During the COVID-19 lockdowns, to deal with isolation and lack of live theatre, we started gathering some of our favourite people every Tuesday & Saturday night to read scripts over Zoom. We read all 38 Shakespeare plays in six months. Then we kept going. We decided to create mini-seasons featuring highlights from the canons of major writers across generations, plus a few bonus episodes thrown in.

 

All of our readings are available to enjoy as full videos on our YouTube page but we’re also releasing them in audio form so they can be accessed through your favourite podcast app.

 

To celebrate two years since the beginning of Corona Cold Reads, our troupe reunited for a four-episode season of Shakespeare Reboots. We revisited four texts that we’d read together way back in early 2020, this time with all-new casts. In this episode, we attempted to read the entirety of Hamlet with only nine people, which is insane.

 

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The Cast of Hamlet 2.0

Hamlet- Elizabeth Yvette Ramirez

Gertrude/Fortinbras – Elizabeth Morriss

Claudius/ First Sailor- Weldon Goree

Polonius/Osric – Christopher Prentice

Ophelia/ Marcellus/Lord- Laura Hubbard

Horatio/Laertes- Nicanor Campos

Francisco/Player King /Guildenstern/Danes/First Clown (Gravedigger)- Hilary Wartinger

Ghost/Rosencrantz/ Captain/Messenger/First Ambassador/ Gentleman- Steve Vargo

Bernardo/ Voltimand/ Servant/First Priest/ Lucianus/First Player/Prologue/ Player Queen/ Reynaldo/Second Clown- Shalyn Bass-McFaul