Shakespeare in Performance I

November 3, 2001

9 am to 5 pm
Lab Theater, Room 2740
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at Maryland

Join theater professionals and scholars in a day-long conference

• to explore Shakespeare's plays as staged texts
• to engage imaginatively with Elizabethan stage spaces
• to tour one of the newest playing spaces for Shakespeare—the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at Maryland
  

The day will include (view the full schedule):

• "Actors Workshop" with Aaron Posner of the Arden Theatre Company. Observe a director in action with his actors as they mine Shakespeare's text for stage directions and clues to scene building.
  
  
• "Reconstructing Shakespeare's Globe Theatre" with Frank Hildy. Enjoy a slide-illustrated lecture tracing the decisions and research underpinning the Globe Theatre project.
  

Concurrent sessions:

• Hardy M. Cook: "Using Shakespeare on Film in the Classroom"
• Michael Jerome Johnson: "Combat in Shakespeare"
• Barbara Hodgdon, Drake University: "Who Is Performing in These Text(s)? Or, Shrewing Around": Hear a theater historian explain how modern editors change meaning as they introduce stage directions to The Taming of the Shrew.
• Guided Tour of The Clarice Smith Center for the Performing Arts at Maryland

Sponsored by the Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies in conjunction with the Departments of Theatre and English, with support of the College of Arts & Humanities at the University of Maryland. For additional information or to register, contact the Center. Conferees must register by October 26, 2001.

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