Shakespeare in Performance III

February 8, 2003

Focus on Romeo and Juliet
Lab Theatre, Room 2740
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at Maryland

Join us for a behind-the-scenes view of the University of Maryland Department of Theatre's production of Romeo & Juliet!

Learn about Elizabethan performance practices, try Renaissance dance or stage combat, explore design processes, hear director Carey Upton discuss folios and quartos as play texts, and watch a rehearsal in action.

Program:

8:45 am
Registration and Coffee

9:15 am
Welcome--Adele Seeff and Carey Upton

9:30 am
Discussion of Romeo & Juliet--Professor Maynard Mack, Jr.

11:00 am
Concurrent Sessions

• Text Workshop--Carey Upton and Rob Berry
• Fight Workshop and Rehearsal--Michael Johnson and Carrie Cole

• The Design Process--Pegi Marshall-Amundson, Debra Sivigny, Harold Burgess
• Dance and Movement--Virginia Freeman

1:00 pm
Lunch

2:00 pm
Open Rehearsal Forum

4:00 pm
Run-through of Fight and Balcony Scenes

Additional information:

The cost of lunch and registration is $17. The cost of registration without lunch is $5. Checks should be made payable to The University of Maryland and should be mailed by January 31, 2003.

To register, contact the Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies. Call 301-405-6830 or email crbs@umd.edu.

• For directions to the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at Maryland, visit their website
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• Programs from previous sessions:
  • Fall 2001 "Shakespeare in Performance" schedule
  • Fall 2002 "Shakespeare in Performance" schedule

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