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- "What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"A Player King: Episode 9 "What wound did ever heal but by degrees?" Hamlet gets redeemed, the usurpers receive some just desserts, and Tom receives some life-affirming training from Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts.
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37 min - "But this rough magic I here abjure"A Player King: Episode 10: "But this Rough Magic I Here Abjure." Shakespeare Orange County reaches new heights and professional landmarks, finds peace in restoration and returns to the Festival Amphitheatre in a kind of homecoming, and after 40 years of creating and making theatrical magic, Tom retires.
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40 min - "Sound and Fury"A Player King: Episode 8 "Sound and Fury." Reeling from the aftermath of a forced resignation, Tom finds new opportunity at Chapman University and forms Shakespeare Orange County with Michael and four other Grove Shakespeare actors.
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26 min - "Let slip the dogs of war"A Player King: Episode 7 "Let Slip the Dogs of War." Stories of Hamlet during the 1984 Olympics, an epic Merchant of Venice, and betrayal most foul.
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33 min - "O for a muse of fire"A Player King: Episode five: "O for a muse of fire!" The Gem Theatre is launched, the Grove Shakespeare Festival is conceived, a first ammendment crisis, and life-long colleagues are met and made.
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36 min - "This scepter'd isle"A Player King: Episode Six: "This Scepter'd Isle." The dream of a Shakespeare Festival takes off, and gains some great momentum.
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33 min - "Blow winds and crack your cheeks"A Player King: Episode four: "Blow Winds and Crack your cheeks" Tom learns some vital lessons about producing and creating theatre in rough conditions, heals some old wounds playing King Lear, and ends up starting a brand new theatre company in Garden Grove, California.
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27 min - "Be patient for the world is broad and wide"A Player King: Episode three. "Be Patient for the World is Broad and Wide." Tom begins teaching high school after graduation, performing in political and experimental theatre to protest the Vietnam War, and the foundation of the Hollywood Theatre Ensemble that launched many artists' careers.
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31 min - "I bear a charmed life"A Player King: Episode two. "I bear a charmed life." In episode two, high school drama programs, the power of ensemble, and devastating college theatre reviews.
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28 min - "So shines a good deed in a naughty world"In this first epsiode, Tom and Michael talk about their childhoods, seeing their first play, and learn some new things about each other after 50 years of friendship.
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About A Player King
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A Producer, Director, and Actor of Shakespeare in Southern California for over 40 years, Tom Bradac's artistic career was spent creating and producing professional theatre locally, nationally and…
internationally. Thomas F. Bradac, as he is professionally known, was the founding artistic director of the Grove Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare Orange County, a founding member of the now international professional organization Shakespeare Theatre Association, and a professor of acting Shakespeare and directing at Chapman University for over three decades. This podcast, recorded over two days, is an imperfect oral history and auobiographical account of Thomas F. Bradac's professional career with his colleague, artistic partner, and friend, Michael Nehring; it captures a period of American theatre from the late 1960s to 2013, and a career dedicated to the works of William Shakespeare. We've cut around some of Tom and Michael's shorthand and tangential paths of thought. Sometimes there are word fumbles, sometimes the transitions of conversation are abrupt- it is, much like theatre itself, imperfect, yet through its imperfection is honest and real. Welcome, and thank you for listening to A Player King.
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