Setting the scene for Shakespeare in Chicago: an interview with Brooke Flanagan.
From the dreamy, pastoral world of Bailey’s Harbour, we headed towards Chicago where we were met by the lovely Marilyn Halperin, Director of Education and Communications for Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. She organised an wonderful line-up of interviewees for us to tell the story of Shakespeare in the Windy City.
And we start with Brooke Flanagan, the Director of Institutional Advancement, who told us about how Chicago’s own sense of entrepreneurship is empowered by Shakespeare’s own…