Symposium: Interpreting Shakespeare Across Settings and Media/June 2, 2012

[Francesca Marini]

Some of you might be interested in the Symposium I organized for June 2nd in Stratford.

Best,

Francesca Marini, Ph.D.
Archives Director
Stratford Shakespeare Festival

Symposium: Interpreting Shakespeare Across Settings and Media
Studio Theatre, 34 George Street East
Saturday, June 2, 2012, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Tickets: $20 plus HST, through the Festival Box Office
Outstanding international speakers engage in an expert panel discussion of how Shakespeare’s work lends itself to a broad range of media, interpretations and settings. Colm Feore, one of Stratford’s most beloved actors, will speak about his Shakespeare work on stage, in film and on TV. Actor, director and producer Norman Lloyd will speak about his Shakespeare work in different media; Mr. Lloyd worked with legendary director and actor Orson Welles and was part of Welles’s Mercury Theatre company. Dr. Katherine Rowe (Ph.D., Harvard), Professor of English at Pennsylvania’s prestigious Bryn Mawr College, will address the theme of the Symposium in the context of her media and digital studies. Dr. Francesca Marini, Archives Director, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, will chair the session and moderate the Q&A. The Symposium marks the official launch of the exhibition Most Rare Visions: 60 Years of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival (Festival Exhibition, 104 Downie Street; open 7 days a week, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., from April 23 to November 9, 2012). The Symposium is generously sponsored by Dr. Jules and Josephine Harris.

Participants

Dr. Francesca Marini will chair the session and moderate the Q&A. Since July 2010, Dr. Marini has been Archives Director at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. Prior to this position, she was Assistant Professor at the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. The holder of a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science (UCLA) and a bachelor’s degree in Theatre Studies (University of Bologna, Italy), she has studied as an archivist in Italy. A leading expert in performing-arts archiving, she has been engaged in several research projects. She presents widely at national and international conferences, and publishes in archival and performing-arts journals. A member of the Board of the New York-based Theatre Library Association, she belongs to several scholarly and professional associations. Her new position as Archives Director is Dr. Marini’s dream job.

Colm Feore will speak about his Shakespeare work on stage, in film and on TV. One of Stratford’s most beloved actors, Mr. Feore has been active at the Festival since 1981; his roles there include Macbeth, Cyrano, Coriolanus, Fagin in Oliver!, Hamlet, Romeo, Richard III, Iago in Othello, Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew and Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady. He played Cassius opposite Denzel Washington in Julius Caesar on Broadway and received the St. Clair Bayfield Award. Film credits include Titus, Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (Genie nomination), Thor, Clint Eastwood’s Changeling, The Trotsky, Bon Cop, Bad Cop (Genie nomination), The Perfect Son (Genie nomination), Chicago, The Insider, The Chronicles of Riddick, The Red Violin (Jutra Award), The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Paycheck, The Sum of All Fears, City of Angels and Face/Off. His television roles include Henry Taylor in season 7 of 24; other credits include Trudeau (Gemini and Monte Carlo Television Festival awards), Law & Order SVU, The West Wing, Boston Public, Nuremberg, The Day Reagan Was Shot, Benjamin Franklin, And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself and Slings and Arrows. Mr. Feore is currently starring in Neil Jordan’s The Borgias with Jeremy Irons.

Norman Lloyd, actor, director and producer, will speak about his Shakespeare work in different media. Renowned worldwide for his stage, film and television work, Mr. Lloyd apprenticed with Eva Le Gallienne’s Civic Repertory Theater in New York and made his Broadway debut as Japhet in Noah (1935). He worked with legendary director and actor Orson Welles in Welles’s Mercury Theatre company, taking part in its ground-breaking 1937 stage production of Julius Caesar. Other stage roles include the Fool in King Lear opposite Louis Calhern (1950) and Lucio in Measure for Measure (1956-1957). Mr. Lloyd made his directorial debut in 1948 with The Road to Rome at La Jolla Playhouse and developed a very long and strong association with that theatre. His film and television work includes the title role in Alfred Hitchcock’s Saboteur (1942) and Dr. Auschlander in the 1980s TV series St. Elsewhere. Still very active, Mr. Lloyd was recently seen on TV’s Modern Family (2010). The subject of the 2007 documentary Who Is Norman Lloyd? and the author of Stages: Of Life in Theatre, Film, and Television (2004), he is attending the Cannes Film Festival this May.

Dr. Katherine Rowe is an internationally recognized expert in digital humanities who teaches and writes about literature and media change. Trained as a scholar of Renaissance drama, she turned her attention to questions of media history and adaptation. Her courses explore the history of reading, writing and performance, from the Renaissance to the digital age. A recipient of prestigious research grants, Dr. Rowe is Associate Editor of The Cambridge World Shakespeare Online and co-founder, with Elliott Visconsi, of Luminary Digital Media<http://luminarydigitalmedia.com/joomla-1p5/>, publisher of the Shakespeare’s The Tempest for iPad. She served on the editorial board of Shakespeare Quarterly. With Dr. Thomas Cartelli, she is the co-author of New Wave Shakespeare on Screen (2007).