That splendid arcadian Shakespearean reliquary, Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum, is
presenting four of the Bard’s dramas – Parts 1, 2 and 3 of Henry VI plus Richard III –
compressed, compiled and edited into a single two-act play, Queen Margaret’s Version of
Shakespeare’s War of the Roses, directed by Ellen Geer. A Shakespearean scholar and
playwright, Ms. Geer also stitched together this quartet of history plays by the “Prince of
Poets” for WGTB, which the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust awarded a commemorative
plaque with wood from Shakespeare’s Stratford-upon-Avon Garden in 2014.
Ms. Geer, who is also WGTB’s Producing Artistic Director, has given the Richard III
and the Henry VI works a decidedly feminist twist, as the tale is told from the women’s
point of view, just as composer André Previn and playwright Tom Stoppard respun
Homer’s Odyssey, by retelling that epic from the point of view of Ulysses’ wife, the
titular Penelope (see: https://hollywoodprogressive.com/music/evening-with-renee-

In March, the South Africa Communist Party (SACP) denounced what it described as the ‘imperialist bias' of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Sunday, July 9, 12noon
We are back with the second season of OTE Art Walk Sunday's in Olde Towne East! Visit 700bryden.com/ote-art-walk

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Sunday, Oct 15th 2023
Sunday, Nov 12th 2023

The OTE Art Walk is a monthly neighborhood event established by the creative community in collaboration with 700 Bryden. Each month our festival day takes place along Parsons Ave in Olde Towne East.

Join us this year for an EXPANDED Art Walk experience featuring food and drink, Land Grant beer, live music and live art, performances, 60+ local vendors, local businesses, food trucks, shopping & more!

If you are a fan of plays featuring and exploring bravura acting, Hollywood history, LGBTQIA issues, creative stagecraft, feminism, anti-Semitism, one-person shows, illustrator Aubrey Beardsley and more, strap on those running shoes and dash, do not walk, to experience Garden of Alla: The Alla Nazimova Story, which is currently having a limited engagement at Theatre West. Romy Nordlinger depicts the eponymous legendary stage and screen thespian Alla Nazimova in this one-woman piece de resistance which the New York actress also wrote. In doing so, a theater and movie myth (and nymph) lives again in an 80-or-so minute show that imaginatively uses rear screen projections to tell the tale of Alla and her legendary mansion  precariously perched in Tinseltown, once upon a time.