The Soliloquy Project

Artistic Director Karen Lee Pickett, Shakespeare scholar Dr. Erin Kelly, and Sheila Landahl, co-author of CONSTANCE, chat about Constance’s soliloquy featured in Season Three, Episode 5.

You can listen to this educational deep dive either in preparation for your soliloquy adventure, or afterwards, as a thought provoking addendum to the performance in Season Three, Episode 5!

To donate to the Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival, please visit www.vicshakespeare.com/donate

Sound design and theme song by Taylor Lewis

Thank you to the CRD for their continued and deeply valued support of the Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival.

In this episode, Sheila Landahl performs Constance’s speech, from Act 3, Scene 4 of King John.

Season Three of The Soliloquy Project features the soliloquys of Shakespeare's forgotten women, and spotlights the widows and scorned women who are oft left out of canonical reviews. What can we learn from these forgotten characters? Listen to Season 3, Episode 6 to find out.

To donate to the Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival, please visit www.vicshakespeare.com/donate.

Sound design and theme song by Taylor Lewis.

Thank you to the CRD for their continued and deeply valued support of the Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival.

Artistic Director Karen Lee Pickett and Shakespeare scholar Dr. Erin Kelly chat about Katherine’s soliloquy featured in Season Three, Episode 3.

You can listen to this educational deep dive either in preparation for your soliloquy adventure, or afterwards, as a thought provoking addendum to the performance in Season Three, Episode 3!

To donate to the Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival, please visit www.vicshakespeare.com/donate

Sound design and theme song by Taylor Lewis

Thank you to the CRD for their continued and deeply valued support of the Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival.

In this episode, Ariel Slack performs Katherine’s speech, from Act 2, Scene 4 of Henry VIII.

Season Three of The Soliloquy Project features the soliloquys of Shakespeare's forgotten women, and spotlights the widows and scorned women who are oft left out of canonical reviews. What can we learn from these forgotten characters? Listen to Season 3, Episode 4 to find out.

To donate to the Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival, please visit www.vicshakespeare.com/donate.

Sound design and theme song by Taylor Lewis.

Thank you to the CRD for their continued and deeply valued support of the Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival.

Artistic Director Karen Lee Pickett and Shakespeare scholar Dr. Erin Kelly chat about the soliloquy featured in Season Three, Episode One. What is the significance of the countess's speech? How does it fit into the folktale of All's Well That Ends Well?

You can listen to this educational deep dive either in preparation for your soliloquy adventure, or afterwards, as a thought provoking addendum to the performance in Season Three, Episode One!

To donate to the Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival, please visit www.vicshakespeare.com/donate

Sound design and theme song by Taylor Lewis

Thank you to the CRD for their continued and deeply valued support of the Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival.

In this episode, Karen Lee Pickett performs the Countess’s speech, from Act 1, Scene 3, of All’s Well That Ends Well.

Season Three of The Soliloquy Project features the soliloquys of Shakespeare's forgotten women, and spotlights the widows and scorned women who are oft left out of canonical reviews.

What can we learn from these forgotten characters? Listen to Season 3, Episode 2 to find out.

To donate to the Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival, please visit www.vicshakespeare.com/donate.

Sound design and theme song by Taylor Lewis.

Thank you to the CRD for their continued and deeply valued support of the Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival.

In our season finale, Artistic Director Karen Lee Pickett and Shakespeare scholar Dr. Erin Kelly unpack the invention of the sonnet, and Phebe’s purpose in As You Like It .

You can listen to this educational deep dive either in preparation for your outdoor soliloquy adventure, or afterwards, as a thought provoking addendum to the performance in Season Two, Episode Nine!

To donate to the Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival, please visit www.vicshakespeare.com/donate

Sound design and theme song by Taylor Lewis

Thank you to the CRD for their continued and deeply valued support of the Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival.

Season Two features soliloquies exclusively from Shakespeare's As You Like It.

In Episode 9, Danica Charlie performs Phebe's “I would not be thy executioner”; a soliloquy from Act Three, Scene Five.

To listen on location, make your way to Kosapsom Park at the beginning of the Gorge Waterway walking path, at the intersection of Admirals Road and Gorge Road. (The Number 11 bus route will take you here. If driving, you will find a small parking lot at Kosapsum Park off of Gorge Road). Find a large brick circle in the pavement, and position yourself in the middle of it. As you listen, walk slowly from the center of this circle, down the Gorge Waterway path. Notice the garden areas to your left, and the expanse of water to your right. If you like, step onto the grassy area to your left (before the white chain fence begins), and look out over the waterway.

To donate to the Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival, please visit www.vicshakespeare.com/donate.

Don't forget to listen to Season Two, Episode 10 to learn more about this soliloquy!

Sound design and theme song by Taylor Lewis.

Thank you to the CRD for their continued and deeply valued support of the Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival.

Artistic Director Karen Lee Pickett and Shakespeare scholar Dr. Erin Kelly chat about the concept of ‘love melancholy’ and the malady of love in Rosalind’s speech to Orlando.

You can listen to this educational deep dive either in preparation for your outdoor soliloquy adventure, or afterwards, as a thought provoking addendum to the performance in Season Two, Episode Seven.

To donate to the Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival, please visit www.vicshakespeare.com/donate

Sound design and theme song by Taylor Lewis.

Thank you to the CRD for their continued and deeply valued support of the Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival.

Season Two features soliloquies exclusively from Shakespeare's As You Like It. In Episode 7, Nathaniel Exley performs Rosalind's “There is none of my uncle’s marks upon you”; a soliloquy from Act Three, Scene Two.

To listen on location, turn on to Rock Street from Quadra and follow the signs leading you to Playfair Park. If walking, you'll reach the park is less than five minutes. Playfair Park is a protected ecosystem, and is home to a rare Garry Oak meadow and hundreds of mature azaleas and rhododendrons located in Saanich. From the parking lot, follow the path toward the children's playground. A few steps beyond the playground, you'll come to two memorial benches tucked in on your right. Take a seat. In front of you now are the oak trees and, on a clear day, you can see the hills beyond.

To donate to the Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival, please visit www.vicshakespeare.com/donate.

Don't forget to listen to Season Two, Episode 8 to learn more about this soliloquy!

Sound design and theme song by Taylor Lewis.

Thank you to the CRD for their continued and deeply valued support of the Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival.