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"Unscene:" Chesapeake Shakespeare's All-Female Take on the Bard

Chesapeake Shakespeare Company

Shakespeare is busting out all over the Charm City theater scene.  This weekend, Center Stage continues its run of As You Like It, and the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company is featuring its troupe of young theater artists in a show called Unscene, which is a pastiche of scenes from various Shakespeare plays.  It’s not at all unusual for there to be more than one production of a Shakespeare play in Baltimore at the same time. What’s remarkable about both of these offerings is that both casts are entirely female.  The Girl-Power Shakespeare has been a hit in New York, Toronto, and elsewhere, and as it takes its place in Baltimore, we turn to Seamus Miller, who has conceived and directed the Chesapeake Shakespeare show, and Carson Elizabeth Gregory, one of the women in the cast, for a look into how this particular piece came about.  They join Tom in the studio.

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