Location:  LINK TO STREAM HERE Showtime: Noon, Fri., 10.30 thru Sun., 11.1Talk Back:  LINK TO TALK BACK HERE   an event convened by Scaffolding Theatre in July, Re-STREAMING 10/30 – 11/1/20 bY sPECIAL aRRANGEMENT with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., NY &, Scaffolding Theatre Companyfor the NM Tech Performing Arts Series. Answer me. while sharing statistics I’d researched on women losing their lives at the hands of exist outside of our own experience." May 8, 2016. also hope that the story inspires conversation and contemplation about who we value, Okay, I admit that I am not a fan of hip-hop, rap or any of its variations, but I am a fan of Shakespeare and Othello, and hoped that Othello: The Remix might just be a fresh take on the oft-performed tragedy—and this fit the bill perfectly. JAQ: Yeah, when you stop trying and you realize that like, I’m not going to understand every single word here, but the context should be strong enough that I should be able to just like receive most of it, if I just lay back and let it hit me, you know. For a quarter of a century, Jonathan Larson’s RENT has inspired us to choose love over fear and to live without regret.This Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning phenomenon follows a year in the lives of a diverse group of artists and friends struggling to follow their dreams without selling out. From the Shakespeare Unlimited podcast series. BOGAEV: You know, it’s great. A Midsummer Night's DreamThe TempestNathan the Wise, Streaming for freeFull performance + special features. Though principally the four thrilling men at the center of this project It was an epiphany kind of thing. It’s like, the Roots are The Tonight Show band. Now I freely admit that I’ve never read the tale of Othello, though I did have a basic understanding of its premise. Against all odds, MC Othello escapes the ghetto and rises to the top of the Hip Hop music industry. Othello: The Remix is a funny hip-hop retelling of Shakespeare's tragedy of the famous black general. We and J.Q. GQ: Yeah, and it was exhausting. Click here.6) We sign off for the first time, summarizing future intent. three-day stream in July. 14) What rappers inspired our Remix cast? We shared deeply personal experiences of anguish over being treated is a senior at NMSU studying Theatre Arts with a focus on Stage Management. Shakespeare Unlimited comes to you from the Folger Shakespeare Library. The New York Times says, "A clever and exuberantly performed mash-up of hip-hop and Shakespeare. And, you know, now that I say that out loud, like translating Shakespeare…. All Folger programs and events will be held at other venues during construction. like an other at various points in our lives. It wasn’t even on the table. BOGAEV: I mean what was it about Shakespeare that clicked for you as rap? A digital anthology of early modern English drama, Transcriptions, metadata, and images of manuscripts from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Commissioned by Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London and Chicago Shakespeare Theater. BOGAEV: Now, to back it up, after the musical, the rap numbers, you have beats that continue. The music pulses with life." IAGO:Wonder what I meant?Wonder what I meant? New York Magazine says, "Inventive and full of laughs. Yes, you know it, yes we not bob-off,Hanging with Barbara.Yeah, you know we fine,Yes, it’s Shakespeare redefined.Yes, I meant it, Shakespeare reinventedAll kinds of ways,You know we are not on vaca-tion.G.Q. JAQ: I always loved it. Most notably, their 2015 take on the musical Chicago earned national attention via Most recently, he played Roger in NMSU's production of RENT. 13) How did audience members respond to the Remix? ayLglbgXHCM3-h3HTn2YOr jump to a topic that interests you:1) Preshow and Welcome: Click here.2) What were the team's prior Shakespeare experiences? JAQ: For everyone. JAQ: Yeah, songs like Beastie Boy songs, and old school rap songs. At the time we recorded this podcast, they were back New York with Othello: The Remix. JAQ: It’s usually through, like, a personal connection, but what happens is somebody sees our shows and they say like, you know, “I would love,” because it’s a new form of acting, and it’s also I think what teachers and educators of theater realize is that it reinforces good habits, like it forces you to not take a lot of space to do things and not be feeling yourself enough to take a giant pause here ‘cause there’s no pause to take. WITMORE: GQ and JAQ are the Q Brothers, Gregory and Jeffery Ameen Qaiyum. You have to see it." This page is also useful for other questions. INC (International Négociation Carrelage) est la référence en terme de carrelage 1er choix à prix réduit pour les professionnels et les particuliers. 7) What is "whiteness" and is it insidious? It don’t really suit me,When all I meet is superficial party-going groupies. : 3) How were the female characters treated in the Remix? Othello: The Remix is performed entirely to track and is under 90 minutes at full length. of Errors, among others. What was the original idea or inspiration for your first show, which was The Bomb-itty of Errors? You know, I was at the Experimental Theater Wing at Tisch School of The Arts at NYU, and I was very much inspired by hip-hop and theater at the time, and the initial… it was a final project for me, like an independent project, and the idea was to mix hip-hop and theater with the theme of what it means to be a boy, because I asked three of my guy friends to write it with me, and we were all rapping on the streets in New York, but we were in conservatory training at the same time. WITMORE: From the Folger Shakespeare Library, this is Shakespeare Unlimited. rights for a 3-day run, cool, yes?! I’m Michael Witmore, the Folger’s director. Since 2002, Gregory and Jeffery Ameen Qaiyum, better known as GQ and JAQ— the Q Brothers— have been using hip-hop to adapt and update the plays of William Shakespeare. Their mission is to produce musicals uniting experienced musical theatre Othello: The Remix is great art and an infectiously good time, too, as The Q Brothers reimagine Shakespeare's Othello as a comedy-drama about hip-hop artists. Othello: The Remix Good storytellers borrow, great ones steal. We shared deeply personal experiences of anguish over being treated Othello: The Remix- Chicago Shakespeare Theater- This fresh urban take on Shakespeare's tragedy returns home for a limited engagement on the heels of an acclaimed world premiere at Shakespeare's Globe in London, and wildly successful tours to Germany and Edinburgh. Battle after battle after battle with this crew:I murder mad MCs, but what’s Othello do?He deals the freshman a fresh hand,And he makes him his best man,And lessens my chances by makin’ me Yes Man.“But Cassio’s this!” (What?) It renewed our enthusiasm Welcome to the wonderland of the best games! You see people struggle the same way that we feel the struggle when we go see Shakespeare. while sharing statistics I’d researched on women losing their lives at the hands of learning. ""Josh, Julian, Juan and Mark are attractive and compelling just standing still, but'Othello: The Remix' lets each one show off his skills and versatility as an actor, singer, dancer and rap artist with individual and collective grace, style and energy. John Leguizamo presents the Q Brothers’ 80-minute, exuberant spin on Shakespeare’s tragic tale. Our Othello: The Remix listings offer current tour dates, up-to-date ticket availability and the latest ticket prices. We’ll find out more about his career and about his recent project directing Othello: The Remix at Portland Actors Conservatory where he also works as an instructor. I’m thinking you both came up in Chicago in the ‘70s and improv was huge then. Their mission is to produce musicals uniting experienced musical theatre And then I was just like “Oh, this is great, like there’s all these horrible things, and hilariously sexual things that my teachers would never allow us to say, and they’re teaching them to me, and, like, I don’t think half the class realizes how racy this stuff is,” but I thought that was so ironic and funny that it got me into it, you know? SoundCloud is a music and podcast streaming platform that lets you listen to millions of songs from around the world, or upload your own. For this Covid era, Megan McQueen realized They followed that with Funk It Up About Nothin’ for Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Q Gents with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Rome Sweet Rome at the University of Iowa, and I-Heart-Juliet at Connecticut College. [CLIP of recitative between Othello and Brabantio from Rossini’s Otello], [CLIP from the Q Brothers’ Othello: The Remix, “Never Gonna Stop”:]. It also plays a somewhat significant role in the film's second sequel Cinderella III: A Twist in Time. Tech via her husband Matt Reiter, who grew up in Socorro, is a music educator and on process as much as product. And, you know, do you still only need one good notice in The New York Times to bring out a decent crowd? They were interviewed by Barbara Bogaev. He has since appeared in Conference partners (a recent study from the CDC indicates an average of 3 American women a day We had help from Alana Karpoff and Rachael Singer of the theater management company, Jeffrey Richards Associates; Angie Hamilton Lowe at NPR-West in Culver City, California; and Devin Mellor & Camille Smiley at NPR in New York. I mean how are things different for you now than they were back in 1999 when you first did this? are murdered at the hands of significant others). OTHELLO: THE REMIX played it's final performance January 15, 2017. GQ: And make choices, make acting choices, and turn on a dime, and flesh out deep in the character basically as they would if there were no beat and they were playing a realistic scene in some other play. Candidates usually have about 20 minutes to read the extract, plan and write. But we This podcast is called “Something Then In Rhyme.”. GQ: But we now look back and we were making up our own game shows on a Fisher Price tape recorder, and coming up with characters, so yeah. 8) How do we simultaneously commodify and devalue Blackness? GQ: I had a reading…  I mean they called it a reading disability. BOGAEV: Well I really loved talking with you, and I really wish you a great run. played Nellie Forbush for director Justin Lucero’s South Pacific at UTEP Dinner Theatre. BOGAEV: Right, and then you feel something. 639 were here. Othello: The Remix. I never knew my popsMom was a junkieRaised in the streets with the streetsWith the beats that are funkyConcrete and metalA child of the ghettoLookin’ for the loot,But there was none for Othello. Click here.13) How did audience members respond to the Remix? Scaffolding Theatre's JULY Response to Othello the RemixYou can see all fourteen videos by clicking here:https://www.youtube.com/ Does it continue to rhyme? GQ: And we were improv-ing. annotations in history books of a society that values all humanity. The show is an imaginative reworking of William Shakespeare’s classic play that transforms the protagonist into a […] Click here.7) What is "whiteness" and is it insidious? Whether you’re looking for Othello: The Remix- Chicago Shakespeare Theater- Throw your hands up, Chicago-this this fresh urban take on the Bard's tragedy is back! BOGAEV: Oh, that’s really fascinating. Juan Apodaca, Cassio, Emilia, et al……………………………………Mark Kitanga, DeeJay K.0………………………………………………. )But he don’t jack, ‘cause Cassio can’t rap.He’s a poster child, pin-up boy in a land of popI’m half-man, half-Beastie Boy when I drrrrop.My s*** is John Blaze. BOGAEV: And now you’ve been invited to write shows at a number of colleges, so how did that happen? It’s like a dance. go-getting, shockingly empathetic, wonderfully charming, always enthusiastic, and Othello: The Remix should have shows in Costa Mesa, Milwaukee, North Charleston and … It is a good idea to ignore the time limit until you get closer to the exam. of Nevada Las Vegas. It was edited by Gail Kern Paster and Esther Ferington. Our reference librarians can help you! resonant. In the summer of 2013, my husband Matt and I squeezed in a four-day vacation during Hopefully Othello: The Remix will be performing off again in 2022. 9) What are some resources for Black theatre? also spent many an intense moment delving into the race and gender issues at the center both have worked for years as educators with a range of students from elementary to Though principally the four thrilling men at the center of this project In 2014, after years of professional interaction and deep friendship, Megan McQueen of Las Cruces and Justin Lucero of El Paso founded Scaffolding Theatre Company. Karina OrtegaAbout the Cast JOSH HORTON (Othello, et al) just completed his second of three years in pursuit of an MFA from the University also spent many an intense moment delving into the race and gender issues at the center GQ and JAQ took time out between performances to talk with Barbara Bogaev, and before we hear their talk, here’s a little of the show. Browse our full list of Shakespeare Unlimited episodes. & the Beast and Five Course Love –and a couple musical theater short performances JQ, Postell Pringle, GQ, and Jackson Doran in Othello: The Remix. BOGAEV: And now everyone loves Hamilton, so. BOGAEV: Oh, yeah? In addition to thriving careers teaching and directing Click here.14) What rappers inspired our Remix cast? But we wish you as much laughter and seat-dancing as you see fit during the show. We just sort of feel like, you know, perhaps iambic pentameter was the super hot rhythm of Shakespeare’s day, but it certainly is not any more, and so when we look at the world today, we look at it through a hip-hop lens. delightfully unpredictable. BOGAEV: Can you give us an idea of that? It was a great pleasure. playing in Las Cruces and Albuquerque. a hip-hop adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Othello written, directed and composed by … It is a musical and an opera of sorts, because all scenes are over music and in verse. college levels, they wished to create a company that embraced the concept of life-long We It was previous to actually translating it where I felt like Shakespeare was music. They endured my breaking into tears on process as much as product. And, you know, it was like, it’s something in hip-hop, you’re like, “Oh yeah, that’s my boy, that’s my boy,” or like, “Are you and your boys going to be there?” And it just kind of like struck me as like, “What does that really mean, and how are we now not boys, and how are we still boys like when we were ten years old and playing on a playground, and why gangs form,” you know? GQ: A version of The Comedy of Errors done, but with four people, and we started translating the first stanza, and it just— it was an aha moment. TOXIC MASCULINITY. Megan McQueen has a special connection to Socorro and New Mexico 639 were here. That’s— the best rappers we grew up to, were master storytellers who used poetry and musical language. NOTE from NMTPAS  We have presented two excellent Scaffolding Theater Company Productions in Socorro--Beauty As Their first show, The Bomb-itty of Errors, ran for months off-Broadway. I still enjoy perma-grin watching In July,  Megan This fresh take is lyrically rewritten over original beats by The Q Brothers—America’s leading re-interpreters of Shakespeare through hip-hop. THE Q BROTHERS' OTHELLO: THE REMIX  is an 80-minute rap and hip-hop spin on the bard's tragic tale of love and jealousy. After years performing His impressive achievements range from producing and performing in another of the [LAUGH]. CAST Othello, et al……………………………………………..Josh Horton Iago, Brabantio, et al…………………………………Julian Alexander Roderigo, Bianca, Loco Vito, et al……………. GREGORY QAIYUM (GQ): The whole thing is in rhyme and the whole thing has music, so it’s much more of an opera than it is a traditional musical. booked tickets on a whim to one of the only shows we could find on those odd dates; JAQ: Yeah, so it’s just in 4/4 rhythm. Check it:Three of the hottest hip-hop producers in townTold him my album should drop next and that I should throw down.Now I know what I should be.I know what I’m worth,But Othello just ignores me and says “Cassio’s first.”Yo! the regional premiere of Passion in Pennsylvania (a role reprised for Scaffolding), You recognized the A, A, B, A, or whatever the rhyming couplets as music? partners (a recent study from the CDC indicates an average of 3 American women a day Shakespeare Theater and Richard Jordan Productions. MICHAEL WITMORE: Shakespeare told stories with poetry. It renewed our enthusiasm Oh, I get it, like wherefore means why,” and then I’d just substitute in my head and I’d just fly through this, and it was fun. April 12. Become a teacher member to get access to lesson plans and professional development. BOGAEV: And do we ever, though, hear any of Shakespeare’s actual lines or poetry in your shows? We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. You can find more about the Folger at our website, folger.edu. “And Cassio’s that!” (What? Well actually, J did some theater early. JAQ: So no, my…  I mean my perception of it immediately was like, “Oh, this is a code and I can crack it. The Story Shakespeare’s story of Othello is remixed into a fresh urban take on the Bard’s tragedy, spun out and lyrically rewritten over original beats. Since 2002, Gregory and Jeffery Ameen Qaiyum, better known as GQ and JAQ – the Q Brothers – have been using hip-hop to adapt and update the plays of William Shakespeare. I have to…”  It takes me that amount of time to get into the rhythm of the language and to feel like I understand it, and I can imagine in your show it’s a little bit like that, too. She previously Did you rap together as kids too? who we envy, and who we sabotage and why. And so we would spend, like, hours doing exercises on like two lines of material, spending two hours with that, starting on the ground after doing some crazy physical thing where your body and your blood is pumping. While earning a theatre arts degree at NMSU, he performed JAQ: Well, we were doing all these voices, and like looking back like we like had characters and improv-ing. JAQ: Yeah, it was more like ‘80s. Oh, my god. We’re totally for hip-hop growing on every single level, and so, like, one awesome thing that we can point to that Hamilton and Lin-Manuel has done for our work is that people now have less of a preconceived notion, something they can let go of. You only went with Shakespeare because you ran out of time on another concept, right? Festival (2016). at NMSU. GQ: It was from doing it, it was from doing it. Chicago Shakespeare was presenting a rap adaptation of Othello. wish you as much laughter and seat-dancing as you see fit during the show. With a script written by the brothers and composed entirely of rhyming couplets, the cast bring out their own particular interpretations of the play in this unique ‘ad-RAP-tation’ […] And over the course of two hours, you get to actually vocalize those lines, and you find out that certain vowel sounds that he used evoke certain emotions, certain consonants inform, you know, how evil a character is or not. have been ridiculously fun and silly for hours on end (“fox key, fox key”), we have Upstairs at Chicago Shakespeare. 11) How do we move forward with hope in the theatre? Othello the Remix was commissioned for The Globe to Globe Festival by Shakespeare’s Globe, Chicago I was just fascinated with that, so…, GQ: But then two weeks deep out of a five-week process we only had two pages of anything, so we were like, you know, my boys were like, “it’s a cool idea and all, bro, but we need something to perform, so we should adapt something,” and then we started throwing around like, Kafka. The following is a list of Nintendo's franchises. At the Westside Theatre in New York City, audiences are watching "Othello: the Remix," a retelling of William Shakespeare's classic play that transforms the protagonist into a rising hip-hop star. JAQ: That’s a really good point. [CLIP (continued) from The Bomb-itty of Errors:]. “Something Then In Rhyme” was produced by Richard Paul. Now MC E had never been good choosing names,So without much thought, he named two pairs the same.One he named Antipholus, the other Dromio.The next he named Antipholus, and then another Dromio.The next few years, times were very rough.When it came down to money, he never had enough.Four times as many cradles and four pacifiers,Four times as many bottles and mouths and dirty diapers... BOGAEV: And when you say that Shakespeare uses music to tell a story, do you mean you recognized as you were doing those line-by-line translations in college that these were musical forms?