THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN’S MAIN CAMPUS IS SITUATED ON TREATY 6 TERRITORY AND THE HOMELAND OF THE MÉTIS.
By Eunice-Grace Domingo March 9, 2020
Why avenge your father’s death when you can just go on cute dates with your boyfriend?
By Eunice-Grace Domingo February 14, 2020
Your lacklustre relationship could really be sprung into action by three witches and a little regicide.
By Larissa Kurz August 20, 2015
The view of the river from outside the Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan tents is as appealing as ever, upstaged only by the drama taking place inside.
By Chelsea Powrie July 8, 2015
Talent from the faculty, staff and student body at the University of Saskatchewan will play a major role at this summer’s Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan festival.
By Canadian University Press September 20, 2013
Blank Verse is a series about Shakespeare in a university setting, put together by a team of roughly 50 students, graduates and friends of students of the University of British Columbia.
By Matt Cheetham January 3, 2013
Saskatoon’s newest theatre company, Theatre Naught, is bringing King Lear to the stage as its first and possibly only production.
By Matt Cheetham November 22, 2012
Greystone Theatre’s second play of the season is the classic historical drama Henry IV, Part 1. This play is not only a return to the works of Shakespeare (Greystone last produced Shakespeare with A Winter’s Tale in 2009) but a project long in the making for director Dwayne Brenna.
By Aren Bergstrom March 14, 2012
A kind of MTV-generation thinking pervades MacHomer. It’s thinking that says to make classic art (like the plays of Shakespeare) relatable to modern audiences, you should throw in some pop-culture references and, voila, you have an easily digestible version ready for the masses to consume.
It seems that Canadian comedian and stage performer Rick Miller subscribes to this sort of thinking, and he really runs with it in MacHomer, a shortened version of Macbeth in which every character is performed as a member of The Simpsons.