Barton, Hall and Shakespeare conference final programme

BARTON, HALL AND SHAKESPEARE

ROSE THEATRE KINGSTON-UPON-THAMES SEPTEMBER 8 2018

10.00:  Barton and Hall

Chair: Richard Wilson

Michael Cordner : John Barton

Stuart Hampton Reeves: Peter Hall

11.30: Coffee

12.00: Michael Pennington and Janet Suzman in conversation with Andrew Jarvis

13.00: Lunch

14.00: Trevor Nunn in conversation with Russell Jackson

15.00: The Wars of the Roses

Chair: Lois Potter

Michael Hattaway: ‘A Retrospect: The Wars of the Roses: the Original Performances and their Effects’

Dominique Goy-Blanquet: ‘Black Princes and Blood-Red Roses: Barton / Hall versus Shakespeare’

Gerald Baker: ‘An Age of Roses: Contending for The Contention’

16.30: Tea

17:00: Shakespeare’s Advice to the Players

Chair: Michael Dobson

Ben Naylor: ‘Advice to the Players: Peter Hall and Antipathy to Stanislavsky and the Method’

Ildiko Solti: ‘Rocking the Boat: Peter Hall, the Kingston Rose, and the status of the Text’

Frank Whately: ‘Peter Hall at the Rose: An Indian Summer?’

18.30: Judi Dench in conversation with Stanley Wells

19.30: Drinks Reception hosted by Oberon Books

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Derrida and Shakespeare, 1 September

KINGSTON SHAKESPEARE SEMINAR AT GARRICK’S TEMPLE

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 1 2018

DERRIDA AND SHAKESPEARE

09.30: Registration and coffee (Temple Pavilion) 

10.00:  Chair: Richard Wilson (Kingston University)

Nicholas Royle (Sussex University):
‘Shakespeare Dreaming’

11.00: Coffee (Temple Pavilion)

11.30:  Chair: Paul Kottman (New School, New York)

Tina Chanter (Kingston University):
‘What’s in a name? Death, anteriority, iterability’

Christopher Prendergast (University of Cambridge):
‘Derrida’s Hamlet: Ghosts, Being and Justice’

13.00 Lunch (Bell Inn, Hampton)

14.30 Chair: Oliver Harris (Manchester Metropolitan University)

John Joughin:
‘Derrida starting again with Garrick’

Andrew Cutrofello (Loyola University Chicago):
‘“Give Me Thy Hand”: Antinomianism and Countertime in Antony and Cleopatra.’

16.00: Tea (Temple Pavilion) 

16.30: Chair: Stuart Elden (Warwick University)

Howard Caygill (Kingston University):
‘“All the Grandfathers”: Derrida’s “Infinite Admiration” of Shakespeare’

17.30: Round Table Discussion

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David Garrick built his Shakespeare Temple beside the Thames at Hampton in 1755 as a place where ‘the thinkers of the world’ would meet to reflect on the plays. He hoped Voltaire would come. Now the Kingston Shakespeare Seminar is realising the great actor’s vision, with a series of symposia on Shakespeare in Philosophy.

This event, open to all, will include talks by leading philosophers and Shakespeare scholars, coffee and tea in the riverside garden designed by Capability Brown, and lunch at the historic Bell Inn.

Tickets are £20. All proceeds go to support the Temple. Get tickets at:
Kingston Shakespeare Series Conference: Shakespeare and Derrida

Shakespeare and Presentism -programme

KINGSTON SHAKESPEARE SEMINAR

UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS

SHAKESPEARE AND PRESENTISM

ROSE THEATRE KINGSTON – SATURDAY JULY 28

9.30: Registration (Rose Foyer)

10.00 (Rose Gallery): Welcome: Richard Wilson (Kingston University)

Lecture: Evelyn Gajowski (University of Nevada Las Vegas)
‘The Shakespearean Future: A History’ 

 

11.00: Coffee (Rose Café)

 

11.30 (Rose Gallery): Seminar 1: Performance

Ildiko Solti (Kingston University):
‘Theorising the bear-pit: Terence Hawkes and the present of performance’

Sarah McCourt (Royal Holloway University London):
‘Baring the Bard: Brite Theatre’s Richard III: One-Woman Show’

Annalisa Palmer (University College London):
‘Something Rotten in the State of Denmark:
King Kendrick, Prince Hamlet, and Politicized Verse’

Zorica Jelic (University of Belgrade):
‘The Future of Presentism’

 

11.30 (David Jacobs Room): Seminar 2: Identity

Dorothy Vanderford (University of Nevada Las Vegas):
‘Presentist analysis of gender and race
in two modern adaptations of Antony and Cleopatra’. 

Remedios Perni (University of Alicante):
‘Lucrece, Ophelia and all Women’s Bodies:
The Iconography of Violence in the #MeToo Era’

Will Stockton (Clemson University):
‘How Many Lovers Did Shakespeare Have?’

Kelsey Ridge (University of Birmingham):
‘Thy spirit within thee hath been so at war: Hotspur and PTSD’

13.30: Lunch

14:30 (Rose Studio): Lecture: Jyotsna Singh (Michigan State University)
‘Presentism and the Challenge of History:
Reading Race on the British Shakespearean stage’

 

15.30 (Rose Gallery): Seminar 3: Representation

Nigel Wood (Loughborough University):
‘The Dramatic Present of Twelfth Night’

Caroline Lion (University of Birmingham):
‘Peace in an Age of Reproducibility’

Richard O’Brien (University of Birmingham):
‘A New Way to Get Old Plays, or,
An Apology for Live-tweeting Philip Massinger’

15.30 (David Jacobs Room): Seminar 4: Politics

Richard Ashby (Royal Holloway University London):
‘Retailed to all Posterity:
Post-Truth, Oral History and the Popular Voice in Richard III’

Miguel Ramalhete Gomes (University of Lisbon):
‘Learned Goths and Roman Exports:
Titus Andronicus and Presentism in the 2010s’

Christian Smith (Kingston University):
‘A New Imperative for Shakespeare Studies: From Presentism to Activism’

17.00: Tea (Rose Café)

17.30 (Rose Studio): Lecture: Avraham Oz (University of Haifa)
‘Nomadic Shylock: Nationhood and Its Subversion in The Merchant of Venice’

18.30: Drinks reception (Rose Café) hosted by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas

 

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Register for this free event at the Rose Theatre Kingston

24-26 High Street, Kingston-upon-Thames, KT1 1HL

Box Office (10.00 – 18.00) 020 8174 0090 / rosetheatrekingston.org

CFP: Barton, Hall and Shakespeare, Sept 7-8, 2018

BARTON, HALL AND SHAKESPEARE

ROSE THEATRE KINGSTON-UPON-THAMES

SEPTEMBER 7 / 8 2018

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Kingston Shakespeare Seminar and British Shakespeare Association announce a conference to celebrate and explore the work of John Barton and Peter Hall, focused on their productions of Shakespeare. The aim of this commemorative event will be to bring together theatre practitioners, scholars, critics and audience members from around the world, to reconsider the achievements of the two great Shakespeare directors. The venue will be the Shakespearean auditorium of the Rose Theatre that saw some of Peter Hall’s last productions, and John Barton’s final public appearance at Trevor Nunn’s restaging of their Wars of the Roses.

Proposals are invited for 25-minute presentations on all aspects of the lives and work of Barton and Hall, including work in film, TV and opera. Presentations will be particularly welcome on their productions in relation to the Cambridge intellectual background; Stratford institutional environment; British political context; international reception; performance practice; verse speaking; place of the text; impact on literary and theatre criticism; influence on drama teaching and training; input of composers and designers; role of the director; archival heritage; and conception of Shakespeare.

Proposals of up to 200 words, together with a brief cv., should be sent by July 31 to Professor Richard Wilson at r.wilson@kingston.ac.uk

LITTLE STARS AND GALLOPING STEEDS: SEX IN SHAKESPEARE Friday June 22 2018

KINGSTON SHAKESPEARE SEMINAR 

LITTLE STARS AND GALLOPING STEEDS

SEX IN SHAKESPEARE

Friday June 22 2018

Rose Theatre Kingston 

09.30 Registration 

10:00 Opening remarks: Christian Smith (Kingston University)

10:15 Desire
Nell McKeown (King’s College London)
‘Emilia’s Phoenix Love: Female Eroticism in The Two Noble Kinsmen’

Elena Pellone (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham)
‘“How might one do, sir, to lose it to her own liking?”: Shakespeare and the female gaze.’

Phoebe Murphy-Brown (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham)
‘Queer Theory and Cross Gender Casting in Modern Adaptations of Shakespeare’

11:35 Coffee

12:00
Jonathan Dollimore
‘Shakespeare and Sex at Sussex University’

13:00 Lunch 

14:00 Language and Form
Jerzy Limon (University of Gdańsk)
‘Visiting Netherlands: verbal and visual sexual punning
in Shakespeare and contemporary art’

Richard O’Brien (University of Birmingham)
’“No gentle chase”: Venus and Adonis in a post-Weinstein world’

15:20 Theory
Christian Smith (Kingston University)
‘Dialectical Eros, or Do Bottom and Titania have sex?’

Paul Hamilton (Kingston University)
‘The perverse dynamic and state power’

16:30 Tea

17:00
David Schalkwyk (Queen Mary University London)
‘“Ever a merry war”: Love, sex and war in Shakespeare’ 

18.00 Closing remarks: Richard Wilson (Kingston University)

 

Register for this event at the Rose Theatre

24-26 High Street, Kingston-upon-Thames

Box Office (10.00-1800) 020 8174 0090 rosetheatrekingston.org

Foucault and Shakespeare programme June 23

KINGSTON SHAKESPEARE SEMINAR AT GARRICK’S TEMPLE

SATURDAY JUNE 23 2018

FOUCAULT AND SHAKESPEARE

10.00: Chair: Richard Wilson (Kingston University)

Jonathan Dollimore
‘Foucault, Shakespeare and Cultural Materialism’

11.00: Coffee (Temple Pavilion)

11.30: Chair: David Schalkwyk (Queen Mary University London)

Kélina Gotman (King’s College University of London)
‘Foucault, Theatre, Critique’

Thomas Brockelman (Le Moyne College)
‘Foucault and Lacan Interpret Las Meninas:
On the virtues and limitations of philosophical reading’

13.00: Lunch (Bell Inn, Hampton)

14.30: Chair: Bjorn Quiring (Trinity College Dublin)

Duncan Salkeld (University of Chichester)
‘King Lear and Foucault’s History of Madness’

Jennifer Rust (Saint Louis University)
‘Of Government the Properties to Unfold:
Foucault’s Genealogy of Governmentality and Measure for Measure’

16.00: Tea (Temple Pavilion)

16.30: Chair: Howard Caygill (Kingston University)

Stuart Elden (University of Warwick)
‘Contagion in Troilus and Cressida’

17.30: Round Table Discussion

 

To register for this event go to:

https://foucaultandshakespeare.eventbrite.co.uk

CFP: Shakespeare and Presentism, July 28, 2018

KINGSTON SHAKESPEARE SEMINAR
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS

CALL FOR PAPERS

SHAKESPEARE AND PRESENTISM

at the Rose Theatre, Kingston, on Saturday July 28 2018

A decade and a half since Terence Hawkes published Shakespeare in the Present, and Helen Moore named presentism as the “new kid” on the theoretical block, and more than two decades since Hugh Grady applied the term “presentism” to Shakespeare studies in Shakespeare’s Universal Wolf, this colloquium will provide a forum for examining the richness and the variety of the ways in which presentism has come of age, its theoretical and critical development, and its continuing impact on Shakespeare and early modern English studies.

We particularly welcome papers that address the following issues: definitions and explanations of presentism; applications of presentist analysis to the texts of Shakespeare and his contemporaries; (new) meanings that presentist analysis opens up in the texts of Shakespeare and his contemporaries; (new) meanings that presentist analysis opens up in 21^st-century contexts; considerations of temporality vis-à-vis presentist thought; speaking with the living vs. speaking with the dead; distinctions between literary presentism and philosophical presentism; the Frankfurt School and presentist thought; the significance of aesthetics in presentist thought; the significance of subjectivity in presentist thought; anti-positivism vs. positivism; the relationship between presentism and new historicism; anachronizing vs. historicizing; the relationship between presentism and cultural materialism; the significance of politics in presentist thought; the role of the literary critic in presentist thought; feminist, queer, transgender, race, postcolonial, global, ecocritical, or ecofeminist theory and criticism as inherently presentist developments; the impact of presentist thought on Shakespeare in performance; the relationship between presentist analysis of Shakespeare’s texts and contemporary activism.

200-word proposals for 25-minute presentations at this free event,
together with a brief cv., should be sent by

June 29 2018 to Evelyn Gajowski:

shakespe@unlv.nevada.edu

 

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Shakespeare and Presentism CFP

Foucault and Shakespeare Symposium, June 23 [Shakespeare at the Temple]

SHAKESPEARE AT THE TEMPLE

David Garrick built his Shakespeare Temple beside the Thames at Hampton in 1755 as a place where ‘the thinkers of the world’ would meet to reflect on the plays. He hoped Voltaire would come. Now the Kingston Shakespeare Seminar is realising the great actor’s vision, with a series of symposia on Shakespeare in Philosophy. Each of these Saturday events features talks by leading philosophers and Shakespeare scholars, coffee and tea in the riverside garden designed by Capability Brown, and lunch at the historic Bell Inn.

 

On Saturday June 23 2018 the Temple symposium will be on

FOUCAULT AND SHAKESPEARE 

with participation from

Tom Brockelman, Jonathan Dollimore, Stuart Elden,

Kelina Gotman, Jennifer Rust, Duncan Salkeld

 

To register for the symposium go to:

https://foucaultandshakespeare.eventbrite.co.uk

Much Ado About Nothing: A Colloquium -programme

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING:
A COLLOQUIUM

ROSE THEATRE KINGSTON
Saturday April 21 2018

09.30 Registration

9.45: Welcome

Richard Wilson (Kingston Shakespeare Seminar)
Alison Findlay (British Shakespeare Association)

10.00: An Introduction to the Play’s Performance History

Kathryn Prince (University of Ottawa)

10.20: Panel 1: Sex and Gender

Deborah Cartmell (De Montfort University)
Sara Reimers (Royal Holloway University London)
Elizabeth Schafer: Chair (Royal Holloway University London)

10.45 Coffee

11.15: Panel 2: Family and Intergenerational Tensions

Alison Findlay: Chair (Lancaster University)
Ben Haworth (Nottingham Trent University)
Lois Potter (University of Delaware)

11.50: Panel 3: Comedy and the Watch

Kathryn Prince (University of Ottawa)
Duncan Salkeld: Chair (Chichester University)
Richard Wilson (Kingston University)

12.25: A Conversation about the Rose Production

Simon Dormandy (Director)
Mel Giedroyc (Beatrice)
John Hopkins (Benedick)
Peter Smith: Chair (Nottingham Trent University)

13.10: Lunch

14.30: Performance of Much Ado About Nothing

 

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Reserve a place at this free colloquium.

Get tickets for Much Ado About Nothing.

Event: Music and poetry for Shakespeare’s birthday (Garrick’s Temple), Friday April 20

Music and poetry for Shakespeare’s birthday 

The Lovekyn Consort presents songs and dances from the Elizabethan stage, along with Shakespeare’s sonnets and new work inspired by them by actor and poet Amy Neilson-Smith.

Zita Syme – Voice

William Summers – Renaissance Flute, Recorder

Stephen Carpenter – Renaissance Lute, Guitar

Amy Neilson-Smith – Actor; Poet

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Tickets: £12

Place:
Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, Garrick’s Lawn, Hampton Court Road
Hampton on Thames, UK
TW12 2EN

More information here.