East 15 students reach Alaska!
Students in the final year on their BA Acting degree have taken part in a live web read of Shakespeare's All's Well That End's Well with Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre, Alaska.
Transmission date was Wednesday 24th January at 6pm GMT as part of the annual Bard-A-Thon festival, directed by Graham Watts.
Bard-A-Thon is a week-long read of Shakespeare's works and takes place in Fairbanks, Alaska, the farthest north place on earth that Shakespeare is performed. Fairbanks has the most extreme spectrum of temperatures in the world; in the summer there is 24/7 daylight and temperatures often hit 90 degrees and above. The winters are cold and harsh, with constant darkness and temperatures regularly reaching to 40 degrees and below.
Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre is one of the USA's most remarkable theatre companies and was one of very few recipients of a prestigious "Shakespeare In America" grant which enabled it to tour to native communities far out in the Baring Sea. This past summer Graham Watts' production of Henry V was one of only two productions invited to perform at the World Shakespeare Congress in Brisbane, Australia. The company frequently tours across the vast spaces of the state of Alaska (which accounts for one third of total USA territory) and has visited the Edinburgh Festival on two occasions, as well as touring to Canada and New York City.
Graham Watts said: 'I have long felt that the students at East 15 are the most talented I have encountered in my professional life. I am enormously proud to showcase these talents of "the best of British" to friends and colleagues in the United States and all around the world via the Web.'
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