Descripción
SEEDS OF TIME FESTIVAL Curated by Aejay Antonis Marquis Sponsored by Play On Shakespeare Six new plays developed over three weeks. This second annual festival invites audiences to explore the collision of fresh contemporary voices with classic stories. A living laboratory of imagination, craft, and bold new directions for the theatre. All Tickets are Choose Your Price Edward III By Octavio Solis Written after England’s victory over the Spanish Armada in 1588, Edward III follows the exploits of King Edward III and his son Edward, the Black Prince of Wales. England dominates on the battlefield as the play explores questions of kinghood and chivalry through the actions of King Edward and his son. Octavio Solis’s translation of the play provides all of the complexity and richness of the original while renewing the allusions and metaphors lost through time. Engaging with Edward III by William Shakespeare Octavio Solis (Playwright - Edward III ) Octavio Solis’ works have been mounted in theatres across the country such as the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Rep, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Portland Center Stage, the Alley Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Center Theatre Group, Yale Repertory Theatre, Denver Center for the Performing Arts and Hartford Stage. He worked as a voice actor/consultant on the Disney/Pixar film Coco. His fiction has been published in Zyzzyva, Catamaran, Huizache, and the Chicago Quarterly Review. His book Retablos is published by City Lights Publishing. He is a Thornton Wilder Fellow of the MacDowell Institute and a member of the Texas Institute of Letters.