Louisa At Fruitlands

Reduced Shakespeare Company founder Daniel Rover Singer returns to talk about his new play Louisa At Fruitlands, about the intersection of Louisa May Alcott, the author of Little Women, when she was a little ten-year-old herself, and the Fruitlands transcendentalist community. Daniel talks about the origins of the RSC and how the landmark work The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) burst the bonds of "the perfect context" of the Northern California Renaissance Faire; how he balances creativity and commercialism; the perils of illegal beard display; the importance of including a tiny bit of Transcendentalism 101; the value of playwrights supervising their own readings before passing it off to a director; and the absolute truism that plays are not written, they’re rewritten. (Length 20:34) The post Louisa At Fruitlands appeared first on Reduced Shakespeare Company.