Measure for Measure

Event dates

December 5, 2005
Round table discussion
Performing Piety: Shakespeare and the Body in Measure for Measure
Featured presenters: Kent Cartwright, Simon DuToit, Donna Hamilton, Mitchell Hebert, Heather Nathans and Lindsey Snyder.
4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Lab Theatre
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
Sponsored by The Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies and Department of Theatre

Event details

Kent Cartwright, Professor of English (UMD), is the author of Theatre and Humanism: English Drama in the Sixteenth Century and Shakespearean Tragedy and its Double: The Rhythms of Audience Response. He will discuss teaching perspectives on the play.

Simon DuToit performs the role of Angelo. DuToit, a professor at Dordt College and a member of the doctoral program in Theatre, will discuss the impact of religious faith on the performer's body.

Donna Hamilton, Professor of English (UMD) and Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and Dean for Undergraduate Studies, will discuss how "Angelo" is constructed as a Puritan. She is the author of Anthony Munday and the Catholics, 1560-1633, 2005; Shakespeare and the Politics of Protestant England, 1992; and Virgil and "The Tempest": The Politics of Imitation, 1990.

Mitchell Hebert performs the role of the Duke. Professor Hebert will discuss memory, performance, and the actor's body. Hebert is long-standing company member of the Woolly Mammoth Theatre. He is the recipient of a 2004 Helen Hayes Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Resident Play, appearing as Morgan in The Drawer Boy at Round House Theatre.

Heather S. Nathans, the Director of the production, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre. Nathans will explore how (or whether) a director should translate complex theological debates onto the contemporary stage. Her directing projects at the University of Maryland include, The Taming of the Shrew, Fashion, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All for You, and 'Dentity Crisis.

Lindsey Snyder performs the role of Isabella. Snyder is a graduate of the RADA professional training program, a certified ASL instructor, and one of the Theatre Department's Shakespeare Globe Fellows. She will explore how performers sign the complex meaning of Shakespeare's text using the actor's body and American sign language.