[Candrama] It's 2024, Why Shakespeare? [A Symposium]

[Wes Pearce]

It's 2024, Why Shakespeare? [a symposium] Explores Shakespeare's Contested but
Enduring Legacy.

Many of his plays can be viewed as misogynistic and celebrating a colonial world view and
contain moments of intense homophobia, classism, antisemitism, and racism and yet
each year Shakespeare is the most produced playwright in Canada, the United States and
Great Britain.

From October 31 to November 1 join the University of Regina Theatre Department for It's
2024, Why Shakespeare? [a symposium]to find out why. This event will coincide with the
department's production of Shakespeare's As You Like It. The symposium aims to
problematize traditional perceptions of Shakespeare by exploring his legacy(s) in literature,
performance and cultural capital.

Inspired by scholarly research and discussions with the department, It's 2024, Why
Shakespeare? [a symposium] will delve into the complexities and contradictions
surrounding Shakespeare's works in 2024. Highlights include keynote addresses by Dr.
Peter Kuling (University of Guelph) and Dr. Martine Kei Green Rogers (Dean, School of
Theatre, De Paul University, Chicago), discussions with award winning playwrights Daniel
Macdonald (The Romeo Project, Blow Wind, Iago Speaks) and Kate Besworth
(Done/Undone) and admission to the opening night of and reception for As You Like It.

For more information, please contact Wes Pearce wes.pearce at uregina.ca
For further details AND to register please visit https://whyshakespeare2024.ca/


Special thanks to our funders - U of Regina Conference Fund, Faculty of Media, Art, and
Performance, Humanities Research Institute, Centre for Socially Engaged Theatre and the
Department of Theatre.

Wes D Pearce, MFA
Professor
Theatre Department/MAP

The University of Regina and its federated colleges are on Treaty 4 and Treaty 6 — the territories of the nêhiyawak, Anihšināpēk, Dakota, Lakota, and Nakoda peoples, and the homeland of the Michif/Métis nation.
I recognize that, as an institution founded by settlers, I benefit from being on this land. We are grateful for the privilege to learn, teach, and work here.
"Nothing's lost forever. In this world, there's a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead....The world only spins forward".  Tony Kushner Perestroika
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