RICHARD II
WORKSHOP 2024
American Youth Shakespeare’s Spring workshop explores Shakespeare’s Richard II.
For information about the friends and family performance, please contact Artistic Director Bob Rumsby (bob.rumsby@yahoo.com)
Stay tuned for details about our next full-length Shakespeare production, August 22nd to 25th at the Historic Hoover Theater.
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
What right have you to be merry? What reason have you to be merry?
“Bah!” said Scrooge, “Humbug!”
American Youth Shakespeare presents the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol
Friday December 8, 2023 at 7 pm
Houge Park Studio Theatre
3949 Twilight Dr, San Jose
Saturday December 9th at 2 pm and 7 pm
Sunday December 10th at 3 pm
HAMLET
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god: the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!
American Youth Shakespeare presents HAMLET
Thursday, September 7th at 7 pm
Friday, September 8th at 7 pm
Saturday, September 9th at 7 pm
Sunday, September 10th at 3 pm SOLD OUT
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
Join us for A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM presented by American Youth Shakespeare
Saturday, May 20th at 2 pm and 7 pm
3949 Twilight Dr, San Jose
Sunday, May 21st at 3 pm
Saturday, May 27th at 2 pm and 7 pm
Sunday, May 28th at 3 pm
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
The Historic Hoover Theater
1635 Park Ave, San Jose
September 10th & 11th, 2022
JULIUS CAESAR
American Youth Shakespeare presents
JULIUS CAESAR
Houge Park Studio Theatre
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Eleven young actors present a new production of Shakespeare’s best-loved Roman play. Conspirators Brutus and Cassius plot to assassinate Julius Caesar, sparking a civil war between “these butchers” and armies led by Mark Antony and Octavius Caesar.
Four performances only at Houge Park, with limited seating:
Friday, April 29th at 7 pm: SOLD OUT
Saturday, April 30th at 2 pm: SOLD OUT
Saturday, April 30th at 7 pm: SOLD OUT
Sunday, May 1st at 3 pm: SOLD OUT
General admission: $20
Children 7 and under: $5
CAST
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Mateo McCullough - Brutus
Griffin Sanders - Mark Antony
Henry Macauley - Julius Caesar
Iliana Flohr - Portia, Lepidus
Khristian Hoyt - Lucius, Soothsayer, Pindarus
Siyona Roychoudhury - Cassius
Violet Sanders - Casca, Murellus, Strato
Emma Griffith - Cinna, Titinius
Rivaan Roychoudhury - Trebonius, Claudio
Stella Scott - Messala, Calpurnia, Metellus Cimber
Charles Gardella - Decius Brutus, Cicero, Octavius Caesar
There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.
DIRECTOR’S NOTES
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It’s good to be back! And it’s good to be working on Julius Caesar again, for the third time in our history. We first performed this play in 2009 with a cast of about 45 at the Theatre on San Pedro Square. We came back to it in 2015, with about 30 in the cast, at the Hoover Theatre, our usual “home” for the past 10 or 11 years. In 2022, we return after a long, frustrating break, to perform the same show in a very different way at our small studio theatre inside Building 1 at Houge Park.
We hope you’ll be able to join us–there will be four performances only, with limited seating. The running time of the show will be 2 hours, with one 15-minute intermission. Our snack bar will be open and families are very welcome!
Bob Rumsby, Director