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Connoisseur Shakespeare: Shakespeare in the World
Iago on the Couch: A Special Presentation
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Ever wonder what fuels evil? Join us for a special presentation at WHYY on March 30, 2013 entitled "Iago on the Couch", where Dr. Dan Gottlieb of WHYY's "Voices in the Family" will hold a therapy session for one of Shakespeare's greatest villains, Iago from Othello. Join the beloved Dr. Gottlieb and talented actor J Hernandez while they explore exactly what makes this monster tick, and you may even get to ask a few questions of your own.
When: March 30, 2013 2:00pm - 3:30pm Where: WHYY 150 N. 6th Street Philadelphia, PA 19106 Tickets: $35, $25 for WHYY Members and Bard Card Holders. To purchase tickets/get more information, please call The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre's Box Office at 215-496-8001 or get them online here.
Shakespeare in the World: A Co-Presentation with The Barnes Foundation In the Fall of 2012 The Barnes Foundation and The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre partnered
to create a Friday evening lecture/performance series entitled Shakespeare in the World.
This 4 month (September – December) lecture series took place every 3rd
Friday and invited critical discussion around Shakespeare with guest
speakers, live performances and audience participation.
Albert Barnes and William Shakespeare are both one of a kind in their
spheres of work. The parallels are many and fascinating. It is in the
spirit of both men that this series is born. One of imagination,
creativity, innovation, eclecticism. A love of the world and a
celebration of the human spirit in its many expressions.
Shakespeare In Translation
September 21
Dr. Katherine Rowe
6:30–8 pm
2025 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
$30; members $20
Tickets online or call 866-849-7056
Providing
the theme for the Summer Olympic Opening Ceremonies in 2012,
Shakespeare's The Tempest is global touchstone for playwrights and
film-makers interested in the encounter between cultures. In an
informal, lively discussion format, working with gifted multilingual
actors, Prof. Rowe will explore the conversation between Shakespeare's
play and its most famous adaptation, Aime Cesaire's Une Tempete,
written for a global African diaspora.
Katherine Rowe
(Ph.D., Harvard) teaches and writes about literature and media change.
Trained as a scholar of Renaissance drama, she turned her attention to
questions of media history and adaptation. Her courses explore the
history of reading, writing and performance, in a global context, from
the Renaissance to the digital age. A recipient of grants from the NEH,
the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the PA Department of Education that
support her work in the digital humanities, Prof. Rowe is Associate
Editor of The Cambridge World Shakespeare Online, a principle
investigator for the Folger Shakespeare Library’s F21 Project, and
co-founder of Luminary Digital Media, which just published Shakespeare's
The Tempest for iPad: http://luminarydigitalmedia.com/joomla-1p5/ . |
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Magic and Witches in Macbeth
October 19
Dr. Annalisa Castaldo
6:30–8 pm
2025 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
$30; members $20
Tickets online or call 866-849-7056
Everyone
knows the Three Witches from Macbeth, except that they are almost never
called "witches" in the play. What does it mean that these characters
are called "secret hags" and "weird sisters" rather than witches? We'll
look closely at the text, as well as at performances dating back to the
1660s and investigate ways in which Shakespeare plays with gender, magic
and his audiences' assumptions.
Annalisa Castaldo received
her MA from Johns Hopkins University and her PhD from Temple University.
She is Associate Professor of English and the director of Gender and
Women's Studies at Widener University, where she teaches a range of
subjects including Shakespeare, Renaissance drama and Feminist Theory.
She has edited Shakespeare's Henry V and Macbeth and is currently at
work on a study of magic in early modern drama. |
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Global Shakespeare
November 16
Dennis Austin Britton
6:30–8 pm
2025 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
$30; members $20
Tickets online or call 866-849-7056
He may be England’s national poet, but Shakespeare is truly a global phenomenon. Shakespeare’s plays have been performed all over the world, and his works continue to be adapted and re-imagined to speak to historically and culturally specific contexts that are very different from those of renaissance England. This talk will explore the universal and global appeal of Shakespeare, focusing on performances and adaptations of Shakespeare’s works in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
Dennis Austin Britton received his MA and PhD in English literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is currently Assistant Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire, where he teaches a variety of courses on Shakespeare and early British literature. He has published essay on Shakespeare, his contemporaries, and on European encounters with Muslim peoples in the 16th and 17th century. He is also one of the 2012-13 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellows at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC.
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Hamlet and Genuine Emotion
December 21
Dr. Matt Kosuzko
6:30–8 pm
2025 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
$25; members $15
Tickets online or call 866-849-7056
What
is it about Shakespeare's Hamlet--the play and its title
character--that has held the attention and fired the imagination of
audiences and readers for so long? Drawing on assorted excerpts of
performance, this talk looks at Hamlet as Shakespeare's repository of
human emotions--a play we turn to for a map of all that is to be human,
from the hopeful to the hopeless to the profound to the terrifying."
Matt Kozusko is Associate Professor of English at Ursinus College, where he teaches Shakespeare and early modern drama. His principal research interest is in Shakespeare and performance. Recent publications include articles in Shakespeare Survey, Early Theatre, Shakespeare Bulletin, and Borrowers & Lenders, and an essay collection, Thunder at a Playhouse: Essaying Shakespeare and the Early Modern Stage (co-editor, Susquehanna UP, 2010). His edition of The Two Gentlemen of Verona (New Kittredge Shakespeare) is forthcoming. He is currently working on a monograph about Shakespeare as a redemptive or rehabilitative space in contemporary popular entertainment and imagination. He serves as editor for the Appropriations in Performance section of the journal Borrowers & Lenders: the Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation.
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The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre Reading Group: Hamlet
At The Barnes
September 12, 2012
October 10, 2012
November 14, 2012
December 12, 2012
10:30–11:30 am
2025 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Free with building admission
For tickets: 866.849.7056
Interested
in sharing your love for Shakespeare
with others? Here's your chance! Combining the best parts of a book club
and the theatre, participants will read a play aloud, taking turns
embodying parts, and pausing whenever necessary to discuss characters,
language, and story.
Join The Shakespeare Reading Group to read Hamlet this fall.
Join the Facebook group HERE
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