Jane Shakespeare

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Gender Female
Industry Arts
Occupation Theatre Director
Location London, United Kingdom
Introduction Theatre director. Occasional cultural commentator (I have opinions on the internet.)

"The web of our life is of a mingled yarn: good and ill together." - All's Well That Ends Well, William Shakespeare

"You know, real life just isn't like the movies. We are constantly led to believe in resolution and the restoration of the ideal status quo and it just isn't true." - Spaced, Tim Bisley (Simon Pegg)
Interests Theatre, plays, directing, Shakespeare, Austen, drama, Sarah Kane, Caryl Churchill, sleep, food, coffee, books, gin, rum, lemons, cumin, pirates, stories, internet, women in sci-fi, television
Favorite Movies Toy Story, Shakespeare in Love, The Apartment
Favorite Music Regina Spektor, The Beatles, Adele, Laura Marling, Blondie, Ella Fitzgerald, Chet Baker
Favorite Books Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, Keats, The Blind Assassin, The Penelopiad, The Iliad, The Odyssey, Bleak House, Catcher in the Rye, ooh many others

When your science teacher smashed a frozen rose with a hammer, did you warm the petals to bring them back to life?

"When" my science teacher did that? A girl sat under the desk and started playing the recorder in my science class, that's how alert my teacher was.