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A play by [[Jane Taylor|Taylor, Jane]].  
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''[[After Cardenio]]'' is a collaborative play, devised by [[Jane Taylor]].  
  
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A new work of experimental theatre, described as "a combination of sculptural puppetry, live performance, sound and visual art. The work is a meditation on the late works of William Shakespeare, and the lost play ''[[The History of Cardenio]]'' (registered 1653)".
  
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First published in the [[South African Theatre Journal]], 26(2):185-217(2012).
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One of some twelve new works commissioned by Renaissance scholar Stephen Greenblatt from Harvard University, in his deliberations on the “missing Shakespeare play.” for [[Cardenio|The Cardenio Project]]
  
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== Performance history in South Africa ==
  
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AFTER CARDENIO is a new work of experimental theatre. It is a combination of sculptural puppetry, live performance, sound and visual art.
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It was first performed in 2011 at the historical [[Anatomy Lecture Theatre]] on the University of Cape Town's Hiddingh Campus. It was created as part of '''The Cardenio Project''' and is a work of avant-garde puppet theatre, which utilizes a vellum puppet made by South African sculptor [[Gavin Younge]].
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The work is a meditation on the late works of William Shakespeare, whose play The History of Cardenio has disappeared with no extant copy of the original text. The so-called “missing Shakespeare play” was registered in 1653 (shortly after the episode with Anne Greene) by the publisher and bookseller, Humphrey Moseley, who declared that the play was by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, Shakespeare's collaborator on several of his late works. Moseley's credibility has been questioned, because of his commercial interest in the matter, but there is no question that a play titled The History of Cardenio was performed in London in 1613 by the King's Men. Little is known about the play, except that it is presumed that the work is named after Cardenio, a character in Cervantes' great novel, Don Quixote. The work is not set in the Renaissance; rather it is situated in the seventeenth century, in order to consider the legacies of Renaissance philosophy, patriarchy, and statecraft. It is worth noting that in 1652, two years after Anne Greene was hanged, the Dutch East India Company established a landing station at the Cape to facilitate its trade with the East. In such terms the story of Anne, science, and the forensic history of reproductive rights becomes part of the history of empire in South Africa.
 
  
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AFTER CARDENIO is one of some twelve new works commissioned by Renaissance scholar Stephen Greenblatt from Harvard University, in his deliberations on the “missing Shakespeare play.”
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CREATIVE TEAM:
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Writer/director: [[Jane Taylor]],
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Writer/director: Jane Taylor
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Creative collaborator: [[Aja Marneweck]] and the [[Paper Body Collective]]
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Creative collaborator: Aja Marneweck and the Paper Body Collective
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Puppet sculptor: [[Gavin Younge]]
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Puppet sculptor: Gavin Younge
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Sound design and composition: [[Julia Raynham]]
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Sound design and composition: Julia Raynham
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Artist: [[Penny Siopis]] as anatomy artist
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Artist: Penny Siopis as anatomy artist
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CAST: [[Jemma Kahn]] as Anne Greene/Dorotea; [[Dylan Esbach]] as Dr Petty and Cardenio; [[Martin Kintu]] as primary puppeteer, and Printer, and Luscinda;; [[Rouxnet Brown]] as the Assistant, and warrior puppeteer; [[Jeroen Kranenburg]] as Town crier and Don Quixote
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CAST:
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Jemma Kahn as Anne Greene/Dorotea
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The text of this work was first published in the [[South African Theatre Journal]], 26(2):185-217(2012).
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Dylan Esbach as Dr Petty and Cardenio
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Martin Kintu as primary puppeteer, and Printer, and Luscinda
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== Sources ==
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Rouxnet Brown as the Assistant, and warrior puppeteer
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Jeroen Kranenberg as Town crier and Don Quixote
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Taylor_(writer)
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http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~cardenio/index.html
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http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/jane-taylor-discusses-what-happened-after-after-cardenio/#sthash.o4o9h0sp.dpuf
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The text of ''[[After Cardenio]]'', ''[[South African Theatre Journal]]'', 26(2):185-217(2012).
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Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]
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Latest revision as of 10:41, 28 April 2018

After Cardenio is a collaborative play, devised by Jane Taylor.

A new work of experimental theatre, described as "a combination of sculptural puppetry, live performance, sound and visual art. The work is a meditation on the late works of William Shakespeare, and the lost play The History of Cardenio (registered 1653)".

One of some twelve new works commissioned by Renaissance scholar Stephen Greenblatt from Harvard University, in his deliberations on the “missing Shakespeare play.” for The Cardenio Project

Performance history in South Africa

It was first performed in 2011 at the historical Anatomy Lecture Theatre on the University of Cape Town's Hiddingh Campus. It was created as part of The Cardenio Project and is a work of avant-garde puppet theatre, which utilizes a vellum puppet made by South African sculptor Gavin Younge.


Writer/director: Jane Taylor, Creative collaborator: Aja Marneweck and the Paper Body Collective Puppet sculptor: Gavin Younge Sound design and composition: Julia Raynham Artist: Penny Siopis as anatomy artist CAST: Jemma Kahn as Anne Greene/Dorotea; Dylan Esbach as Dr Petty and Cardenio; Martin Kintu as primary puppeteer, and Printer, and Luscinda;; Rouxnet Brown as the Assistant, and warrior puppeteer; Jeroen Kranenburg as Town crier and Don Quixote

The text of this work was first published in the South African Theatre Journal, 26(2):185-217(2012).

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Taylor_(writer)

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~cardenio/index.html

http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/jane-taylor-discusses-what-happened-after-after-cardenio/#sthash.o4o9h0sp.dpuf

The text of After Cardenio, South African Theatre Journal, 26(2):185-217(2012).

Go to ESAT Bibliography

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Return to PLAYS I: Original SA plays

Return to PLAYS II: Foreign plays

Return to PLAYS III: Collections

Return to PLAYS IV: Pageants and public performances

Return to South African Festivals and Competitions

Return to The ESAT Entries

Return to Main Page

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