ZOOM THEATER with SWEET TEA SHAKESPEARE
During the epidemic that has taken over our lives the last year and a half, I have been working remotely on Zoom with Sweet Tea Shakespeare Company in Fayetteville, NC as an actor in their Digital Restoration Series (DRS); a program dedicated to producing Restoration Plays online. I started with them in August of 2020, continued through April 2021.
These are originally directed to become audio dramas and you are able to find them on Spotify or any other podcast app, just search for Sweet Tea Shakespeare!
Our live performances via Zoom are uploaded to Sweet Tea’s YouTube page:
The Rover by Aphra Behn
(Angellica)
The Man of Mode by George Etherege
(Belinda)
The Beaux’s Stratagem by George Farquhar
(Mrs. Sullen)
The Belle’s Stratagem by Hannah Cowley
(Mrs. Racket)
Venice Preserv’d by Thomas Otway
(Aquilina)
All directed by Claire Martin, the Assistant Artistic Director of Sweet TeA
Consider donating to this small theater company! You would not only be helping the administration stay afloat, you’d support the actors and crew who make these plays a reality.
To learn more about Restoration Theatre, check out the R/18 Collective.
“We formed the R/18 Collective in 2019 to promote professional productions of plays drawn from the Restoration and Eighteenth-Century repertoire and to support performance research related to those productions. Composed of scholars from the UK, the US, and Canada, the Collective seeks both to cultivate strong, reciprocal relationships between scholars and theatre artists and to increase awareness among theatre audiences of the great riches embedded in dramatic works from this era. We believe these plays provide urgently-needed insights into a modernity with which we are still living, including the historical development of our current ideas about race, gender, sexuality, nation, and capital.”