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Theater preview: New World Shakespeare’s “An Evening with Shakespeare”
Director David Sessions presents an evening of scenes with an understanding of how the Bard can be intimidating.
For many, the plays of William Shakespeare can retain an intimidating inaccessibility, perhaps from lingering trauma of the way they were taught in school. For David Sessions—who directs a current local showcase of Shakespeare scenes—that trauma never had a chance to develop, thanks to his own childhood experience.
“We didn’t read Shakespeare,” Sessions recalls. “I don’t ever remember reading a Shakespeare play in my entire time of [going to school].” Sessions—a veteran actor, theater director and acting teacher in Los Angeles who recently relocated to Utah—grew up in Berkeley, Calif.
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