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Free Teaching Shakespeare webinar

Writing about web page http://www.teachingshakespeare.ac.uk/ For readers interested in Shakespearean pedagogy, there’s now a very exciting new resource that I’m touting on behalf of my former colleagues at the University of Warwick. "Teaching Shakespeare" is a collaboration between Warwick and the Royal Shakespeare Company, creating a package of interactive resources, guides and videos for use …

Britgrad 2012

Writing about web page http://www.britgrad.wordpress.com I don’t normally repost non-performance related material up here, but I’m always happy to make an exception in the case of Britgrad, the annual postgraduate Shakespeare conference at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon, which has been a very good friend to me over the last five years. I’m now ineligible …

World Shakespeare Festival

Work commitments and money restrictions are forcing me to be very conservative when it comes to this year’s World Shakespeare Festival, but I’m pleased that I’ve finally now got a few tickets booked and looking forward to being there for at least some of the Festival! So far I’m booked for the Globe to Globe …

Prince of Denmark (National) @ The Cottesloe Theatre

Writing about web page http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/59868/productions/discover-prince-of-denmark.html As a prelude to the afternoon’s Hamlet in the Olivier, I managed to catch one of the final performances of Michael Lesslie’s new play Prince of Denmark, part of the NT’s "discover:" programme. Aimed at teenagers, the production’s purpose was to provide a bridge for young people coming to the …

Twelfth Night (National Theatre Primary Classics) @ Warwick Arts Centre

Writing about web page http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/39017/primary-classics/primary-classics.html The Primary Classics series is an important part of the National Theatre’s youth work. You can argue till you’re blue in the face about the politics of canon, the centrality of Shakespeare as a "necessary" component of primary education, and whether there aren’t a great many more worthwhile theatrical projects …

The Tempest in Adaptation @ The CAPITAL Centre Studio

Writing about web page http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/pagestage/ Shakespeare Page-to-Stage-to-Page is a specialist module for English undergraduate finalists, concerned with Shakespearean performance and with a particular concern for adaptation and reviewing. As part of the class, the students work on a practical project, highlights of which opened the CAPITAL Centre’s New Work Festival today. The small audience were …

The End Result

Today I submitted my MA dissertation. This is of particular interest to this blog as, as my longest serving readers will know, this blog only came about because of my dissertation. Let me take you back, if you will, to March 2006. As the RSC’s Complete Works Festival rolled up and I started choosing which …