Hello everyone – Liz Bernardo, Mary Baldwin first-year student and OCS Marketing Intern, here to blog the first session this morning. This Wake Up Workshop is on cue scripts with OCS Education Artist, Mary Baldwin College MFA student, and member of Sweet Wag Shakespeare Patrick Harris at the Blackfriars Playhouse. Live blogging of this session runs from eight … Continue reading
It’s IP week here with OCS Education! Since 2012, we have hosted an annual leadership training event for International Paper, a truly massive corporation producing paper goods of all kinds and total ubiquity — chances are good there’s an IP product within your arm’s reach at this very moment! One of the most rewarding components … Continue reading
It simply wouldn’t be mid-March if I weren’t blogging about Julius Caesar. In past years, I’ve discussed the rhetoric, the blood, and the enduring legacy. Today, I want to talk about how one scene in the play — Caesar’s assassination — exemplifies Shakespeare’s mastery of early modern technology. In the past couple of years, 3.1 of Julius … Continue reading
Wednesday, 10/28 Wake-Up Workshop: Cue Scripts Colloquy I: Audience and the Actor Colloquy II: History Plays Colloquy III: Cultural Appropriation Colloquy IV: Bilingual Shakespeare Colloquy V: Asides and Villiany Colloquy VI: Shakespeare’s Life and Times: Contributing Context Welcome and Keynote Address: Paul Prescott: The Life, Adventures, and Opinions of Sam Wanamaker Plenary I: Lars Engle, … Continue reading
This is Merlyn Q. Sell blogging Colloquy Session XVIII from the Blue Ridge Room at the Stonewall Jackson Hotel running from 9-10:15am. This session is chaired by Bryan Herek. The presenters are Jim Casey, Annalisa Castaldo, Sarah Enloe, Fiona Harris-Ramsby, Kate McPherson, and Rhonda Knight. Before the session formally starts the presenters are engaged in … Continue reading
Good afternoon, Liz here to live blog Paper Session X! This blog will be updated live from one to two fifteen this afternoon. The moderator of this session is Ann Jennalie Cook of Vanderbilt University. This plenary includes presentations by Maryam Zomorodian of the University of Notre Dame, Katherine Mayberry of Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company and … Continue reading
This morning’s Wake-up Workshop covered the topic, Textual Variants, and attendees included professional actors, teachers and professors.. Kayla Blue is an as an Education Artist with the OCS . She began the workshop by explaining how Early Modern texts are “alive and constantly changing.” Printers, editors and even booksellers and academics manipulate the plays into a … Continue reading
Today’s Lunch and Learn session, Meet and Drink with Mary Baldwin College Shakespeare & Performance hosts, all of whom are S&P instructors: Dr. Ralph Alan Cohen, Dr. Paul Menzer, Professor Doreen Bechtol, Dr. Matt Davies, and Professor Janna Segal. Dr. Menzer, director of the program, opened the session by mentioning the opportunity for prospective students to attend the MBC … Continue reading
In November, I read a blog post by Mike Godsey, a California teacher who became so frustrated by teaching Shakespeare to his students that he decided to ditch the world’s most prolific playwright, structuring his English class instead around Serial, the recent hit podcast spinoff of NPR’s This American Life. Serial is a 12-part podcast … Continue reading
Sarah Blackwell: “Turning Sonnet: Performing Lyric Poetry” Actors: Josh Brown, Molly Harper, Jamie Jager, Sara Vazquez Blackwell opens with the sonnet she wrote for Ralph Cohen’s “Language of the Performance” class, performed by her four actors, structured so that the audience could “visually and aurally experience” the argument of the sonnet. Though she did not … Continue reading