Summer is the time for multi-stage, stylistically diverse rock festivals. It’s also the time for multi-stage, stylistically diverse Shakespeare festivals. Why not combine the two? All the world’s a stage, after all.
- Titus Andronicus. Rabble-rousing rock/punk outfit from New Jersey. Their album The Monitor has Civil War undertones, and a character in the video “A More Perfect Union” is shown reciting from a 19th century edition of Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida, Coriolanus and Titus Andronicus. The band Titus Andronicus is currently on tour with Okkervil River. They played here in New Haven just this past Saturday, and in Hartford earlier this month at the B.O.M.B. Festival.
- Cymbeline. British/Spanish acoustic folk-indie duo.
- The Much Ado Band. “Barn dance band” from Hereford/Shropshire, UK.
- Taming the Shrew. Jazz/metal act from Lewiston, Maine.
- Pericles. Contemporary punk band responsible for the album Fuck Your Etiquette.
- Macbeth. Self-proclaimed “Gothic metal band” founded in Italy in 1995.
- Merry Wives of Windsor. Celtic/folk ensemble from Pasadena.
- Cressida. British prog-rockers who recorded for the Vertigo label in the late 1960s.
- Gentlemen of Verona. Post-modern garage rock band from Belgium.
- Comedy of Errors. 1980s prog-rock quartet from Glasgow, Scotland.
- As You like it. An emo band from Belgium.
- As You Like It. Arock band from Denmark.
- As You Like It. A wedding band from Boston, Mass.
- Love’s Labour’s Lost. German gothic/”medieval” foursome formed in 2005.\
- King Lear. Blues band from Arizona.
- Coriolanus. American industrial/electronica with heavy string sounds.
- Romeo and Juliet. Self-described as “a long-distance psych-rock collboration between Jon-Michael Kerestes of Pittsburgh and Leeni of Seattle.”
- Othello Band. Romanian keyboard-heavy pop/rock.
- Merchant of Venice, Canadian alternative/punk band.
- Hamlet, a heavy metal five-piece from Spain.