Wednesday, November 15 at 10:30 pm. Shakespeare in the Shadows sets the Bard's work against San Francisco backdrops of swirling winds, wave-pounded rocks, wild coastal promontories and foreboding cityscapes. Award-winning filmmaker Joshua Dylan Mellars captures Guildhall-trained stage actor Mark Cohen performing a riveting one man show that includes six of Shakespeare's most intriguing characters. From the mysticism of Prospero's world of rough magic to the sinister corridors of Macbeth's Dunsinane, from Rome's majestic seats of power to Duke Senior's exile in the forests of Arden, from the damp dirty prison of Richard II to Cardinal Wolsey's acceptance of his long farewell to greatness, Cohen and the camera collaborate to produce a raw and honest evocation of Shakespeare's magical conjuring of time, place and emotion.

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