# Shakespeare Now

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**Category:** ABC\
**Tags:** abc\
**Created:** [August 5, 2020, 5:09am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/shakespeare-now/14941 "2020-08-05T05:09:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![JohnsonTV](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9dc877/32.png) [@JohnsonTV](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/JohnsonTV)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2020, 5:09am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/shakespeare-now/14941/1 "2020-08-05T05:09:39Z")

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> [@ABC Television 2018](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/abc-television-2018/3890/4):
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> The ABC will partner with Golden Globe nominated production company LuckyChap Entertainment, Australian production company Hoodlum and ABC Studios International on a new 10-part series, retelling the work of Shakespeare from female perspectives.
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> The untitled project will be led by a female creative team who will produce ten standalone episodes, each based on a celebrated work of Shakespeare updated to comment on our modern, global society. The series is the first project to be announced from the partnership between the ABC, Australian production company Hoodlum (Harrow), LuckyChap Entertainment (I, Tonya) and ABC Studios International (Harrow).

The project now has a name: Shakespeare Now. It has also received story development funding from Screen Australia.

> _Shakespeare Now_  
> Hoodlum Entertainment, LuckyChap Entertainment  
> Genre Drama  
> Creative teams Anya Beyersdorf, Corrie Chen, Lucy Coleman, Elissa Down, Anchuli Felicia King, Michelle Law, Claire McCarthy, Elise McCredie, Leah Purcell, Amelia Roper, Sarah Scheller, Nadine von Cohen, Vivienne Walshe, Rachel Ward  
> Executive Producers Sally Riley, Margot Robbie, Brett Hedblom, Tom Ackerley, Josey McNamara, Tracey Robertson, Nathan Mayfield, Kerrin McNeil  
> Synopsis Shakespeare Now is a bold anthology series led by all-female creative teams. Adaptations of Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, MacBeth, Love’s Labour’s Lost, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Richard III, The Merchant of Venice and Twelfth Night, will be re-imagined, afresh, for television.

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**Post date:** [April 28, 2022, 11:39pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/shakespeare-now/14941/2 "2022-04-28T23:39:20Z")

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> **[Shakepeare Now still in development for ABC | TV Tonight](https://tvtonight.com.au/2022/04/shakepeare-now-still-in-development-for-abc.html)**
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> Reimagined Shakespeare plays are still planned for ABC anthology series.