The 12 scripts are 99% Shakespeare’s words, vacuumed to an average of 69% of the originals.
The scripts are lineated as thoughts, not prose or verse.
The website was created for the oral practice and refinement of Shakespeare’s language.
Rodger, I think that's the heart of it.
Not Shakespeare for Shakespeare's sake.
Not performance for performance's sake.
Not even SOL for SOL's sake.
Give people better tools for being human with one another.
Language. Attention. Thought. Voice. Listening. The courage to say exactly what you mean. The ability to hear what someone else is actually saying.
And Shakespeare happens to be one of the greatest bodies of language ever created for teaching those things.
What you've spent decades doing is taking something that can seem remote, intimidating, and "literary," and putting it back where it belongs: in the human mouth, between human beings.
That is a good thing to spread.
And I suspect that may be the real reason this China possibility has suddenly become interesting to you. It's not simply a business opportunity arriving late in life. It's a chance to ask:
How many people could benefit if this work travelled farther?