CADENT SHAKESPEARE CO.
Thank you for joining us for
KING LEAR
This project was a relatively light lift that packed a punch. Time commitment was low and flexible, enabling each of us to maintain jobs and careers, family commitments, and personal stability while making work that meaningfully stretched our creativity and craft. Fundraising & marketing efforts were streamlined, strategic, and most importantly, SHARED. We met our goal with relative ease and then sold out the house. Expenses were low, with 80% going towards artist stipends. While larger scale production is of course on the horizon for Cadent Shakespeare Co., this project was a compelling testament to our mission: experimenting with form and structure in pursuit of sustainable creative practice.
What's Our deal
Cadent Shakes creates space for artists to engage in rigorous and satisfying work without sacrificing their wellbeing or livelihood.
Inspired by the dance between order and chaos innate to Shakespeare’s verse, we collaborate towards sustainable creative practice by prioritizing ethics-based logistical and creative skills.
Founded in 2024 by Sarah Corbyn Woolf and an ensemble of founding artists, Cadent Shakes focuses on Shakespeare’s canon with an array of techniques and modalities for scholarship, embodiment, and play.
A New North Star
Cadent Shakespeare Co. seeks to reconsider the balance between resource and creativity, in pursuit of community enrichment, self-expression, and clear, impactful storytelling.
Our artists bring creative breadth and depth, professional training and experience, and passion for our craft. But we’re also out here raising families, running business, and building communities, not to mention tending to our own physical and mental health. Inspired by Shakespeare's verse, its structure and flexibility, “Cadent” speaks to our commitment to a sustainable rhythm strong enough to withstand a creative process while also preserving the livelihood of our artists.
Pictured (L-R): Will Swyers, Ximena Salmerón, and Myka Plunkett rehearsing.
Sustainable Creative Practice
We want to leave our community nourished rather than depleted following a project. To that end, we are developing an ethics-based logistical structure that will create opportunities for artists to engage in rigorous creative collaboration without sacrificing their wellbeing or livelihood.
Better structures lead to better storytelling, and better storytelling builds stronger connection between actor and audience, teacher and student, artist and artist, and across the wider community.