Fratellanza to Bring THE MUTE QUIRE to Ireland and China
by Courtnie Mele
- Jul 6, 2014
The Mute Quire, a theater piece created by Fratellanza, premiered in Michigan to critical acclaim and sold-out houses in 2012. Fratellanza has rewritten The Mute Quire and, as an international ensemble from America, China and Italy, has been chosen to perform it at the Galway and Macau Fringe Festivals. The baffling but true events surrounding the printing of Shakespeare's First Folio, are told in afreewheeling story of a blind printer, his illiterate apprentice, and a buffoonish actor from the King's Men. Highly kinetic and poetic, The Mute Quire reasserts the raucous and the popular in Shakespeare, against the counter-forces of individualism and profit.
