26 - Merth Shore Mews - Friday. January 28. 2000

Project relie

Layne Ghristensen

News Reporter
lchristensen@nsnews.com

HOLLYWOOD is having a love
affair with The Bard.

Ben Aftleck, Gwyneth Paltrow and Calista
Flockhart donned Shakespearean roles last
year, Paltrow picking up an Oscar for her star
turn in Shakespeare in Love.

Alicia Silverstone is set to star in Kenneth
Brannagh’s production of Love’s Labuur’s Last,
to be released in Europe this spring. Hamlet
is set for yet another remake, this version to
star Ethan Hawke in the title role, supported
by Kyle MacLachlan, Sam Shepard, Biil
Murray, Casey Affleck and an as- yer-unknown
Julia Stiles as the wagic Ophelia. Anthony
Hopkins has just hit the cinemas in che ude
role of Titus, based on Shakespeare’s little
performed bloodbath Titus Andronicus.

Four hundred years after he penned his
first play, Shakespeare is a hit on the big
screen. What's the attraction? Vancouver actor
and director John Juliani says it has to do
with Shakespeare's gift at telling a great story.

“He was a little ahead of his time,” says
the Horseshoe Bay resident. “He may have
anticipated the whole cinematic style because
he writes in a way that structurally lends itself
ta film. His works are varied and complete.
There’s Jaughing and crying... once you get

ast the language, you find that he's time-
ess.”

Juliant, his wife Donna Wong: Juhani and
their production company Savage God have
mounted The Shakespeare Project. The epic
venture is a series of staged dramatic readings
of the complete works of Shakespeare. The
venue ts Christ Church Cathedral, with the
first event, a reading of Romeo and Juliet, wk-
ing place this weekend.

Audiences shouldn't expect an elaborate
production of the classic love story. Savage
God doesn’t have a blockbuster budget. This
is Shakespeare unplugged. No sets. No cos-
tumes. Just the spoken word and the actors’
ability to bring Shakespeare's writing off the
page and into the audience's imagination, says
Juliani, who hopes to involve abour 100
actors in the project.

Son Alessandra Juliani is Romeo vo Javne
Paterson’s Juliet, with popular West Van actor
Gillian Barber as Lady Capulet in this week-
end’s production.

Applause Theatre Books of New York has
donated the first folio Shakespearean text edi-
tiens thar acters will use for the performances.
The texts are annotated by UBC professor
and North Shore resident Neil Freeman and
are the closest reference to Shakespeare's orig-
inal scripts. Forty events — one for each of
Shakespeare's 37 plays and three for his son-
nets — are planned over a two-year span.

A passport for a reserved seat at all 40
events is $300. Tickets (festival seating) are
$10 ac the door. For more information, call
the Shakespeare Project hotline at 921-7144.

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WEST Van's John Jullani, artistic director of Savage God, launches The
Shakespeare Project Saturday and Sunday at Christ Church Cathedral.

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