Shakespeare Club of Western Australia in Perth, Western Australia | Community organisation

Shakespeare Club of Western Australia

Locality: Perth, Western Australia

Address: Citiplace Community Centre, Perth Railway Station 6000 Perth, WA, Australia

Website: http://perthshakespeareclub.blogspot.com.au

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25.01.2022 Ian Nichols's Shakespeare novel, 'The Bloodiest Rose', is currently being serialised at https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5346220 Two chapters are up already, but you can access them if you take the opportunity to patronise Ian, What's rmore, you get other stories and artwork as well.

23.01.2022 Meeting this Saturday, reading The Merry Wives of Windsor. It's so long since we last read this one that I have completely forgotten it. Better practise my lines...

18.01.2022 Saturday brought a special meeting of the Shakespeare Club in which we entertained each other with party pieces. These ranged from short talks on the history of the the Bard's times to a selection from Dickens's take on Shakespeare from Great Expectations. President Frances Dharmalingham and I did a scene from As You Like It - one of my favourite plays. Jon, our host for the afternoon, steered the proceedings and also gave a couple of interesting talks. Other members contributed too, each in line with their particular Shakespearean interest. Songs, soliloquies and short scenes were the order of the day. I hope this kind of afternoon might become an annual event as it makes a nice change from reading the plays.

16.01.2022 Kendal O'Brien, welcome to the page! We now have 88 'Likers'. You know you will all be welcome at Shakespeare Club meetings if you are in Perth.

15.01.2022 Check out the post re plans for the end-of-year at https://perthshakespeareclub.blogspot.com/

11.01.2022 We had a super party on Saturday! The January meeting is generally replaced by a social gathering, and of course we have another party in April. I'm sure you can all guess why... On the 17th of next month we shall have our usual meeting at the Citizens Centre. It won't be a play reading, however - we are to have a session on vocal coaching to help us read our parts better when we are reading plays, which is, of course, our usual monthly activity!

08.01.2022 Yesterday's meeting was great! Three of our number gave a rehearsed reading, in costume, of George Bernard Shaw's little play "The Dark Lady of the Sonnets'. Well -performed and well received, it is a wonderful take of one brilliant writer's affection for the work of another!

08.01.2022 Our president, Frances, has written a thoughtful review of the Bell Company's rendering of Julius Caesar. Check it out at https://perthshakespeareclub.blogspot.com/

07.01.2022 Next meeting, on June 16, marks the start of a new adventure - we will be reading The Two Noble Kinsmen, believed to have been a joint project by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher.

05.01.2022 Christmas celebrations today, at the usual venue!

04.01.2022 At our meeting tomorrow, we'll finish our reading of Henry VI part one. (Guess what we'll be reading first next year! No prizes for figuring out the obvious.) But next month we party! Yay!

02.01.2022 The next two meetings - October 21 and November 18 - will be devoted to reading Henry IV part one. I am down to read Poins, who as nasty, dishonest and sneaky a character as I've ever heard of! (Should be fun!)