What’s in a name?

A lot- especially when you put the name Chamber before the title of a production.

So what does it mean and what can you expect and why should go see a Chamber production at Seattle Shakespeare Company?

The Chamber is an adaptation concept. We seek to adapt the plays to make them more intimate, urgent and available to contemporary audiences attuned to the quicker plotting of modern film and theatre. The subplots will be stripped away, focusing the play on the main storyline. The streamlined text is all muscle.

The Chamber format challenges the small cast of actors, who are tasked to play a variety of roles.

The play will probably be staged in the round, emphaziing the intimate nature of the work we do.

As with Chamber music, our overall objective is to distill Shakespeare’s plays without diminishing their emotional or intellectual resonance, and, perhaps, enlarging their impact.