Read Not Dead
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Back By Popular Demand
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Rarely Played Seminars
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Read Not Dead Prose
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Read Not Dead On The Road
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Against Prejudice
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Sam Wanamaker Fellowship Lecture
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Hamlet and the Test of Time
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Sam Conversations
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Shakespeare’s Sonnets
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Research In Action
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Public Workshops
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Youths That Thunder
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Introductory Lectures
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Theatre Company Q&As
Rutgers Conservatory
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The Sam Wanamaker Festival
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The Woman in the Moon
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Edward’s Boys in the Playhouse
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Oxford University Drama Society
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A Concert For Winter
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Adult Courses
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Study Days
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Training for Actors and Directors
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Family Half Term Events
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Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank
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Shakespeare, Where Are You?
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King Lear Retold
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The Mozart Question
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Shakespeare’s Telling Tales
Productions
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Courses
Staged Readings
Family Events
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Calendar
Foyer Exhibitions & Symposium
Lectures & Talks
Staged Readings
CONTENTS
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Foyer Exhibitions
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Thomas Nashe Symposium
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January – June
46 – 47
July – December
AROUND PLAY This year we celebrate the 20th anniversary of Bankside’s third Globe Theatre with a variety of events exploring the world Around Play. Events for families include tale-telling in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, stories for half-term and our second Shakespeare’s Telling Tales Festival. Young actors from the UK’s leading drama schools will take to the Globe stage in the annual Sam Wanamaker Festival and present scenes by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Two students from India will join the festival and present a scene from Julius Caesar in Hindi. Our Read Not Dead series celebrates Philip Massinger who succeeded Shakespeare and Fletcher as the King’s Men’s principal playwright. Four plays written “Before Shakespeare” will also be staged as performances with scripts. Productions in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse include As You Like It, Thomas Nashe’s Summer’s Last Will and Testament and John Lyly’s The Woman in the Moon. We are delighted to be working with Glyndebourne as we preview its newly commissioned opera of Hamlet. The composer, Brett Dean will join Simon RussellBeale, Ian McEwan, Ann Thompson and Tom Bird on a panel exploring Hamlet and the Test of Time chaired by Melvyn Bragg.
Renowned theatre producer Thelma Holt and celebrated actor Adrian Lester will be two of the contributors to this year’s series of Sam Conversations. Mr Lester recently played Ira Aldridge in the West End. In September we host an evening exploring the life and career of the extraordinary Shakespearean actor who died in 1867. Pre-performance talks and short courses will complement the plays in Emma Rice’s Summer of Love season. Grace Ioppolo will give this year’s Sam Wanamaker Fellowship Lecture on Shakespeare and Us, John Wolfson’s annual talk will focus on Shakespeare’s Sonnets while Kiernan Ryan will explore Shakespeare and Social Justice. Actors, scholars and the general public alike are invited to participate in a range of workshops and symposia exploring Edmund Spenser’s poetry, Thomas Nashe’s prose, a Restoration adaptation of The Tempest and the plays of John Marston! Further events will be added during the course of the year. Information will be found at: shakespearesglobe.com/AroundPlay With best wishes,
Patrick Spottiswoode Director, Globe Education
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STAGED READINGS
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Our Read Not Dead series this year celebrates Philip Massinger who succeeded Shakespeare and Fletcher as the King’s Men’s company playwright, from 1625–1640. Other staged readings in the Playhouse will include prose and verse writings by Nashe and Edmund Spenser as well as four pre-Shakespearean plays.
READ NOT DEAD
THE DUKE OF MILAN by Philip Massinger (published 1623) Sunday 26 February Ludovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan, receives word that his French allies have been defeated by the Spanish armies of Charles V. He is told that he must visit the Spanish Emperor and submit to his rule. Unable to bear the thought of his wife Marcelia marrying another if he dies in this fateful meeting, he asks his favourite courtier, Francisco, to kill Marcelia if he does not return from the Spanish camp alive. Once the Duke leaves, however, events take a treacherous turn...
STAGED READINGS
The Read Not Dead ground-rules are simple. Actors are given the play on a Sunday morning and present it, script in hand, to an audience later that afternoon. What follows is a shared spirit of adventure and excitement for actors and audiences alike who sense that they might be uncovering a neglected gem.
THE FALSE ONE by Philip Massinger and John Fletcher (published 1647) Sunday 19 March The drama follows the aftermath of the Roman civil wars and the assassination of Pompey by his treacherous assassin, Septimus. Confined and controlled by her brother, Ptolemy XIII, Cleopatra is eager to introduce herself to the recently victorious Caesar, hoping to trade her sexuality for power. When his sister proves successful, Ptolemy tries to divert Caesar’s attentions with a display of Egypt’s opulence, leaving him caught between lust for Cleopatra and desire for ostentatious wealth.
Time: 4.00pm Venue: Sackler Studios, Shakespeare’s Globe Tickets: £10 (£8 Friends of Shakespeare’s Globe / Student) Globe Education would like to thank Matt Williamson, Lucy Munro, John Lavognino, Martin Wiggins, Frances Marshall, Philip Bird and Jason Morell.
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READ NOT DEAD
in the SAM WANAMAKER PLAYHOUSE
RARE TRIUMPHS OF LOVE AND FORTUNE*
SAPPHO AND PHAO*
Anon (published 1589) Sunday 14 May
by John Lyly (published 1584) Sunday 27 August
Venus, goddess of love, and Fortune, goddess of fate and downfall, argue over their respective powers. To settle the matter, they decide to meddle in the lives of mortal men and women. Who will cause the most havoc? Descending on a royal court, the two goddesses swiftly derail the course of everyday life for the hapless courtiers under their sway.
Sappho is the virginal queen of Sicily, and the goddess Venus is not happy about her virginity. So she gives the beautiful local ferry-boy, Phao, an even more beautiful make-over and causes Sappho and Phao to fall in love. But marriage between queens and ferry-boys is discouraged, and the play follows Sappho’s attempts to sidestep Venus’ plans for compulsory heterosexual union. Will the lovers manage to fall out of love?
FEDELE AND FORTUNIO* by Anthony Munday (published 1585) Sunday 18 June The scene is Naples, and the subject is courtship. In this riotous comedy, the course of true love runs anything but smoothly. Virginia loves Fedele, who loves Victoria, who loves Fortunio – but who will end up with whom? The Neapolitan wooers are compelled to take drastic action to win over their beloveds...
MUCEDORUS* Anon (published 1590) Sunday 16 July The most frequently performed and printed of early modern plays, Mucedorus centres on its mysterious title character, a lowly stranger who saves the princess Amadine from a savage bear. This attracts the envy of Amadine’s cowardly fiancé, Segasto, who tries first to have Mucedorus killed, and then has him banished from the court. Amadine flees the palace to find him and soon runs into peril. Will Mucedorus save Amadine? And will he reveal his true identity?
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THE ELDER BROTHER by Philip Massinger and John Fletcher (published 1637) Sunday 17 September With his daughter Angelica having turned 14, Lewis decides that it is time to find her a suitable husband. His neighbour, Brisac, has two eligible sons: the scholarly Charles (the eponymous elder brother) and his younger, more worldly brother Eustace. With the latter seeming the better match, Lewis and Brisac plot to transfer Charles’ birthright to his brother, while promising to leave him with a suitable income. But when Charles and Angelica meet and instantly fall in love, things do not go quite the way their fathers had hoped.
Time: 4.00pm Venue: Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe Tickets: £15 (£12 Friends of Shakespeare’s Globe / Student)
Sunday 1 October
THE BASHFUL LOVER by Philip Massinger (published 1655) Sunday 3 December
Venue: Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe
Set in northern Italy, Massinger’s last known play presents a drama of love and war. Enamoured with Matilda, the Princess of Mantua, the love-sick Hortensio frequents the court in the hope of seeing her. But Matilda’s hand in marriage is demanded by Lorenzo, the Duke of Florence, who threatens war should he be denied. When Gonzaga, the Duke of Mantua, refuses, battle ensues and Lorenzo’s Florentine forces are victorious. When Lorenzo finally meets Matilda, however, something unexpected occurs.
Tickets: £15 (£12 Friends of Shakespeare’s Globe / Student)
Time: 4.00pm
Join us for the staged reading of the winning entry from the Back By Popular Demand Voting Event (see page 9). The four plays chosen for this year’s Back By Popular Demand will be either solo or collaborative plays by Philip Massinger. Time: 4.00pm
STAGED READINGS
READ NOT DEAD: BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND WINNER
Venue: Sackler Studios, Shakespeare’s Globe
THE GREAT DUKE OF FLORENCE by Philip Massinger (published 1636) Sunday 12 November Widowed and childless, Duke Cozimo has vowed to leave his dukedom to his nephew Giovanni. Giovanni has spent his childhood in the country where he has fallen in love with Lidia – the epitome of female goodness. His attempts to bring Lidia to court arouse Cozimo’s suspicions and he sends his favourite, Count Sanazarro, to give report of her. The plot’s twists and turns begin when Sanazarro instantly falls in love with Lidia, and Cozimo is not far behind...
Tickets: £10 (£8 Friends of Shakespeare’s Globe / Student) * This reading is in association with Before Shakespeare, an AHRC funded project coordinated by Dr Andy Kesson (University of Roehampton). For further details please visit beforeshakespeare.com
Time: 4.00pm Venue: Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe Tickets: £15 (£12 Friends of Shakespeare’s Globe / Student) 7
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Thursday 1 June Over 200 plays written between 1567 and 1642 have been staged in the Read Not Dead series since the reading of Amends for Ladies launched the project in 1995. Four directors team up with four scholars and present their arguments for reviving one of four Read Not Dead favourites. Actors will stage a selection of chosen scenes and vie for your vote. The winning play will then be performed in the Autumn. Four plays written or co-authored by Massinger will be presented at the hustings. Come and cast your vote.
These popular seminars provide engaging and stimulating introductions to the plays in the Read Not Dead series. All Rarely Played seminars take place in the Nancy Knowles Lecture Theatre before the Read Not Dead performances. Please note that the Rarely Played seminar on 29 October takes place at Gray’s Inn.
Time: 1.00pm – 3.00pm Venue: Nancy Knowles Lecture Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe Tickets: £5 #RarelyPlayed
Time: 7.00pm
Date: Sunday 29 October
Venue: Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe
Time: 12 noon – 2.00pm
Tickets: £10 (£5 Friends of Shakespeare’s Globe / Student)
STAGED READINGS
BACK BY POPULAR RARELY PLAYED DEMAND VOTING SEMINARS EVENT
Venue: The Bingham Room, Gray’s Inn, 8 South Square, London, WC1R 5FT Tickets: £5 Please note the seminar and reading times at Gray’s Inn are different from those at Shakespeare’s Globe.
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READ NOT DEAD ON THE ROAD at Gray’s Inn
TERRORS OF THE NIGHT
THE UNNATURAL COMBAT
by Thomas Nashe (published 1594) Saturday 20 May
by Philip Massinger (published 1639) Sunday 29 October
The candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse plays host to an eerie staged reading of Thomas Nashe’s unsettling and disturbing exploration of night terrors. Nashe speaks in a variety of voices as his speaker tries to understand whether humans are surrounded by demons, witches and ghosts, or whether these are real terrors unleashed by the devil in his futile struggle with God. It will be the first time that Nashe’s extraordinary text, which had a major influence on the development of prose and drama in the age of Shakespeare, has been read aloud by candlelight.
Read Not Dead on the Road returns to the beautiful and intimate setting of the Gray’s Inn Hall for Massinger’s tragedy.
The reading will be directed by Jason Mosell and introduced by Dr Kate De Rycker (University of Newcastle). This event is part of a research project by scholars from the University of Sussex and the University of Newcastle. We would like to thank the Arts and Humanities Research Council for supporting this event.
Globe Education is indebted to the Treasurer and Under Treasurer of Gray’s Inn for hosting Read Not Dead once again. Members of Gray’s Inn will join Globe actors to present the drama in the Hall, in a staged reading.
Time: 7.00pm
Time: 3.00pm
Venue: Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
Venue: Gray’s Inn, 8 South Square, London, WC1R 5FT
Tickets: £20 (£18 Friends of Shakespeare’s Globe / Student) £10 Standing Please see page 43 for details of the symposium Thomas Nashe: Prose, Drama and the Oral Culture of Early Modern London which is open to the public and will precede the reading. 10
The Admiral of Marseilles, Malefort Senior, is on trial for mysterious reasons when his son, Malefort Junior, challenges him to a duel to settle the case. Malefort Senior kills his son, mutilates his body and is cleared of the charges against him. Meanwhile, Beaufort Junior, the son of the governor, is in love with Malefort Senior’s daughter, Theocrine. But he is not the only one: realising his own desires for his daughter, Malefort Senior asks his old friend Montreville to keep her away from him, to which Montreville readily agrees, desiring Theocrine for himself...
Tickets: £25 (£20 Friends of Shakespeare’s Globe / Student) Shakespeare’s patron, the Earl of Southampton, was a member of Gray’s Inn and the first recorded performance of The Comedy of Errors took place in Gray’s Inn Hall.
staged reading STAGED READINGS
Against Prejudice An evening to celebrate Ira Aldridge Tuesday 19 September A staged reading of Against Prejudice by Tony Howard followed by a panel discussion celebrating the life and career of the extraordinary actor, Ira Aldridge (1807 – 1867). Time: 7.00pm – 9.00pm Venue: Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
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Tickets: £20 (£18 Friends of Shakespeare’s Globe / Student) £10 Standing
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LECTURES & TALKS Lectures, talks and Q&As offer lively social, political and theatrical perspectives to complement the productions in the Globe Theatre and Sam Wanamaker Playhouse seasons.
HAMLET AND THE TEST OF TIME An evening chaired by Melvyn Bragg presented by Shakespeare’s Globe and Glyndebourne Thursday 11 May This summer Glyndebourne stages a new opera of Hamlet by composer Brett Dean. In anticipation of this premiere, Melvyn Bragg hosts an evening of conversation about the enduring fascination of Shakespeare’s play and its reinterpretation through different artistic medium. Panellists include Brett Dean, composer of the new opera; Ian McEwan, author of Nutshell, a novel narrated by a character very similar to Hamlet; Simon Russell Beale, who performed the title role in 2000; Ann Thompson, co-editor of the Arden Shakespeare Hamlet editions; and Tom Bird, producer of the Shakespeare’s Globe’s world Hamlet tour. An excerpt from the opera will also be performed. Time: 7.00pm – c.8.30pm Venue: Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe
Lectures & talks
Glyndebourne SAM WANAMAKER hamlet: A PANEL FELLOWSHIP DISCUSSSION LECTURE ‘THERE IS THE PLAYHOUSE NOW; THERE must you SIT’: SHAKEspeare and US Professor Grace Ioppolo (University of Reading) Thursday 8 June What exactly was the relationship between Shakespeare and his original theatrical and literary audiences? How did he envision his relationship with future generations of audiences? This lecture will look at Shakespeare’s relationship with us through the use of playhouses, actors and texts from his own time to ours. This lecture will be illustrated by a Globe actor. Time: 7.00pm Venue: Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe Tickets: £15 (£12 Friends of Shakespeare’s Globe / Student)
Tickets: £30 (£20 Restricted View / £10 Standing)
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sam conversations One of this country’s most renowned actors and one of this country’s most celebrated theatre producers discuss their respective careers performing and producing Shakespeare.
Adrian Lester, in conversation with Professor Ayanna Thompson
Sam Conversations take place in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.
Award winning actor and director, Adrian started his career with a string of successful West End productions including Company and Sweeney Todd, before playing the lead role in Mike Nichol’s movie Primary Colors. Other movie roles include Day After Tomorrow and Case 39. Adrian is also well known for his TV work including the BBC1 series Hustle. Title roles Adrian has played include Henry V and Othello at the National Theatre, Red Velvet in London and New York and Hamlet in Peter Brook’s The Tragedy Of Hamlet in London, Paris, Japan and New York.
Thursday 25 May
Ayanna Thompson is Professor of English at George Washington University, and she specializes in Renaissance drama and issues of race in / as performance. She is the author of many publications, including Teaching Shakespeare with Purpose: A Student-Centred Approach (2016) and Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race, and Contemporary America (2011).
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Time: 7.00pm – 8.00pm Venue: Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe Tickets: £15 (£12 Friends of Shakespeare’s Globe / Student)
In Conversation with Thelma Holt
Thursday 6 July
Thelma Holt held an audience spellbound when she spoke in the Playhouse last year about her work with the late Japanese director Yukio Ninagawa. We have invited her back to reflect further on her remarkable career with Shakespeare in this country and abroad; the British productions she has taken all around the world and the leading international theatre companies she has brought to Great Britain.
Lectures & talks
SHAKESPEARE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE with Professor Kiernan Ryan
Thursday 10 August
Right from the start, Shakespeare had no qualms about staging scenes in which the intolerable human cost of social injustice is brought vividly alive, astutely camouflaged as woes of long ago and other lands. But the more he applied his mind to the problem of social justice, the more profound his grasp of its cause, and the source of its solution, became. Through close readings of a wide range of plays, including Titus Andronicus, The Merchant of Venice, Measure for Measure, Macbeth and King Lear, Kiernan Ryan shows how Shakespeare employs the power of the imagination to foster the dream of a truly just society.
Time: 6.00pm – 7.00pm
Time: 7.00pm – 8.00pm
Venue: Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe
Venue: Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe
Tickets: £15 (£12 Friends of Shakespeare’s Globe / Student)
This talk precedes the Oxford University Drama Society’s performance – see page 29 for further details.
Tickets: £15 (£12 Friends of Shakespeare’s Globe / Student)
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John Wolfson, Honorary Curator Rare Books (Shakespeare’s Globe) Thursday 17 August ‘More folly has been written about the Sonnets than about any other Shakespearean topic.’ (E. K. Chambers)
Lectures & talks
SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS – ARE THEY autobiographical? Time: 6:00pm Venue: Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe Tickets: £10 (£5 Friends of Shakespeare’s Globe / Student)
Every subject relating to the Sonnets is in dispute. When were they written? To whom were they addressed? What was Shakespeare’s exact relationship with the young man in the Sonnets? In the 1640 edition, some pronouns were altered so that all of the love poems would appear to be addressed to a woman. These changes were not corrected for one hundred and forty years. When Shakespeare’s original text was restored in 1780, the arguments began. John Wolfson will summarise the last two centuries of scholarly disagreements over the Sonnets. The talk will be illustrated by Globe Actors.
John Wolfson’s The Inn at Lydda was staged in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse last year.
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Our Research in Action workshops give you the chance to be part of Globe Education’s exploration into the indoor theatres of 17th century London. The workshops mix theatre practice and scholarship in an engaging investigation of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse’s theatrical capacities. Using extracts from well-known and less-familiar plays, Globe actors and leading academics test the dramatic and technical potential of our indoor space. Expect discoveries – and expect to be asked for your feedback! Please see our website for announcements on two further Research In Action events on Monday 8 May and Monday 14 August.
Lectures & talks
RESEARCH IN ACTION PERFORMING ELIZABETHAN POETRY: SPENSER AND SHAKESPEARE Monday 12 June Early modern poets and playwrights were rarely far from each other’s practice. Although we appreciate the poetic qualities of Shakespeare’s lines, rarely do we consider the performance value of early modern poetry. What was the relationship between poetry and drama? How did early modern drama affect or connect with the extraordinary poetry written in the same period? How important was Shakespeare for Spenser, or Spenser for Shakespeare? This Research in Action workshop will address and test these questions by staging poetry written by the most admired Elizabethan poet: Edmund Spenser, ‘the Prince of Poets in his tyme’. This event is a collaboration between Globe Education and the International Spenser Society.
Time: 6.00pm – 8.30pm Venue: Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe Tickets: £10 (£5 Friends of Shakespeare’s Globe / Student)
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PUBLIC WORKSHOPS PERFORMING RESTORATION SHAKESPEARE: DRYDEN AND DAVENANT’S THE TEMPEST
EDITING IN ACTION: THE OXFORD WORKS OF JOHN MARSTON
Wednesday 12 July Time: 2.00pm – 6.00pm
Saturday 22 July
Thursday 13 July Time: 10.00am – 2.00pm When London theatres reopened in 1660, Shakespeare’s plays were performed not as found in the First Folio but in specially commissioned adaptions. Now rarely staged, Restoration versions of Shakespeare – with added music, song and scenic effects – were extremely popular with audiences. In these open workshops, we will explore scenes from John Dryden and William Davenant’s adaptation of The Tempest, or The Enchanted Island, the most successful Shakespeare play in the Restoration era. The events offer unique opportunities for the public to engage with scholars, actors and musicians and learn more about the history of Shakespeare on stage. This event is part of ‘Performing Restoration Shakespeare’, a three year project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and led by Queen’s University Belfast.
Venue: Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe Tickets: £15 per day (£5 per day Friends of Shakespeare’s Globe / Student)
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The Oxford Works of John Marston, currently in preparation, will be the first complete critical edition of this neglected but fascinating playwright. Tonight’s event is a work-in-progress, allowing the team of 14 international scholars to explore how works such as The Malcontent and The Dutch Courtesan translate into performance. The editors will ask for your feedback as they investigate particular theatrical puzzles in Marston’s comedies, satires and tragedies.
Time: 6.00pm – 8.30pm Venue: Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe Tickets: £10 (£5 Friends of Shakespeare’s Globe / Student)
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Lectures & talks
these are the YOUTHS THAT THUNDER Thursday 23 November Two rising stars in Shakespeare studies will share their research with the general public in 20 minute papers followed by discussion. Past thundering youths have included: Dr Jakub Boguszak (University of Southampton) Dr Tom Cornford (University of London), Dr Derek Dunne (Folger Shakespeare Library), Dr Sarah Dustagheer (University of Kent), Dr Ben Fowler (University of Sussex), Dr Gwilym Jones (University of Westminster), Dr Andy Kesson (University of Roehampton), Dr Sarah Lewis (King’s College London), Dr Trevor Rawlins (Guildford School of Acting), Dr Edel Semple (University College Cork), Dr Simon Smith (University of Birmingham), Dr Miranda Fay Thomas (Shakespeare’s Globe and University of Greenwich) Dr Will Tosh (Shakespeare’s Globe), and Dr Emma Whipday (University College London).
Time: 6.00pm Venue: Nancy Knowles Lecture Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe Tickets: £10 (£5 Friends of Shakespeare’s Globe / Student)
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THEATRE COMPANY q&As
Leading Shakespeare scholars, with the support of Globe actors, offer inspiring introductory talks to the plays in the Globe Theatre and the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse seasons.
Theatre company members share their experiences of this season’s plays in the Globe and answer your questions in these chaired Q&As after the following matinees.
THE WHITE DEVIL
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
31 January 7 February
OTHELLO
28 February 14 March
ROMEO AND JULIET 9 May 6 June 20 June
TWELFTH NIGHT 24 May 28 June 5 July
KING LEAR 23 August 4 October
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING 22 August 19 September
Lectures & talks
Introductory Lectures
18 March
ROMEO AND JULIET 10 May 21 June
TWELFTH NIGHT 27 June 4 July
KING LEAR
15 August 26 September
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING 20 September 10 October
Time: 15 minutes after the matinee performance Venue: Nancy Knowles Lecture Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe Tickets: £5 (£4 Friends of Shakespeare’s Globe / Student)
Time: 6.00pm – 7.00pm Venue: Nancy Knowles Lecture Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe Tickets: £8 (£6 Friends of Shakespeare’s Globe / Student)
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PRODUCTIONS
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The Edward’s Boys make a welcome return to the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse with Nashe’s neglected comedy Summer’s Last Will and Testament while the Oxford University Drama Society make a first appearance in the candlelit Playhouse in one of Shakespeare’s comedies. In the Globe Theatre, audiences are invited to A Concert For Winter, our free annual celebration of Southwark. As You Like It and Julius Caesar will be presented in the Globe by the Rutgers Conversatory and students from the UK’s leading drama schools gather together to present scenes by Shakespeare and his contemporaries in the annual Sam Wanamaker Festival.
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As You Like It (all-male) & Julius Caesar (all-female) Directed by Simon Dormandy As You Like It – Friday 17 February Julius Caesar – Saturday 18 February Rutgers Conservatory at Shakespeare’s Globe present an all-male As You Like It and an all-female Julius Caesar. Each performance can be enjoyed on its own, or as a part of an overarching story in which the Globe itself plays a role, changing the lives of a group of young American actors, who find themselves and the world they have left behind strangely reflected in the mirror of Shakespeare’s plays.
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RUTGERS CONSERVATORY AT SHAKESPEARE’S GLOBE Time: 6.30pm Venue: Globe Theatre Tickets: Free tickets are available for these workshop performances To request tickets, and for more information, please email: higher.education@shakespearesglobe.com
Rutgers Conservatory at Shakespeare’s Globe is Globe Education’s flagship conservatory training programme.
These workshop performances are the culmination of the residency and a celebration of their time at the Globe.
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BFA and MFA Acting majors from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, embark on intensive classical training at the Globe for most of their junior year.
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THE SAM WANAMAKER FESTIVAL Sunday 2 April ‘Then is there mirth in heaven When earthly things made even Atone together.’ As You Like It, Act V, scene 4. Students from the UK’s leading drama schools and Rutgers Conservatory at Shakespeare’s Globe present scenes by Shakespeare and his contemporaries in the Globe Theatre. The public performance offers a heady mix of tragical, historical, pastoral and comical scenes culminating in one mighty festive finale jig. With thanks to Spotlight.
Time: 4.00pm Venue: Globe Theatre Tickets: £10 seated / £5 standing
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Tickets will be available in January 2017
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PRODUCTIONS
the Woman In The Moon An astrological sex comedy by John Lyly Directed by James Wallace Friday 18 August Saturday 19 August
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Utopia. God is female – Nature herself. When four shepherds beg for a mate, she creates Pandora, the first woman. But the seven planets are jealous, and take turns to revenge themselves on her as she is pursued by the four love-struck men. This extraordinary dream play by England’s first great playwright, was performed before Queen Elizabeth I sometime around 1590. With bewildered lovers suffering dizzying emotional transformations at the hands of unseen supernatural forces in a night-time woodland chase, it clearly inspired Shakespeare’s own A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Now, The Dolphin’s Back revives and reimagines its much praised 2014 production to play by candlelight in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. thedolphinsback.com ‘Hilarious, sexy and perhaps most surprisingly, cool.’ London City Nights
Time: 18 August: 8.00pm, 19 August: 3.00pm & 8.00pm Venue: Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe
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Tickets: £30 (£20 Friends of Shakespeare’s Globe / Student) and £10 Standing This performance lasts approximately 90 minutes
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EDWARD’S BOYS IN THE PLAYHOUSE SUMMER’S LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT By Thomas Nashe (published 1592) EDWARD’S BOYS (From King Edward VI School, Stratford-Upon-Avon) Directed by Perry Mills Friday 29 September Edward’s Boys have received academic and critical acclaim for their work which is regarded as, ‘the most sustained attempt to re-imagine what we think boy companies could achieve.’ This is the third performance by Edward’s Boys at Shakespeare’s Globe, following the success of Galatea and The Lady’s Trial in previous years. This year, Edward’s Boys return to Bankside with a full production of Thomas Nashe’s Summer’s Last Will and Testament, Nashe’s only solo-authored play, performed at the Archbishop’s Palace in Croydon. A company Q&A will follow the performance. This event is part of a research project by scholars from the University of Sussex and the University of Newcastle.
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We would like to thank the Arts and Humanities Research Council for supporting this event.
Time: 7.00pm Venue: Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe Tickets: £30 (£20 Friends of Shakespeare’s Globe / Student) and £10 Standing
Tuesday 8 August – Saturday 12 August
As You Like It by William Shakespeare The Oxford University Drama Society was founded in 1885. It can boast an illustrious list of alumni and many celebrated actors and directors have been invited to work with the Society. Romeo and Juliet was John Gielgud’s directing debut with Peggy Ashcroft and Edith Evans in the cast. In 1966 the Society invited Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor to take part in Dr Faustus.
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oxford university drama society IN THE PLAYHOUSE Time: 8.00pm There will also be a matinee on Saturday 12 August at 4.00pm Venue: Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe Tickets: £30 (£20 Friends of Shakespeare’s Globe / Student) and £10 Standing and Restricted View
For the past two decades, student directors have made a bid to take a Shakespeare production to Japan under the auspices of the celebrated late Japanese theatre director, Yukio Ninagawa. Ninagawa, a member of the Globe Council and the first Artistic Advisory Group, was never able to fulfil his ambition to direct a play here before his death in 2016. Christopher White will direct As You Like It in memory of Ninagawa. It will be the first OUDS visit to Shakespeare’s Globe and the candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. ‘It is a great tribute that this company can now perform on Shakespeare’s territory and bring to life the work of a playwright who for Ninagawa was the greatest the world has ever seen.’ (Thelma Holt)
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With thanks to the Cameron Mackintosh Drama Fund and Thelma Holt Ltd.
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A CONCERT FOR WINTER Thursday 7 December A Concert For Winter is our free annual showcase and celebration of the past, present and future of Southwark. Complete with song, dance, poetry and performance, the event celebrates the borough’s rich talents. For further information or to book, contact: ed.productions@shakespearesglobe.com
Time: 1.00pm Venue: Globe Theatre
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PRODUCTIONS
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COURSES
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Our courses are designed for members of the general public who want to learn more about the theatrical and socio-political context of Shakespeare’s plays. They are run by leading scholars and theatre practitioners.
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ADULT COURSES Courses
SHAKESPEARE’S BOLD WOMEN
SHAKESPEARE ON LOVE
30 May – 3 June
14 – 18 August
Focusing on the characters of Juliet, Viola and Beatrice, this course explores the representation of Shakespeare’s bold female roles. Scholars and Theatre Practitioners will join you in exploring how gender is portrayed in Shakespeare’s plays.
This course will focus on the perceptions of love in Elizabethan England. Join Theatre Practitioners and Scholars as they discuss a variety of representations of love during Shakespeare’s time.
Please note the course fee includes a ticket to the Back By Popular Demand Voting Event on Thursday 1 June at 7.00pm in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.
Please note the course fee includes a ticket to John Wolfson’s talk on Shakespeare’s Sonnets on Thursday 17 August at 6.00pm in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.
Time: 2.00pm – 6.00pm Venue: Sackler Studios, Shakespeare’s Globe Tickets: £230 (£210 Friends of Shakespeare’s Globe / Student)
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STUDY DAYS A day of workshops, seminars and lively discussion for adult learners, exploring the season’s plays, led by Globe Theatre artists and distinguished Shakespeare scholars. Advised age of participants: 18+
ROMEO AND JULIET 6 May
TWELFTH NIGHT 24 June
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING 23 September
KING LEAR 14 October
Time: 10.00am – 5.00pm Venue: Sackler Studios, Shakespeare’s Globe
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Tickets: £55 (£45 Friends of Shakespeare’s Globe / Student)
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Training for Actors and Directors Acting Studios
Dates for 2017 to be announced
Globe Education runs a distinguished training programme for undergraduate, postgraduate and professional actors. Our work is delivered by Globe Actors, Globe Education Practitioners and specialists, who share their approaches to working with Shakespearean drama in both the Globe Theatre and the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. Actors who work with us will explore how the unique architectural conditions of these theatres help to shape performance choices and unlock the versatility of the Shakespearean text. Our emphasis on text work enables us to help trainee and professional actors develop their own practice of classical acting in any venue.
Are you an experienced director but would like to advance your skills in directing a Shakespeare play? We will be offering 12 directors a chance to join Globe experts in a series of masterclasses, focusing on approaches to preparing and rehearsing Shakespeare’s plays in the Globe Theatre and the indoor Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. Directing Studio will take place over a single weekend and comprises of four main sessions: A Director Prepares, Text and Language, Voice and Movement in the Theatre.
If you are an actor who would be interested in hearing more about our Voice, Movement, Text and Acting Studios, please email us at: studios@shakespearesglobe.com
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Please email: studios@shakespearesglobe.com to be informed when dates are announced.
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Directing Studios
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FAMILY EVENTS
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Our popular Shakespeare’s Telling Tales family festival returns this summer. Half term family workshops and storytelling offer lively introductions to a range of Shakespeare’s plays. Family performances of The Taming of the Shrew will take place in the Globe on Saturdays during March.
Family events
FAMILY HALF TERM EVENTS Tales Around Play
Tuesday 14 February – Saturday 18 February
Tales for Winter
Tuesday 24 October – Saturday 28 October Explore the world around some of Shakespeare’s best loved plays during the February and October half terms. Delve into Shakespeare’s tales together through a series of lively storytelling sessions by our Globe Education storytellers. Families can also enjoy workshops focusing on the themes and language of Shakespeare’s texts. All of these engaging and dramatic sessions bring your family closer to the characters and settings of some of Shakespeare’s classic stories. Join us in February and October for wonderful weeks of tale telling.
Time: Please keep an eye out on our website for further details Venue: Various venues across Shakespeare’s Globe site Tickets: TBC
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PLAYING SHAKESPEARE WITH DEUTSCHE BANK THE TAMING OF THE SHREW Family Performances: Saturday 4 March Saturday 11 March Saturday 18 March Saturday 25 March ‘I see a woman may be made a fool, if she had not a spirit to resist.’ The Taming of the Shrew, Act III, scene 3. Our Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank productions are created for young people. This is an opportunity to attend a full-scale, fast-paced 90 minute performance within the glory of the Globe Theatre. The Taming of the Shrew is a story of sibling rivalry, perceptions and expectations of women and the power of fathers and husbands; themes that are still strongly relevant to today’s teenagers.
Venue: Globe Theatre Tickets: £5 – £15
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Thanks to the support of Deutsche Bank tickets are available for these family performances at a subsidised rate.
storytelling King Lear retold
Sunday 23 April
Saturday 17 June
Who on earth was Shakespeare? As it turns out, no one really knows!
‘ Tell me my daughters...which of you shall we say doth love us most?’
We don’t know how he became an actor or when he began writing plays, we don’t even know if 23 April was his actual birthday...
In an explosive retelling of the legend of Lear, king of the Britons, Debs Newbold channels her love of Shakespeare’s language to whip up a storm that will snatch you from your seat. Created for a sell-out show at The Hay Festival, toured internationally and performed to acclaim at Shakespeare’s Globe, this is a family storytelling event you will not want to miss.
But as he’s one of the most famous writers of all time, maybe we should try and find out? Join our wonderful storyteller James Askill as he tries to discover who the mysterious Mr William Shakespeare really was.
Family events
Shakespeare, where are you?
Suitable for ages 12+ In association with Southwark Dementia Action Alliance to celebrate Creativity and Wellbeing Week.
Suitable for ages 7+
Time: 11.00am –12.00 noon and 1.00pm – 2.00pm Venue: Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe Tickets: £12 Adult (£10 Child)* Time: 3.00pm – 4.15pm Venue: Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
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SHAKESPEARE’S TELLING TALES
A unique concert performance narrated by Michael Morpurgo
28 – 30 July
Family events
the mozart question
Thursday 27 July and Friday 28 July
Shakespeare’s Telling Tales is our Family Storytelling Festival.
A reporter sent to Venice to interview world-renowned violinist Paolo Levi is told she can ask him anything about his life and career, but on no account must she ask him the Mozart question...
We all have our favourite stories, whatever age we are. Perhaps it’s a much loved childhood character, a thought provoking teenage fiction tale, or maybe we’re most fond of a classic story.
The Mozart Question tells the story of this worldfamous performer who developed his passion for music as a young child with the help of his teacher, Benjamin.
Our weekend long festival celebrates the joy of storytelling, with activities for all the family. Shakespeare’s tales are brought to life by Globe Education storytellers and our interactive workshops create a lively and active way to learn more about Shakespeare’s plays.
Alongside this story is that of his parents who were both musicians too – Jewish prisoners surviving, playing music in a concentration camp during the Second World War. Treated with utmost sensitivity for a family audience, The Mozart Question is a story of friendship and family, truth and secrets – interwoven by the power of culture and music. Suitable for audiences from 8 years old this unique performance of the story, narrated by Michael Morpurgo and Alison Reid, is beautifully enhanced and embellished with extracts from music by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach and Vivaldi. Featuring Daniel Pioro on violin and string quartet The Storyteller’s Ensemble.
Time: Thursday 27 July, 2.30pm and Friday 28 July, 12.00 noon Venue: Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe For booking details visit our website: shakespearesglobe.com
We also play host to a group of children’s writers who will provide insights into their favourite characters and themes and give you the chance to practice your own creative skills. Festival-goers can also experience ‘Bottom’s Book Market’ a space dedicated to stories. With pop up performances, puppet shows, reading tee-pees and a multi-sensory space, this wonderful place is guaranteed to make storytelling accessible for all lovers of a good yarn. Visit shakespearesglobe.com/tellingtales for news about our festival line up as it is announced.
Time: TBC Venue: Various venues across Shakespeare’s Globe site For dates and booking details visit our website: shakespearesglobe.com/tellingtales
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FOYER EXHIBITIONS & SYMPOSIUM
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SYMPOSIUM
20 YEARS ON: REMEMBERING THE GLOBE
THOMAS NASHE: PROSE, DRAMA, AND THE ORAL CULTURE OF EARLY MODERN LONDON
June – August (Dates TBC) Her Majesty the Queen attended the opening performance in the Globe Theatre in June 1997. The exhibition will include photographs and memorabilia of the opening season when Mark Rylance played Henry V.
MASSINGER: PLAYS IN PRINT September – December (Dates TBC) A display of pre-1642 quartos of Massinger plays recently donated to the Globe Library by John Wolfson.
Saturday 20 May Thomas Nashe (1567– c.1600), polemicist, dramatist and early novelist, shaped the culture of early modern literature in the age of Shakespeare. This symposium will explore Nashe’s influence on drama and the visual nature of his work. It forms part of the Thomas Nashe Project, a major collaborative project which is overseeing a new six-volume edition of the works of Nashe for Oxford University Press. The symposium will conclude with a Read Not Dead reading of The Terrors of the Night in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse – please see page 10.
Please visit shakespearesglobe.com for further announcements about our foyer exhibitions. Time: 10.00am – 6.00pm Venue: Nancy Knowles Lecture Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe Tickets: The event is free and open to the general public – please register at: sussex.ac.uk/cemms/events/nashe
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FOYER EXHIBITIONS
CALENDAR JANUARY to JUNE 2017 JANUARY 31
MARCH Introductory Lecture The White Devil
FEBRUARY 7
Introductory Lecture The White Devil
14 – 18
Tales Around Play
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Rutgers Conservatory at Shakespeare’s Globe As You Like It Rutgers Conservatory at Shakespeare’s Globe Julius Caesar
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Read Not Dead & Rarely Played The Duke of Milan
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Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank The Taming of the Shrew Family Performance
6 – 10
Adult Course Shakespeare and Race
11
Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank The Taming of the Shrew Family Performance
14
Introductory Lecture Othello
18
Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank The Taming of the Shrew Family Performance & Theatre Company Q&A
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Read Not Dead & Rarely Played The False One
25
Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank The Taming of the Shrew Family Performance
CALENDAR 2017
APRIL
JUNE
2
Sam Wanamaker Festival
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Family Storytelling Shakespeare, Where Are You?
MAY
1
Read Not Dead Back By Popular Demand Voting Event
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Introductory Lecture Romeo and Juliet
8
The Sam Wanamaker Fellowship Lecture Professor Grace Ioppolo
12
Research in Action Performing Elizabethan Poetry
6
Study Day Romeo and Juliet
8
Research in Action
9
Introductory Lecture Romeo and Juliet
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10
Theatre Company Q&A Romeo and Juliet
Family Storytelling King Lear Retold
18
11
Hamlet and the Test of Time
Read Not Dead & Rarely Played Fedele and Fortunio
14
Read Not Dead & Rarely Played Rare Triumphs of Love and Fortune
20
Introductory Lecture Romeo and Juliet
21
Theatre Company Q&A Romeo and Juliet
20
Symposium Thomas Nashe
24
20
Read Not Dead Prose Terrors of the Night
Study Day Twelth Night
27
24
Introductory Lecture Twelfth Night
Theatre Company Q&A Twelth Night
28
25
Sam Conversation Adrian Lester
Introductory Lecture Twelth Night
30
Adult Course Shakespeare’s Bold Women (ends on 3 June)
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CALENDAR July to December 2017 JULY 4
Theatre Company Q&A Twelfth Night
5
Introductory Lecture Twelfth Night
6
Sam Conversation Professor Kiernan Ryan
12 & 13
Performing Restoration Shakespeare
16
Read Not Dead & Rarely Played Mucedorus
22
Editing in Action
27 & 28
The Mozart Question
28 – 30
Shakespeare’s Telling Tales
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AUGUST
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8 – 12
Oxford University Drama Society in the Playhouse
10
Sam Conversation Thelma Holt
14
Research in Action
14 – 18
Adult Course Shakespeare on Love
15
Theatre Company Q&A King Lear
17
John Wolfson Shakepeare’s Sonnets
18 & 19
The Woman in the Moon
22
Introductory Lecture Much Ado About Nothing
23
Introductory Lecture King Lear
27
Read Not Dead & Rarely Played Sappho and Phao
CALENDAR 2017
SEPTEMBER
NOVEMBER
17
Read Not Dead & Rarely Played The Elder Brother
12
Read Not Dead & Rarely Played The Great Duke of Florence
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Introductory Lecture Much Ado About Nothing
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These Are The Youths That Thunder
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Against Prejudice An evening celebrating Ira Aldridge
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Theatre Company Q&A Much Ado About Nothing
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Read Not Dead & Rarely Played The Bashful Lover
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Study Day Much Ado About Nothing
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A Concert For Winter
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Theatre Company Q&A King Lear
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Edward’s Boys Summer’s Last Will and Testament
DECEMBER
OCTOBER 1
Read Not Dead & Rarely Played Back By Popular Demand Winner
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Introductory Lecture King Lear
10
Theatre Company Q&A Much Ado About Nothing
14
Study Day King Lear
24 – 28
Tales for Winter
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Read Not Dead & Rarely Played On The Road The Unnatural Combat
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