Dance master kalyan biography of william shakespeare

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William Shakespeare, a name that needs no recognition, was the greatest dramatist of English literature. However, very few facts about his life are recorded, even if that is also a guess and not certain. There is no authentic biography of Shakespeare available.

Shakespeare was born on April 231564 in Stratford, Warwickshire. Both his father, John Shakespeare and his mother, Mary Arden, were uneducated. In his early life, perhaps Shakespeare attained grammar school where he learnt some Latin and Greek. It is considered that he never went to high school or college. Nature was his teacher, and he had a deep insight through which he learned human nature. His works were mostly based on his imagination and his perception and experience of human life. When he was 14, due to his family's economic crisis, he had to leave his school to do some job to support his family. It is not clear what kind of job he had done. There is speculation that perhaps he was a school teacher or clerk of a lawyer.

Shakespeare Married Life

Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway when he was 18 years old and she was 26. On November 27, 1582, the Diocese of Worcester's consistory court granted a permit for marriage. Two of Hathaway's neighbours placed bonds the following day ensuring that no legitimate claims would prevent the marriage. The Worcester chancellor allowed the marriage banns to be read once rather than the customary three times, and six months after the wedding, Anne gave birth to a daughter, Susanna, who was baptised on May 26, 1583, suggesting that the ceremony may have been planned in some haste. Nearly two years later, son Hamnet and daughter Judith, who were twins, were baptised on February 2, 1585. At the age of 11, Hamnet passed away from unexplained circumstances and was buried on August 11, 1596.

Shakespeare left little historical traces after the twins were born, and it wasn't until 1592 that he

Brian received his training as an actor at Burnaby South High School, Vancouver’s Holiday Theatre, and at the École Lecoq in Paris. Changing his focus to direction and dramaturgy in the mid-1970s, he has since created over a hundred and fifty professional productions for most of the major theatres across Canada as well as theatres in Europe, the United States and Mexico. As dramaturge, he has nurtured many of the leading playwrights of his generation. As a teacher, he has taught for numerous institutions including McGill, Concordia, Simon Fraser, York, Waterloo and Toronto universities as well as the National Theatre School of Canada.

Brian is the Founding Artistic Director of Saskatoon’s Persephone Theatre and has also served as Artistic Director for Montreal’s Playwrights Workshop, Thunder Bay’s Magnus Theatre, and Toronto’s Theatre Passe Muraille. A four-time nominee for Dora Mavor Moore Awards for Outstanding Direction, Brian won this award for his 1988 production of Fire. He has also won Dora Awards for Outstanding Production (Fire, as well as Lillies, 1991). Brian is also the Founder and Producing Artistic Director of Victoria’s Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre (BBRT). Founded in 2009, BBRT is a company that offers the audiences of Victoria and its visitors contemporary visions into the great works from the past, as well as offering early career professional theatre artists the opportunity to work alongside some of the leading theatre practitioners of the day.

Brian served as the Chair of the Department of Theatre from 2001-2008. During this time he directed ten productions for the department including; Frogs, Peer Gynt, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, The Fever, He Who Gets Slapped, Guys and Dolls, Tyrants, Wind in the Willows, Dark of the Moon and Romeo and Juliet.

Brian has received numerous senior artist grants f

Prague Shakespeare Company Staff

Guy Roberts, Founding Artistic Director
Jessica Boone, Producer
Elissa Levitt, Associate Director & Intensive Coordinator
Josh Morrison, Associate Director & Production Manager
Jeff Smith, Associate Director & Audience Services Director
Ash Visker, Production Associate & Education Coordinator
Fawzia Istrabadi, Production Associate & Social Media Marketing Manager
Michal Matola, Technical Director (CZ) & Building Services
Iva Navrátilová, Assistant to the Artistic Director
Eva Bellefeuille, Resident Costume Designer
Přemysl Janda, Resident Lighting Designer
Paulina Kostov, Resident Costume Shop Supervisor
Bailey Smith, Communications and Design Specialist
Samantha Bass, Audience Services Manager & Production Associate

Guy Roberts, Founder and Artistic Director

Guy Roberts is the Founder and Artistic Director of Prague Shakespeare Company, the professional English language theatre of the Czech Republic, celebrating its 18th year in 2025. He has produced, directed and acted in over 300 productions and his work has been experienced onstage in the United States, Czech Republic, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Hungary, Austria, Italy, Slovakia, Poland, Qatar, Egypt, and India and he and his productions have been honored with multiple awards and over 100 US theatre award nominations, including many for Best Actor, Director and Production.

He recently co-produced, directed and acted in the EU Creative Europe co-production of a multi-lingual Hamlet with PSC, the bremer shakespeare company (Germany), and the Odessa Academic Music and Drama Theatre (Ukraine) that has performed in Bremen, Germany and both the Estates Theatre and Prague Castle in the Czech Republic and will celebrate Shakespeare’s Birthday on 23 April, 2025 at the world-famous Gdansk Shakespeare Theatre in Poland. In 2020, his PSC solo production of Hamlet at Main Street Theater Company in Houston, TX was ho

Atul Kumar’s new play will interpret William Shakespeare through Contemporary dance and gibberish

A scene from Khwaab Sa from their premiere in Taiwan

When we stepped into a rehearsal studio in Andheri, recently, Anamika Tiwari (who plays Titania) and Gagandev Singh Riar (who essays Oberon) in Khwaab-Sa, an adaptation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, were locked in a passionate scene. Entangled in an embrace, their dialogues in The Company Theatre’s latest production, sounded a lot like Bhojpuri to us. When we whispered to director Atul Kumar, asking him if his new play was in a regional language, he nodded in the negative. “It’s gibberish,” he said, flashing a knowing smile. “ We have used phonetic impressions of various North Indian languages and invented our own language. If you listen to it you might think it’s a dialect, but it’s nonsense. We manage to communicate with gestures,” he said.

Anamika Tiwari and Gagandev Singh Riar rehearsing a scene. Pic/Nimesh Dave

Taiwan to Mumbai
The play — a mix of Contemporary dance, Hindi gibberish and live Contemporary World Music performed by artistes from all over India — was commissioned by Kham Theatre in Taipei, Taiwan. After opening there in October, the play is now ready to premiere in India with a run in Bengaluru, Delhi, Mumbai, Lucknow and Pune, in January. “We have changed about 30 per cent of the content that the play opened with, including the music, dance sequences and costumes. An actor had to be replaced, too,” revealed Kumar, adding, “It was a luxury that usually theatre companies don’t have. I am glad we could afford to do it.”

Atul Kumar

Kumar’s earlier play Piya Behrupiya, an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, (2012) featuring live Folk music, opened in London and turned out to be a commercial success. “I like Folk music but doing a mus