Special Guests:

Sara Kannen Dean--Artistic Director of the Pear Theater, and director of The Importance of Being Earnest.

Alycia Adame--plays Cecily Cardew in The Importance of Being Earnest.

Annalisa Tkacheff--plays Gwendolen Fairfax in The Importance of Being Earnest

Drew Benjamin Jones--plays Algernon Montcrieff in The Importance of Being Earnest

Kyle Dayrit--Plays Jack Worthing in The Importance of Being Earnest

This episode is an interview with Kunal Prasad, director of this summer's South Asian inspired Much Ado About Nothing!!

This week we interview Tom Gough, the director of SVS' free Shakespeare in the Park play, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, done in a totally awesome 1980's time warp! Find out more about Tom, Two Gents, the 80s and find out the answer to the most important question of all---Joan Jett or Pat Benetar?

Guest performers:

James Lucas

Video Performers:

Christian Pizziarani--Narrator

Amanda Le Nguyen--Amanda

Dan C.--Dan

Guest performers:

James Lucas

Tonya Mara

Paul Pinza

Taking a look at The Two Gentlemen of Verona through the lens of some of your favorite 80s movies! Be sure to see Two Gents this summer for FREE at Willow Street Park in San Jose, directed by Tom Gough. Go to www.svshakespeare.org for more information!

Guest voices:

James Lucas

Tonya Mara

Paul Pinza

Guest cast:

Hero--Angie Higgins

Claudio--Bryan Freeman

Leonato/Benedick--James Lucas

Don Pedro--Tom Shamrell

Don John,/Friar Francis/Beatrice/Queen Elizabeth--Doll Piccotto

Let's take a look at SVS' upcoming season--Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Importance of Being Earnest, and Much Ado About Nothing through the lens of Reddit's AITA!

Special Guest actor: James Lucas

Was Dickens a real life Ebenezer Scrooge? Well, listen in and find out. It's always a little disappointing when we discover that our literary heroes weren't as heroic as we hoped. So how do we process that with the King of Christmas himself?

Actors:

Charles Dickens--James Lucas

"An Arbor Day Carol" cast:

Voice 1: Doll Piccotto

Voice 2: James Lucas

Scrooge: James Lucas

Bob Cratchit: Doll Piccotto

Tree Boy: Doll Piccotto

Katelyn Miller--Mercutio from Romeo & Juliet

Doll Piccotto--Marc Antony from Julius Caesar

Sydney Harmon & Melissa Brown--Iachimo & Posthumus from Cymbeline

Pat Tyler--Hamlet from Hamlet

Bryan Freeman--The Gaeler's Daughter from Two Noble Kinsman

James Lucas--Titania from A Midsummer Night's Dream