Audiobooks by Tina Packer

"Dazzling and illuminating"-- Boston Globe "Brilliant! Fearlessly impassioned acting that you'll remember for as long as you live."-- Wall Street Journal A tour de force, in-studio performance for Shakespeare lovers, scholars, artists and anyone who thinks the lady doth protest too much! Join Master Shakespearean actor, Tina Packer as she deconstructs and conjures Shakespeare's most famous female characters. She is joined by multi-award-winning actor Nigel Gore who plays Romeo to Packer's Juliet and Petruchio to her Kate. Together they bring listeners on a unique journey for the ears as they explore love, loss and power through Shakespeare's heroines, combining the most beloved Shakespeare scenes with fascinating analysis. "The play explores Shakespeare's own enlightenment as he delves into the female psyche, and realizes if we don't deeply listen to what the women say, we are never going to solve the problems of the world!" Tina Packer Through this unique performance, listeners will discover the mastery of Tina Packer (founder of the world-renowned Shakespeare & Company) hailed "marvelous!" by The New York Times and "irresistible" by the Associated Press. And the steady brilliance of Nigel Gore (narrator of The Time Machine by H. G. Wells, also from Alison Larkin Presents.)

Nigel Gore, Tina Packer (Author), Nigel Gore, Tina Packer (Narrator)

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Shakespeare & Company: When Action is Eloquence

Shakespeare & Company: When Action is Eloquence is the first comprehensive insight into this internationally acclaimed company founded in 1978 in Lenox, Massachusetts, by actor-director Tina Packer and voice pioneer Kristin Linklater, with the transformative power of Shakespeare's language at its heart. Why act Shakespeare? What's his relevance in the twenty-first century? Compelling answers to these questions lie at the center of this highly accessible journey into Shakespeare & Company's aesthetics and practice. Drawing on hitherto unpublished material - including notebooks, lectures, interviews, rehearsal diaries - and the Company's newly collated archive, this book provides insight into a working theatre company and sheds light on the role Shakespeare plays in our modern world. It also details: Shakespeare & Company's founding and early history Its aesthetic based on the Elizabethan theatre's principles of the Art of Rhetoric; Structure of the Verse; Voice and Movement; Clown; Fight; and Actor/Audience Relationship Vocational components of its Training Intensives Practical pedagogy of its Education programs Insights into its unique approaches to Performance Impact and legacy of its three lifetime founding members: Dennis Krausnick (Director of Training), Kevin G. Coleman (Director of Education) and Tina Packer (founding artistic director). Actors, directors, students, educators, scholars and theatre-lovers alike will find practical acting strategies, inspirational approaches to theatre making and lively insights into the sustaining of a unique and robust theatre company that has been thriving for over 40 years.

Bella Merlin, Tina Packer (Author), Allyn Burroughs, B.H. Barry, Bella Merlin, Devante Owens, Jenny Jadow, Kevin Coleman, Maconnia Chesser, Natsuko Ohama, Rory Hammond, Susan Dibble, Tina Packer (Narrator)

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Tales from Shakespeare

Legendary actress and Shakespearean expert, Tina Packer takes all the fear out of understanding Shakespeare by adapting ten of The Bard's most famous plays into easily understood short stories, retold in modern language. Her introduction provides the listener with easy-to-digest information about Elizabethan England and Shakespeare's life and work. "Packer captures the essence of the playwright's words and ideas, placing them in concise and clearly told stories...A treasure trove of well-told tales." -School Library Journal A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, King Lear, As You Like It, Macbeth, The Tempest, Othello, Twelfth Night, and Romeo and Juliet. "We're passionate about bringing the classics to today's listeners in fun, relevant and easy-to-listen-to audiobooks," says producer Alison Larkin. "As soon as I learned that Tina has turned ten of Shakespeare's most famous plays into short stories I knew they would make for an entertaining and important audiobook. I asked Tina to narrate them herself. Fortunately she said YES!"

Tina Packer (Author), Tina Packer (Narrator)

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Women of Will: Following the Feminine in Shakespeare's Plays

Women of Will, a narrative combining trenchant analysis and riveting scenes, explores the themes of love, loss, freedom, control, violence, and power through the heroines of Shakespeare’s text. Drawing on her knowledge as director, actor, and teacher, Packer traces the chronological evolution of Shakespeare’s female characters and examines Shakespeare’s own journey and growth as a writer from feckless misogynist in his youth to committed lover in his middle years to unrepentant feminist in his final years. Based on her five-part theatrical performance of the same name (currently touring throughout the world), Women of Will, combines the knowledge of performance, discussion, and debate with the dramatic tension stemming from the influences Shakespeare responded to in his life, and from Packer’s desire to show how powerful and distinct the women characters are in his plays. From Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing to Lady Macbeth to Paulina in A Winter’s Tale and everyone in between, Women of Will gives a unique and exhilarating perspective on some of the most well-known classical texts in the English language.

Tina Packer (Author), Nigel Gore, Tina Packer (Narrator)

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