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Picking up a meme from [personal profile] landofnowhere, I'm going to go through Shakespeare's plays and list which ones I've read/seen/acted in. This post is partly in honor of the Underground Shakespeare Company at the University of Pennsylvania, of which I was a member for 9 years and with which I performed in 11 plays and countless one-off scenes, and which recently announced its dissolution after 18 years of Shakespeare. I definitely can't remember every production of these plays I've ever seen or every time I've read them, but I'll do what I can.

  • All's Well that Ends Well: Seen at Toronto's Shakespeare in High Park.
  • Antony and Cleopatra: Read the play for a class in college, and as one of K's group Shakespeare reads. I've never been in it. I've been in something called Antony and Cleopatra: Infinite Lives: a modern play about a production of Antony and Cleopatra taking place in an archaeology museum, but I played the professor producing the play, not one of the actors, so I didn't actually perform any of the Shakespeare.
  • As You Like It: Seen at least New York's Shakespeare in the Park and the Stratford Theatre Festival, and read with K.
  • Comedy of Errors: Seen at Philadelphia's Shakespeare in Clark Park, and read with K.
  • Coriolanus: Read for a class in college.
  • Cymbeline: Read in college, and seen an Underground Shakespeare Company production.
  • Hamlet: Read in high school and college and in a group read with K, seen at least productions by Underground Shakespeare and Boston's Shakespeare on the Common. At Penn, I was in a production called Elsinore, which was a combined simultaneous rendering of Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. I played Guildenstern, so I had more Stoppard lines than Shakespeare lines, but I was still part of the performance of Hamlet.
  • Henry IV, part 1: Seen at Stratford (in an abridged version as part of a compilation called Breath of Kings).
  • Henry IV, part 2: Seen at Stratford as part of the Breath of Kings production.
  • Henry V: Seen at Stratford as part of Breath of Kings.
  • Henry Vi, part 1: Never seen, been in, or read.
  • Henry VI, part 2: Nope.  
  • Henry VI, part 3: Not at all.
  • Henry VIII: Shakespeare wrote a play about Henry VIII? Never seen or read this one either.
  • Julius Caesar: Seen an Underground Shakespeare production.
  • King John: I've never read, seen, or been in this play, but I did perform one scene from it in one of Underground Shakespeare's biannual Shakepeare Cafés.
  • King Lear: Read in college, seen at Stratford, and played Edgar in the Underground Shakespeare production.
  • Love's Labour's Lost: Played Anthony Dull in the Underground Shakespeare production. My part was cut down to the point where I only had about six lines, and I was the only person not on stage during the interminable last scene, so I could go get a slice of pizza and be back in time for the curtain call. Saw a weird production of it last year by a group called "Shake and Bake Theater" in New York, where the actors serve you food during the play.
  • Macbeth: Read in high school and college and in group read with K., and seen at least two Underground Shakespeare productions.
  • Measure for Measure: Read in college, and seen an Underground Shakespeare production.
  • Merchant of Venice: Saw a production in college, and was in the Underground Shakespeare production as Gratiano.
  • Merry Wives of Windsor: Played Caius in the Underground Shakespeare production.
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream: Saw a high school production that my brother was in, and a Stratford production, read it in a group read with K., and played Bottom in an Underground Shakespeare production.
  • Much Ado About Nothing: Played Leonato in an Underground Shakespeare production. Also I've seen the Kenneth Branagh and Joss Whedon film versions.
  • Othello: Read in high school and college, and saw the Underground Shakespeare production.
  • Pericles, Prince of Tyre: Read in college and with K, and seen at Stratford.
  • Richard II: Seen at Stratford as part of Breath of Kings.
  • Richard III: Was part of an absolutely nightmarish Underground Shakespeare production. The actor who was supposed to play Richard quit about a week before the play was to open, and so the director re-conceived it as sort of a semi-staged reading with pantomime. I was in a different play that week but volunteered to be one of the mimes for the good of the company. Nobody came to see it.
  • Romeo and Juliet: Read in high school. seen at least two productions in college. I had a bit part in an Underground Shakespeare production as one of the two random Capulet soldiers who gets in a fight with the two random Montague soldiers in the first scene, having been asked to fill in a the last minute.
  • The Taming of the Shrew: Seen the Underground Shakespeare production.
  • The Tempest: Read in college, seen the Shakespeare in Clark Park production and the (bad) Julie Taymor movie, played Prospero in the Underground Shakespeare production.
  • Timon of Athens: Seen in college.
  • Titus Andronicus: Seen two Underground Shakespeare productions, plus the Julie Taymor movie.
  • Troilus and Cressida: Read as part of a group-read with K.
  • Twelfth Night: Played Feste in high school, seen Underground Shakespeare, Stratford, and Pig Iron productions, and group-read with K. Played Antonio in Act V of a thrown-together silly production for the 10th anniversary of the Underground Shakespeare Company.
  • The Two Gentlemen of Verona: Played Launce in high school, and seen an Underground Shakespeare production.
  • The Two Noble Kinsmen: No, but I was in an Underground Shakespeare Café scene from it.
  • The Winter's Tale: Read in college, seen an Underground Shakespeare production, group-read with K.

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