Student Director Gives Shakespeare a New Twist

By Cathryn Lien, Contributing Writer The Bard’s most beloved comedy is coming to Asbury, but instead of lords and ladies, there will be flappers and dappers. Director Ashley Clark, who also directed last year’s production of Henry V, describes working with Shakespearean material as “coming home,” reminiscing on a childhood in which her English teaching mother read her “Will’s great plays.” Inspired by her study of C.S. Lewis in Oxford, Clark noted the similarities between 1920s England and Shakespeare’s England. “While looking … Continue reading Student Director Gives Shakespeare a New Twist