakespeare festival wouldn't want to offer their audience a look at a disputed Shakesperean work alongside its production of A Midsummer Night's Dream or Romeo and Juliet? And you'll know that you helped give the play its start and people the world over will benefit from your generosity.
We hope that you'll consider making a donation. A pledge of any size will help! We know that making a monetary donation isn't possible for everybody. You can still help make The Tragedy of Arthur a success by coming to the show! Or spread the word to anyone in your life who might be interested in this exciting project by directing them to our indiegogo campaign or our website, www.guerrillashakespeare.org.
We hope to see you at the theater! Please make sure to introduce yourself; we'd love to meet and thank our donors in person.
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"The Play's the Thing"... Or is it?
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"The father's passions storm within the son." Act I, Scene IV The Tragedy of Arthur, centers around the discovery of a lost Shakespeare play and the doubts surrounding its origins. It is an evening of fraud, forgery and illegitimacy, centering on the complicated relationship between a father and son.
"There's only war. 'Tis man's inheritance." Act IV, Scene I
This lost text is the true story of the famous King Arthur from the Bard's point of view. It is a tale of epic war, love and the search for one man's true calling.
"What man knows aught of his chronicle?" Act V Scene III
The Tragedy of Arthur is a play full of Shakespeare's language, poetry, insight, drama, beauty, and history; however the mystery of its true origins, begs us to blend and blur what we know and what we choose to believe.
Does our birth decide our destiny? Can a bastard be a king? Can a modern man write Shakespeare? Join GSP on its exciting journey into the heart of the truth.
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Guerrilla Mission Statement
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With passion born of rebellion, we seek out the heart of the matter, battling against complacency in ourselves, our audience, and the American theatre. We struggle always for a passionate simplicity, for a visceral connection between actor and audience; only through this connection is great theatre possible. This is our cause. This is the revolution. This is Guerrilla Shakespeare.
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Check out the Novel
The Tragedy of Arthur is an emotional and elaborately constructed tour de force from bestselling and critically acclaimed novelist Arthur Phillips, "one of the best writers in America" (
The Washington Post).
By turns hilarious and haunting, this virtuosic novel-which includes Shakespeare's (?) lost King Arthur play in its five-act entirety-captures the very essence of romantic and familial love and betrayal.
The Tragedy of Arthur explores the tension between storytelling and truth-telling, the thirst for originality in all our lives, and the act of literary mythmaking, both now and four centuries ago, as the two Arthurs-Arthur the novelist and Arthur the ancient king-play out their individual but strangely intertwined fates.
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What We're Fighting For...
The Guerrilla Shakespeare Project thinks of every Shakespeare play as a new play. GSP fosters a vibrant, passionate, visceral connection between actor and audience to make inventive and immediate American theatre from classical works. Struggling always for simplicity and precision, our company promises to make the entertainment and beauty of Shakespeare accessible to all. Prizing skillful use of language and athletic storytelling, the ensemble of professional actors, directors and designers aims to blow apart the audience's conceptions of what Shakespeare has been by creating something new.
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Brooklyn's Bastard Bard
Arthur Phillips was born in Minneapolis and educated at Harvard. He has been a child actor, a jazz musician, a speechwriter, a dismally failed entrepreneur, and a five time Jeopardy champion.
His first novel, Prague, was named a New York Times Notable Book, and receivedThe Los Angeles Times/Art Seidenbaum Award for best first novel. His second novel, The Egyptologist, was an international bestseller, and was on more than a dozen "Best of 2004" lists. Angelica, his third novel, made The Washington Post best fiction of 2007 and led that paper to call him "One of the best writers in America." The Song Is You was a New York Times Notable Book, on the Post's best of 2009 list, and inspired Kirkus to write, "Phillips still looks like the best American novelist to have emerged in the present decade."
His work has been published in twenty-seven languages, and is the source of three films currently in development.
He lives in New York with his wife and two sons.
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