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Talks and Lectures
Perspectives
Chaired platform talks and discussions prompted by the plays in the theatre season.
Venue: Nancy W Knowles Lecture Theatre
Tickets: £8 (£5 FoSG /concs/students)
TRAVESTIES OF SHAKESPEARE PLAYS
9 August
The Shakespeare Travesty is usually associated with the pantomime tradition of the Victorians, when a popular Shakespeare play—usually Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello or Richard III—was parodied in rhymed verse with an occasional song interpolated.
But the travesty tradition began officially in 1810, when it was created as a literary form, with its parody aimed at the voluminous annotations of the 18th Century critical editions of Shakespeare’s plays.
With wit and insight, Curator John Wolfson will trace the development of travesties of Shakespeare from their origin in the 17th Century to the height of their popularity 150 years ago.
Time: 5pm
HELEN
13 August
Director Deborah Bruce and composer Claire van Kampen discuss the process of bringing Frank McGuinness's adaptation of Euripides’ strange, comic fairy-tale-like romance onto the Globe stage.
Time: 6pm
A NEW WORLD
11 September
Playwright Trevor Griffiths joins a public panel discussion to explore the writing and staging of A New World, his drama set during the late eighteenth century and inspired by the life of Thomas Paine.
Time: 6pm