Shakespeare Plays as Corporate Slogans: Othello - Don’t Be Evil. Macbeth - Fail Better, Fail Faster. Cymbeline - Impossible is Nothing. Titus - Eat Fresh. Hamlet - Just Do It. Others?

Juliet: The orchard walls are high and hard to climb Romeo:

"So what does Shakespeare teach us? Nothing. His tragic theater is not a classroom. It is a fairground wall of death in which the characters are being pushed outward by the centrifugal force of the action but held in place by the friction of the language."

"...we keep you in one piece so that you can get up and work tomorrow." -Jacqueline Goldfinger: Also @martinekei:

“'There’s probably a Venn diagram of people who play GTA and people who like Shakespeare,'” Oosterveen admits, “'and the crossover is very small.'”

"We may never have heard the word “enseamed,” but when we hear an actor—wild with distress, disgusted to the point of nausea—stretch and hiss its syllables as if retching poison, then we learn something by feeling it..."

"The opera’s first words drew Cohen’s professional attention: 'Matter can be neither created nor destroyed, but only altered in form...' The text did not reflect scientists’ knowledge in 1945. Oppenheimer would have known better." via @librarycongress blogs.loc.gov/loc/2024/01/dr…

"We sincerely apologize in advance to any inconvenience this may cause you..."

"As the Shakespearian scholar Jonathan Bate has observed, “ecclesiastical law as shaped by the Bible says nothing about the clubbing of baby seals.” We have yet to see a conservationist production of Hamlet take advantage of this variant (although its time will surely come). "

.@bkadams on Richard II: "The play sharply examines fundamental questions we all have about nations: who has the right to lead; who is considered a legitimate citizen; and who we are willing to stand by in a time of political crisis and social upheaval."

“...the role of stage director is critical, as the gender profile of directors has a snowball effect on the gender breakdown of creative teams. By hiring more women directors, companies are likely to see an increase in women designers across productions."

"I realized that the job of dramaturgy isn’t to identify what’s wrong with plays & help fix them; rather the work was to encourage or inspire writers back to their desks, to embolden them to go the rest of the way..." –Todd London via @HowlRound bit.ly/3FhtMdE