In 2016, which was the four-hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, I toured venues in South-East Australia with the Shakespeare-themed show A Strange Eventful History. The show was conceived by me jointly with Antony Pitts, Director of Australia’s leading professional choral ensemble, The Song Company. My role was to write and perform a narrative text to accompany Shakespearean texts delivered by me alongside music performed by the Song Company. The tour and the text provided opportunities to implement and publicise ideas about rhetorical performance developed in the preceding decade in rhetoric workshops I had led for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Those ideas culminated in my monograph study Shakespeare’s Acts of Will: Law, Testament, and Properties of Performance that was published in 2016, the year of the tour, by Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare. In the course of the tour I gave a number of press interviews and radio interviews, including as the featured guest on Margaret Throsby’s Midday programme, Australia’s equivalent of Desert Island Disks (ABC radio, 21/6/16, 45 minutes).
Other Shakespeare performances include:
- Frome Festival 2019 (Fakespeare: The Great Shakespeare Forgery) One-man show
- Verona, As You Law It (Conference performance with violinist Francesca Lorenzetti)
