Festival Dramaturg Kee-Yoon Nahm speaks with Associate Artistic Director Robert Quinlan about his upcoming production of William Shakespeare’s King Lear at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival (ISF).
Unit: Beyond the Stage
Beyond the Stage: Wherefore base?
Festival Dramaturg Kee-Yoon Nahm discusses the plight of illegitimate children in Shakespeare’s plays, focusing on Edmund in “King Lear.”
Beyond the Stage: Shakespeare’s good friars
Festival Dramaturg Kee-Yoon Nahm writes about Shakespeare’s use of friars as characters in his plays.
Beyond the Stage Interview: Different and also the same
Festival Dramaturg Kee-Yoon Nahm speaks with director Lisa Gaye Dixon about the upcoming production of Much Ado about Nothing at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival (ISF).
Beyond the Stage Interview: Building the contract with the audience
Festival Dramaturg Kee-Yoon Nahm spoke with director Bill Jenkins about the upcoming production of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival (ISF).
Beyond the Stage: The Complete Shakespeare
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), which will open the Illinois Shakespeare Festival’s 2022 season, attempts to present all of the Bard’s plays in a single evening. Exactly how many plays did Shakespeare write?
Beyond the Stage: On nothing
This article explores the theme of “nothingness” across the two Shakespeare plays in ISF’s 2022 season: “Much Ado about Nothing” and “King Lear.”
Beyond the Stage Interview: A rhythm to the way we work
Festival Dramaturg Kee-Yoon Nahm spoke with playwright Nancy Steele Brokaw and director Lori Adams about Illinois Shakespeare Festival’s upcoming Theatre for Young Audiences show “A Summer’s Winter Tale.”
Beyond the Stage Interview: An Act of Faith
Festival Dramaturg Kee-Yoon Nahm spoke with director Rebekah Scallet about the upcoming production of William Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale” at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival.
Beyond the Stage: The Bear Necessities
The Winter’s Tale contains many memorable elements that make it unique among Shakespeare’s plays: an oracle that proves a character’s innocence, a sheepshearing festival, and, of course, Hermione’s statue that comes to life. It also has wonderful monologues that actors often use in auditions. But the most famous line in the play is perhaps a little stage direction in the third act.