Artistic Director Karen Lee Pickett, Shakespeare scholar Dr. Erin Kelly, and Sheila Landahl, co-author of CONSTANCE, chat about Constance’s soliloquy featured in Season Three, Episode 5. You can listen to this educational deep dive either in preparation for your soliloquy adventure, or afterwards, as a thought provoking addendum to the performance in Season Three, Episode 5! To donate to the Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival, please visit www.vicshakespeare.com/donate Sound design and the...
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Artistic Director Karen Lee Pickett, Shakespeare scholar Dr. Erin Kelly, and Sheila Landahl, co-author of CONSTANCE, chat about Constance’s soliloquy featured in Season Three, Episode 5. You can listen to this educational deep dive either in preparation for your soliloquy adventure, or afterwards, as a thought provoking addendum to the performance in Season Three, Episode 5! To donate to the Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival, please visit www.vicshakespeare.com/donate Sound design and the...
Artistic Director Karen Lee Pickett, Shakespeare scholar Dr. Erin Kelly, and Sheila Landahl, co-author of CONSTANCE, chat about Constance’s soliloquy featured in Season Three, Episode 5. You can listen to this educational deep dive either in preparation for your soliloquy adventure, or afterwards, as a thought provoking addendum to the performance in Season Three, Episode 5! To donate to the Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival, please visit www.vicshakespeare.com/donate Sound design and the...
In this episode, Sheila Landahl performs Constance’s speech, from Act 3, Scene 4 of King John. Season Three of The Soliloquy Project features the soliloquys of Shakespeare's forgotten women, and spotlights the widows and scorned women who are oft left out of canonical reviews. What can we learn from these forgotten characters? Listen to Season 3, Episode 6 to find out. To donate to the Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival, please visit www.vicshakespeare.com/donate. Sound design and theme so...
Artistic Director Karen Lee Pickett and Shakespeare scholar Dr. Erin Kelly chat about Katherine’s soliloquy featured in Season Three, Episode 3. You can listen to this educational deep dive either in preparation for your soliloquy adventure, or afterwards, as a thought provoking addendum to the performance in Season Three, Episode 3! To donate to the Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival, please visit www.vicshakespeare.com/donate Sound design and theme song by Taylor Lewis Thank you to the C...
In this episode, Ariel Slack performs Katherine’s speech, from Act 2, Scene 4 of Henry VIII. Season Three of The Soliloquy Project features the soliloquys of Shakespeare's forgotten women, and spotlights the widows and scorned women who are oft left out of canonical reviews. What can we learn from these forgotten characters? Listen to Season 3, Episode 4 to find out. To donate to the Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival, please visit www.vicshakespeare.com/donate. Sound design and theme song...
Artistic Director Karen Lee Pickett and Shakespeare scholar Dr. Erin Kelly chat about the soliloquy featured in Season Three, Episode One. What is the significance of the countess's speech? How does it fit into the folktale of All's Well That Ends Well? You can listen to this educational deep dive either in preparation for your soliloquy adventure, or afterwards, as a thought provoking addendum to the performance in Season Three, Episode One! To donate to the Greater Victoria Shakespeare Fes...
In this episode, Karen Lee Pickett performs the Countess’s speech, from Act 1, Scene 3, of All’s Well That Ends Well. Season Three of The Soliloquy Project features the soliloquys of Shakespeare's forgotten women, and spotlights the widows and scorned women who are oft left out of canonical reviews. What can we learn from these forgotten characters? Listen to Season 3, Episode 2 to find out. To donate to the Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival, please visit www.vicshakespeare.com/dona...
In our season finale, Artistic Director Karen Lee Pickett and Shakespeare scholar Dr. Erin Kelly unpack the invention of the sonnet, and Phebe’s purpose in As You Like It . You can listen to this educational deep dive either in preparation for your outdoor soliloquy adventure, or afterwards, as a thought provoking addendum to the performance in Season Two, Episode Nine! To donate to the Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival, please visit www.vicshakespeare.com/donate Sound design and theme...
Season Two features soliloquies exclusively from Shakespeare's As You Like It. In Episode 9, Danica Charlie performs Phebe's “I would not be thy executioner”; a soliloquy from Act Three, Scene Five. To listen on location, make your way to Kosapsom Park at the beginning of the Gorge Waterway walking path, at the intersection of Admirals Road and Gorge Road. (The Number 11 bus route will take you here. If driving, you will find a small parking lot at Kosapsum Park off of Gorge Road). Find a ...
Season Two features soliloquies exclusively from Shakespeare's As You Like It. In Episode 7, Nathaniel Exley performs Rosalind's “There is none of my uncle’s marks upon you”; a soliloquy from Act Three, Scene Two. To listen on location, turn on to Rock Street from Quadra and follow the signs leading you to Playfair Park. If walking, you'll reach the park is less than five minutes. Playfair Park is a protected ecosystem, and is home to a rare Garry Oak meadow and hundreds of mature azaleas an...
Artistic Director Karen Lee Pickett and Shakespeare scholar Dr. Erin Kelly chat about the concept of ‘love melancholy’ and the malady of love in Rosalind’s speech to Orlando. You can listen to this educational deep dive either in preparation for your outdoor soliloquy adventure, or afterwards, as a thought provoking addendum to the performance in Season Two, Episode Seven. To donate to the Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival, please visit www.vicshakespeare.com/donate Sound design and th...
Season Two features soliloquies exclusively from Shakespeare's As You Like It. In Episode 5, Taylor Lewis performs Jaques's “A fool! A fool!”; a soliloquy from Act Two, Scene Seven. To listen on location, take yourself to Míqәn (Colonially know as Beacon Hill Park). Enter the park on the south (water) side, a few minutes' walk West from Cook Street. Turn right into the park at the first crosswalk or just a few steps past it using Camas Crescent. The Story Pole will be in front of you,...
Artistic Director Karen Lee Pickett and Shakespeare scholar Dr. Erin Kelly chat about Jaques’ witty retelling of his forest encounter, the meaning of ‘fool’, and what lady fortune has to do with all of this. You can listen to this educational deep dive either in preparation for your outdoor soliloquy adventure, or afterwards, as a thought provoking addendum to the performance in Season Two, Episode Five! To donate to the Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival, please visit www.vicshakespeare...
Happy Holidays! Here's a bonus episode! Singer, song writer, musician, and actor Willis Taylor has written and recorded this beautiful piece using Shakespeare's word from Act 3, Scene 2 of As You Like It. We hope you enjoy it as much as we have!
Season Two features soliloquies exclusively from Shakespeare's As You Like It. In Episode 3, Wendy Magahay performs Adam's “O Unhappy Youth”; a soliloquy from Act Two, Scene Three. To listen on location, head to Craigdarroch Castle just off of Fort Street on Joan. Walk up the main driveway and head to the rear of the castle (the south side). Stand facing the castle and you'll see there's a rear entrance on your right. Walk toward it and you'll discover a few steps going down to the doo...
Artistic Director Karen Lee Pickett and Shakespeare scholar Dr. Erin Kelly chat about Adam’s warning to Orlando, breaking down and investigating both the language and contextual meaning of the speech. You can listen to this educational deep dive either in preparation for your outdoor soliloquy adventure, or afterwards, as a thought provoking addendum to the performance in Season Two, Episode Three! To donate to the Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival, please visit www.vicshakespeare....
Artistic Director Karen Lee Pickett and Shakespeare scholar Dr. Erin Kelly chat about As You Like It's opening speech. Why open a play in the middle of a conversation? How does this set the tone for the rest of the play? Do you know the significance of the name Orlando? You can listen to this educational deep dive either in preparation for your outdoor soliloquy adventure, or afterwards, as a thought provoking addendum to the performance in Season Two, Episode One! To donate to the Gre...
Season Two features soliloquies exclusively from Shakespeare's As You Like It. Opening our second season, SJ Valiquette performs Orlando's “As I remember, Adam, it was Upon This Fashion”; a soliloquy from Act One, Scene One. To listen on location, enter Circle Drive off of Douglas Street, in Beacon Hill Park. Continue along Circle Drive, and pass the Petting Zoo. Just after the Petting Zoo, you will see to your left a grassy expanse with trees in the distance, lined by a low wooden f...
Artistic Director Karen Lee Pickett and Shakespeare scholar Dr. Erin Kelly close out our first season with a chat about 'What is really going on for Hamlet?' in one of Shakespeare's most famous soliloquies: 'I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth''. You can listen to this educational deep dive either in preparation for your outdoor soliloquy adventure, or afterwards, as a thought provoking addendum to the performance in Episode 9! To donate to the Greater Vic...
In our Season One finale, Adrienne Smook performs 'I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth'; a soliloquy from one of Shakespeare's most famous plays: Hamlet. To listen on location, head to the top of PKOLS (colonially known as Mt. Doug), either by foot or vehicle. (Note that the vehicle access is closed before noon, and all day on holidays!) Head up the trail heading north. There, you will find a large cement look out point. Position yourself in such a way as to look...
In this episode, Artistic Director Karen Lee Pickett and Shakespeare scholar Dr. Erin Kelly talk about the awareness of 'history' in Shakespeare's 'Histories', and other significant moments in 'Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus', Cassius's soliloquy, featured in Episode 7. You can listen to this educational deep dive either in preparation for your outdoor soliloquy adventure, or afterwards, as a thought provoking addendum to the performance in Episode 7! To d...
Artistic Director Karen Lee Pickett, Shakespeare scholar Dr. Erin Kelly, and Sheila Landahl, co-author of CONSTANCE, chat about Constance’s soliloquy featured in Season Three, Episode 5. You can listen to this educational deep dive either in preparation for your soliloquy adventure, or afterwards, as a thought provoking addendum to the performance in Season Three, Episode 5! To donate to the Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival, please visit www.vicshakespeare.com/donate Sound design and the...
