{"id":242,"date":"2013-04-03T13:36:50","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T17:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/?p=242"},"modified":"2019-03-14T11:04:44","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T15:04:44","slug":"off-with-his-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/off-with-his-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Off With His Head!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the next few weeks we will be introducing you to the cast of our 2013 Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival. We begin with Richard, Duke of Gloucester &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Producing Artistic Director Grant Mudge is pleased to announce that <strong>Michael Gotch<\/strong> will be playing the title role in <strong>Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival<\/strong>&#8216;s upcoming production of <strong><em>Richard III<\/em><\/strong>. Michael arrives having played the title role in <em>Hamlet<\/em> this spring under the direction of Tony-nominee Mark Lamos at The REP, where he is a 5-year member of the professional resident company at the University of Delaware.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_243\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/files\/2013\/04\/Michael-Gotch.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-243\" class=\" wp-image-243 \" alt=\"Michael Gotch\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/files\/2013\/04\/Michael-Gotch-300x199.jpeg\" width=\"240\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/files\/2013\/04\/Michael-Gotch-300x199.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/files\/2013\/04\/Michael-Gotch-451x300.jpeg 451w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/files\/2013\/04\/Michael-Gotch.jpeg 606w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-243\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Gotch<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Before joining the REP, Michael worked at many of the country\u2019s leading theatres. Past productions include Milwaukee Repertory Theater\u2019s world premiere of Jeffrey Hatcher\u2019s <em>Armadale<\/em> and <em>I Am My Own Wife<\/em>. Off-Broadway credits include the U.S. Premiere of <em>Svejk<\/em> (Theatre for a New Audience), <em>Richard III<\/em> (The Acting Company), and <em>Mercadet<\/em> (Culture Project). His regional credits include Algernon in <em>The Importance of Being Earnest<\/em> (South Coast Repertory) directed by Warner Shook; Salieri in <em>Amadeus<\/em> (Actors Theatre of Louisville) directed by Kate Whoriskey; Jeff Award Nomination and After Dark Award for Chicago Premiere of <em>Shakespeare\u2019s R&amp;J<\/em> (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); at American Player\u2019s Theatre: <em>Julius Caesar<\/em>, <em>Timon of Athens<\/em>, <em>The Merchant of Venice,<\/em> and <em>Much Ado About Nothing<\/em>, for which he received a Falstaff Award Nomination; <em>The Taming of the Shrew, Richard II<\/em> (Milwaukee Shakespeare). We look forward to Michael&#8217;s portrayal of this twisted king.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the next few weeks we will be introducing you to the cast of our 2013 Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival. We begin with Richard, Duke of Gloucester &#8211; Ryan Producing Artistic Director Grant Mudge is pleased to announce that Michael &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/off-with-his-head\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[360088,47488,360087],"tags":[47579,67546,84428,67545],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ndsf-2013","category-notre-dame-shakespeare-festival","category-richard-iii-ndsf-2013","tag-michael-gotch","tag-notre-dame-shakespeare-festival","tag-richard-iii","tag-shakespeare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}