Shakespeare Republic: #AllTheWebsAStage

Shakespeare Republic: #AllTheWebsAStage (The Lockdown Chronicles)

Filmed in lockdown during the global pandemic of 2020 …
Twenty four souls, six cities – one shared experience of being human.

This project is the new season from the Shakespeare Republic series (2015-2017) made during lockdowns around the world in response to the events of 2020

SHAKESPEARE REPUBLIC: #ALLTHEWEBSASTAGE (THE LOCKDOWN CHRONICLES) TRAILER

All Episodes

MIGUEL PEREZ as “THE CHORUS” from HENRY V
(LOS ANGELES, USA)

PHOEBE ANNE TAYLOR as “LAUNCE” from THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA
(MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA)

MARK DICKINSON as “CLARENCE” from RICHARD III
(MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA)

LAURA GARDNER as “CONSTANCE” from KING JOHN
(LOS ANGELES, USA)

LEO ATKIN as ‘PUCK” from A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
(LONDON, UK)

MAYA COHEN as “ADRIANA” from THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
(MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA)

JUSTIN HOSKING as “RICHARD III” from RICHARD III
(MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA)

YOLANDA OVIDE as “JULIET” from ROMEO & JULIET
(LONDON, UK)

FRANK COLLISON as “PROSPERO” from THE TEMPEST
(LOS ANGELES, USA)

JODI HAIGH as “DUKE SENIOR” from AS YOU LIKE IT
(MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA)

CARIS VUJCEC as “LADY MACBETH” from MACBETH
(NEW YORK, USA)

DOMINIC BREWER as “RICHARD II” from RICHARD II
(LONDON, UK)

TIM CONSTANTINE as “HAMLET” from HAMLET
(LONDON, UK)

DANIELLE FARROW as “HENRY IV” from HENRY IV, PART II
(EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND)

CHRISTOPHER KIRBY as “RICHARD II” from RICHARD II
(MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA)

EMMA KNIEBE as “LADY PERCY” from HENRY IV, PART I
(LONDON, UK)

MARK McMINN as “PRINCE HENRY” from HENRY IV, PART I
(GLASGOW, SCOTLAND)

PHILIP HAYDEN as “HENRY IV” from HENRY IV, PART II
(MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA)

SARAH PEACHEY as “TITANIA” from A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
(GLASGOW, SCOTLAND)

ROBERT MYLES as “MACBETH” from MACBETH
(GLASGOW, SCOTLAND)

JESSICA MARTIN as “ROSALIND” from AS YOU LIKE IT
(MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA)

SASS PINCI as “MARK ANTONY” from JULIUS CAESAR
(MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA)

DON BRIDGES as “CORIN” from AS YOU LIKE IT
(MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA)

SALLY McLEAN as “MACBETH” from MACBETH
(MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA)

General content warning: this series contains discussion of isolation, death, illness and/or mental health.

For those in need of support at this, or at any time, please reach out to your official national helpline.
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Shakespeare Republic: #AllTheWorldsAStage (The Lockdown Chronicles)
Edited By Sally McLean
Online Edit & Colour Grading By Thanassi Panagiotaras
Sound Design & Editing By Tim McCormick
Technical Advisor: Shaun Herbertson
Co-Produced By Billy Smedley, Christopher Kirby & Phoebe Anne Taylor
Original Title & Credits Music Composed & Performed By Sass & The Bazaar
Adapted by Sally McLean from the works of William Shakespeare
Produced & Directed by Sally McLean

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What is Shakespeare Republic: #AllTheWebsAStage (The Lockdown Chronicles) about?

Using Shakespeare’s original text and characters, we shine a light on the human experience in a COVID-19 world. Building on the success of the previous two seasons of the multi award-winning web series, Shakespeare Republic (2015-2017), this new season of the work turns the lens on Shakespeare’s characters in lockdown, featuring actors from Australia and around the world.

Created, adapted and directed by Australian actor, Sally McLean, with the cast filming themselves in isolation, directed in real time by Sally via Zoom from Melbourne, we look through a myriad of windows from Australia, Scotland, England and the USA into the current shared experience of human beings in isolation.

Reflecting a plethora of experiences in lockdown, including mental health issues, death of a loved one, Zoom dating and more, we train a lens on the shared human experience that connects us, despite our physical separation – using Shakespeare’s characters and original text.

Featuring actors with credits from Broadway, the West End, Shakespeare’s Globe London and mainstream Film & TV in Australia, the US & UK, both established and emerging, this is deliberately Shakespeare with a difference.

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What the critics have said about our work

Check out all the awesome feedback on the Shakespeare Republic series that we’ve received to date here.

… polished, beautifully made series from director/producer Sally McLean … a fine use of the platform and, more importantly, a very fine adaptation of the Bard … Shakespeare Republic is put together with grace and wit. An assortment of actors do terrific work making the (non-dumbed down) dialogue accessible, prying it open with great care and skill.

THE GUARDIAN

… taking the world by storm, done in an inventive, captivating way … the entire series is astonishingly smart.

STAREABLE

Each episode is a perfect gem, beautifully presented and so very relevant to our current times. Each actor unfolds their story, using Shakespeare’s original words, with such skill and talent. Kudos to Director, Sally McLean, and her entire team & ensemble. From heart-breaking to hilarious and so powerful. Highly recommended viewing.

IMDB

… beautifully produced soliloquies from Shakespeare’s most famous characters, interpreted by a wide range of talented actors.

SHAKESPEARE TWENTYSCORE

If you haven’t seen the #AllTheWebsAStage series I can’t recommend it highly enough. Smart, poignant and brilliantly crafted in lockdown by Sally McLean and a fantastic cast and crew. Brilliant short films of Shax (sic) speeches exquisitely shot in black and white – little slices of cinema that capture the mood of 2020 perfectly … they really are like Shakespearean Pringles: once I press play, I just can’t stop!

Benjamin Broadribb

Editor, 'Action is eloquence': (Re)thinking Shakespeare

Critics just adore Shakespeare Republic: #LoveTheBard, calling it an incredibly clever and highly addictive, beautifully made, sophisticated twenty-first-century series – and we couldn’t say better. Director Sally McLean has managed to put screen adaptations of Shakespeare back on the map.

REALIST WEBFEST

Adapted beautifully for COVID, with a case full of trophies to prove it.

ABC RADIO 774

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“What news?”

“None my Lord, but that the world’s grown honest.”

William Shakespeare, Hamlet (Act II, Sc 2)

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The Lockdown Chronicles