Shakespeare in Performance IV:
Shakespeare's Comedies: Texts and Contexts

February 28, 2004

Lab Theatre, Room 2740
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at Maryland
University of Maryland, College Park

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Program

8:30 am Coffee and Registration
9:00 am Welcome
9:15 am Keynote
"Walking Shadows: Shakespeare’s Comedies on Film"
Peter S. Donaldson
Director, Shakespeare Interactive Archive
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10:45 am Coffee
11:00 am "Understanding the Text Through Performance: Actors’ Workshop"
Leigh Smiley
Department of Theatre
University of Maryland
12:30 pm Lunch (by subscription or on own)
1:15 pm

Concurrent Workshops

"Elements of Comedy in The Comedy of Errors"
Kent Cartwright
Department of English
University of Maryland

"Creating Comedy and Comic Character Through Movement”
Isabelle Anderson
The Shakespeare Theatre, Academy for Classical Acting
2:30 pm Break
2:45 pm

Concurrent Workshops

"Love at First Sight in Shakespeare’s Comedies"
Theodore Leinwand
Department of English
University of Maryland

"To Wive and to Punish"
Sabrina Baron
Department of History
University of Maryland
4:00 pm “The Triumphs of Oriana”
University of Maryland chamber singers
Edward Maclary, Director
5:00 pm Adjourn
Co-sponsored by the Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies, the School of Music, and the Department of Theatre. This program was made possible, in part, with funds from the Maryland Humanities Council, through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

For more information, contact Pamela S. Deane at 301-405-6830 or email: psdeane[at]umd.edu.