SHAKESPEARE FEST 2007

Saturday, March 10, 2007
Art/Sociology and Tawes Buildings

8:15 am
Coffee and Registration

8:45 am
Welcome and Introduction

9:00 am – 10:30 am
Keynote Address: “Romeo and Juliet” on Film: the Next Generation
Patricia Lennox
New York University
Room 2203 Art/Sociology

10:30 am – 10:45 am
Break

10:45 – 12:15
Concurrent Workshops Session A

Boarding the Bard: A Director’s Perspective
on Staging Shakespeare
Douglas C. Wager
Temple University
Room 2203 Art/Sociology

For Students Only! Acting/Directing Workshop
David Markey & Madeleine Burke
Imagination Stage
Bethesda, Maryland
Room 1154 Tawes

12:15 pm – 1:00 pm
Lunch

1:00 pm – 2:20 pm
Concurrent Workshops Session B

Theories of Comedy & “The Comedy of Errors”
Kent Cartwright
University of Maryland
Room 2309 Art/Sociology

Renaissance Dance Workshop
Virginia Freeman
University of Maryland
Room 1154 Tawes

Stage Combat Workshop
The Noble Blades
Resident Stage Combat Troupe
Room 2203 Art/Sociology

Undressing Shakespeare: How Costumes Define Character
Celestine Ranney-Howes
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Room 2314 Art/Sociology

Insult and Persuasion
Jasmine Lellock
University of Maryland
Room 1213 Art/Sociology

2:20 pm – 2:30 pm
Break

2:30 pm – 3:45 pm
Concurrent Workshops Session C

Renaissance Dance Workshop
Virginia Freeman
University of Maryland
Room 1154 Tawes

Shakespeare’s Sister’s Kitchen:
Recipes, Remedies, and Food in Elizabethan England
Catherine Field
University of Maryland
Room 2309 Art/Sociology

Stage Combat Workshop
The Noble Blades
Resident Stage Combat Troupe
Room 2203 Art/Sociology

Masking and Unmasking Shakespeare
Dody DiSanto
Center for Movement Theatre, Washington, DC
Upper Atrium, Art/Sociology

Shakespeare Films: Mirrors of Their Times
Karen Nelson
Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies
Room 1213 Art/Sociology

3:45 pm – 4:00 pm
Break

4:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Scenes from “The Tempest”
Performed by students from DuVal High School, Lanham Maryland
Carol Jordan, Director

4:30 pm
Adjourn

Sponsored by the Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies, with support from the Office of
Undergraduate Studies and the Pepsi Fund for Campus Enhancement

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