Empty Chair Theatre Company
The Shakespeare Showcase

Scenes By William Shakespeare

Directed by Elizabeth Nearing and Julia Sears



Shakespeare Showcase Actors Ashleigh Brown and Julian Morris


In Empty Chair Theatre Company's premiere production The Shakespeare Showcase seven actors brought to life some of Shakespeare's most famous characters. This first performance opened June of 2007 at H-B Woodlawn's Balck Box Theatre. The company performed a wide range of scene's from Romeo and Juliet, Measure for Measure, A Midsummer Night's Dream, TItus Andronicus, Othello, Hamlet, Taming of the Shrew, Comedy of Errors, Love's Labour's Lost and Macbeth.  Nearing and Sears directed as well as acted in the production. The Shakespeare Showcase began the companies principal of intensely colabrative plays that allow performers to explore every aspect of live theatre.



Company Founders Julia Sears and Elizabeth Nearing.


  


 Cast of The Shakespeare Showcase

Demetrius/ Romeo....................................... Greg Benson

Antipholus of Syracuse/
Desdemona/ Hamlet/Aaron/
Katherine ....................................................Ashleigh Brown

Emelia/ Gertrude/
Helena/ Lucius Andronicus/
Berowne...................................................... Kyle Eichner

Nurse/ Nell/ Othello
Macbeth....................................................... Julian Morris

Dromio of Syracuse/
Polonius........................................................Elizabeth Nearing

Don Adriano De Armado/
Angelo...........................................................Thomas Schratweiser

Juliet/ Ghost/
Lady Macbeth/Isabella
Petruccio........................................................Julia Sears