A Teenager's Take on Shakespeare

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 2 of A Teenager’s Take on Shakespeare! Today's guest is Emily Carding. In this episode, they talk with host Annabelle Higgins about a brilliantly outspoken woman who can talk a king down to earth again, a Danish prince caught up in his mortal coil and a man who stops at nothing to ascend to power, killing and clearing the way until his conscience pricks him too late. E...

Welcome to Season 2 of A Teenager’s Take on Shakespeare! Today's fabulous guest is Stephanie Crugnola. In this episode, she and host Annabelle Higgins chat princely rogues, witty women and morally grey conspirators, with dashes of Love’s Labour (Lost and Won). I hope you enjoyed Season 1, with all its fascinating insights. This season is called Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays, taking its title f...

Welcome to the very first Monologue Roundup of A Teenager's Take on Shakespeare! At the end of every season, there's going to be a special little episode dubbed the Monologue Roundup. Each guest will provide a monologue along the theme of the episode, and present their choice.  To mark the end of this season, host Annabelle Higgins asked guests Elizabeth Dennehy, Fenna Capelle, Eleanor Wilkinson,...

Welcome to the final episode of Season 1, Why We Love Shakespeare! In this episode, I, host Annabelle Higgins, chat with Austin Tichenor about Shakespeare on stage vs page, academia vs performance and the wonders of bio-fiction. Austin Tichenor  is an actor, playwright, and co-Artistic Director of the  Reduced Shakespeare Company , for which he’s co-authored and co-directed ten stage com...

Hello, listeners! This is your host, Annabelle Higgins, and welcome to this episode of A Teenager’s Take on Shakespeare! Today my guest is Harry Fitzpatrick. In this episode, I talk with Harry about immersive Shakespeare, the biggest roles in the canon, audience relationships and growing through the creative process. Harry is an actor, director and producer based in both Essex, England and Valenci...

Hello, listeners! This is your host, Annabelle Higgins, and welcome to this episode of A Teenager’s Take on Shakespeare! Today my wonderful guest is Jacqueline Youm. In this episode, Jackie and I discuss Shakespeare's poetic quality, the emotional evocation of his language, the issue of typecasting, Hamlet without Hamlet and much, much more! Jacqueline Youm is a Senegalese American actor, lawyer,...

Hello, listeners! This is your host, Annabelle Higgins, and welcome to this episode of A Teenager’s Take on Shakespeare!  Today my wonderful guest is Eleanor Wilkinson. In this episode, I, host Annabelle Higgins, talk with performer, fashionista and wonderful person Eleanor Wilkinson about Shakespeare on stage vs in the classroom, dealing with the problematic plays, and finding community thro...

Welcome to episode 2 of A Teenager's Take on Shakespeare! In this episode, I, host Annabelle Higgins, talk Shakespeare with my best friend, accomplished poet and budding academic Fenna Capelle about finding the humanity in Shakespeare's texts, empathising with his works and being young people fascinated by the Bard.  Fenna Capelle is a 20 year old student of literature, linguistics, rhetoric and a...

Welcome to episode 1 of A Teenager's Take on Shakespeare! In today's episode, I, host Annabelle Higgins, chat with Elizabeth Dennehy on getting into Shakespeare, transforming the text through performance, and some of the best productions she's seen of his works.  Elizabeth lives in Los Angeles with her husband, actor James Lancaster. She is an actor, currently filming Horizon, written, directed by...

Welcome, one and all, to A Teenager's Take on Shakespeare; a brand new podcast where host Annabelle Higgins will be discussing different aspects of the wonderful world of the Bard with some incredible guests, and then provide a Teenager's Take on every conversation.  Approaching Shakespeare can seem daunting, given the massive hype and excitement that his name produces among actors, English t...