Tina Packer - Shakespeare in the Time of #MeToo (Berklee Intervals)

At the height of the #MeToo movement, renowned Shakespearean scholar Tina Packer was invited to Boston Conservatory at Berklee as a Kunkemueller Guest Artist to collaborate on a devised work with contemporary theater students. The result was And Speak I Will, a laboratory workshop that joined the sophomore and junior contemporary theater ensembles in an exploration of sexual harassment through three works of Shakespeare—The Taming of the Shrew, Troilus and Cressida, and Measure for Measure.
Now, a year after the #MeToo movement took hold, watch Packer discuss her artistic choices and reveal the misogynist leanings of early Shakespeare and his Elizabethan society.
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Cast:
Amanda Bowman
Fray Cordero
Atlee Jensen
Susanne McDonald
Luis Mendoza
Shreya Navile
Audrey Owen
Jordan Palmer
Manny Rosario
Victor Ventricelli
Shanelle Villegas
Rebecca Wolf
Sharmarke Yusuf
Galiya Zhangbyrshy
Production Credits:
Producer: Jeannie Greeley
Editor: Jeannie Greeley
Assistant Editor: Isak Kotecki
Design: Audrey Harrer
Cameras: Isak Kotecki, Angel Irizarry, Peter Xiong, Matthew Lewis
Audio Recording and Mix: Andres Gonzalez Cardona
Featured music:
"Chrono Trigger" (Yasunori Mitsuda)
Arranger: David Peacock (Berklee College of Music)
Violin 1: Lizzie Jones, M.M. '12, G.P.D. '18
Violin 2: Michael Hustedde (Boston University)
Viola: Roselie Samter, M.M. '09
Cello: Jeremiah Barcus, M.M. '16, G.P.D. '18
Recording Engineer & Mixing Engineer: Cal Brockie
Images courtesy of Shakespeare & Company