iO’s Improvised Shakespeare Company Makes Magic; Art Institute’s Supernatural Shakespeare Manifests Mystery
Come, sit thee down upon this flowery bed, While I thy amiable cheeks do coy, And stick musk roses in thy sleek smooth head, And kiss they fair large ears, my gentle joy (4.1.1-4).
"The Nursery of Shakespeare" (1810), by Moses Haughton II, after Fuseli, shows the writer as a babe in the arms of Comedy and Tragedy, already invoking the fantastic that would eventually populate his output, including Caliban, Falstaff, the Macbeths and witches as well, plus other lesser creatures. The Improvised Shakespeare Company runs every Thursday at 8pm, and every Friday and Saturday at 8 and 10:30pm, at iO Chicago’s Del Close Theater, 1501 N. Kingsbury St. Tickets and information are available at 773-880-0199 and www.improvisedshakespeare.com/shows Supernatural Shakespeare is on display in Gallery 219A through October 10 at the Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S. Michigan. http://www.artic.edu/exhibition/supernatural-shakespeare