ROVING SHAKESPEARE 

The Roving Production Style: 

 

With the Rovers, you’ll be able to witness or participate in three distinct styles of rehearsal and performance across the country.

 

Using our diverse experience and backgrounds, we like to explore early modern texts by creating devised productions. Using the words and themes from early modern scripts, we attempt to create something new that connects with thematic elements from across our season, our lives, and issues that we care strongly about. To accomplish this devising, we use a variety of tactics, including puppetry, movement, and maybe even a bit of roving.

 

Like many other theater companies, we also use a standard modern model of rehearsing and performing shows with a full length rehearsal process. You can see your favorite Shakespeare pieces, modern adaptations, and obscure early modern plays fully realized in a full length production.

 

Our patron and company favored style is our Roving Renaissance Show Series. These shows adopt the known rehearsal conditions of the theater companies of Shakespeare’s time: no outside director or designer, shortened rehearsal period, cue scripts, and a prompter. For most Roving Ren Shows, our actors get their cue scripts a month before rehearsal to memorize, and then come together for 20 to 30 hours before performing the show before an audience. This produces pure storytelling with giving the audience the joyful opportunity of watching actors work through unexpected moments of performance. Additionally, as we have spread across the country, we attempt to reach new places, spaces, and faces with this Roving Series, helping to spread ideas, education, and entertainment.

 

The Rovers are about roving to new theaters, new towns, and new states to perform and create early modern shows for and with anyone! If you want a Roving show in your area, contact your closest Rover for information on how to bring the Rovers and their work to you. See our Contact Page for information on your closest available Rover.