HowWeWill

What You Will, BRTs new production of Shakespeares Twelfth Night that infuses the classical Shakespeare text with the life and rhythms of the hip hop generation is collaboration between BRTs Artistic Director Keith Baker and nationally renowned choreographer/artist Donald Byrd. The goal of the project is to reach our current generation and impact their participation in the arts. What You Will includes a cast of young artists and musicians and will premiere at BRT in the spring of 2009.

What You Will fuses all the accoutrements of contemporary hip hop culture and Elizabethan text through emotion, rhythm and language. The ideal outcome is a highly professional production attended by a diverse and informed audience that shares the same multi-generational demographics that will be represented on stage and in the creators. Both Keith Baker and Donald Byrd feel that the theatre cant survive unless there are younger people engaged as participants/witnesses/audiences.

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