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The Actors Shakespeare Company at New Jersey City University is a professional, non profit ensemble theater, entering into its Tenth Season of service to the Hudson County area, and its fifth at New Jersey City University. ASC’s relationship to NJCU has blossomed into a full partnership, as ASC was made the theatre in residence at NJCU in 2008.

ASC produces the plays of Shakespeare as well as other classics and classically inspired works, staged readings, and, most recently, podium readings of new, Shakespeare themed plays (such as The Jewish King Lear) and experimental laboratory productions of Shakespeare’s texts.

The Company chooses to keep the audience lit throughout the production, and makes liberal use of character/audience relationship, keeping with the notion that Shakespeare’s plays were performed outdoors during the day, and that the literature is meant to engage, as well as entertain, its audience. The Company does not indulge these conventions out of tradition or a sense of historical recreation, but to explore how such practices activate the language of the text and the conflicts of the story.