Broads and the Bard: Shake-Scene Shakespeare

This week we chat with Lizzie Conrad Hughes and Valentina Vinci about their cue based Shakespeare company, Shake-Scene Shakespeare. We dive into zoom theatre, working with actors from around the world, and what it's like to work at a female led Shakespeare company.

LIZZIE CONRAD HUGHES (she/her)

A lifetime theatre professional (actor, writer, director, producer and teacher), Lizzie is the founder and Artistic Director of Shake-Scene Shakespeare, currently the UK’s only exclusively cue-based teaching and performing company producing Shakespeare contemporaries from cues only. Lizzie is researching a practice-led PhD at the Shakespeare Institute. Her experience as an actor, director, producer and book-holder for Shake-Scene, as well as her professional acting career, inform her research interests.

Follow Lizzie on X: @lizziecanttweet

VALENTINA VINCI (she/her)

Valentina Vinci is an Italian actor and technical producer based in the UK. She represented Italy in the 2015 International Actors' Fellowship at Shakespeare's Globe and has appeared in over 40 Shakespearean productions both in the UK and Internationally. Valentina is a partner in Shakes-Scene Shakespeare, and has been part of the new online action choreography’s development and artistry.

Follow Valentina on X: @valen.vinci.tina

Donate to Shake-Scene's crowdfunder: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-shake-scene-shakespeare-going-up-north

Patreon - search for Shake-Scene Shakespeare

LINKTREE - https://linktr.ee/shakesceneshakespeare

Tickets for August shows at SHAKESPEARE NORTH PLAYHOUSE - https://shakespearenorthplayhouse.co.uk/event/shake-scene-shakespeare/

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TikTok: @shakesceneshakespeare

Twitter: @shakescenery

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Visit their website at www.shake-sceneshakespeare.co.uk

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Art by Lizzy Colandene

Music by Constantino Fernandez

Sound by Jonathan Miot

Podcast by Micaela Mannix