The Shakespeare Society continues its 2012-2013 season with
a third Shakespeare Talks event, “Shakespeare’s Imagery.”
This event will feature a lively conversation and audience
Q&A session with Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library
Michael Witmore and visionary stage and screen director
Julie Taymor for a fascinating conversation about
Shakespeare's imagery - both the poetic figures within the
characters' language and the striking and powerful stage
pictures created in live performance. Complimentary wine
will be served afterwards.
Shakespeare Talks is a new series of intimate events, aimed
at opening up the conversation about Shakespeare with the
audience and colleagues in the theatrical, academic, and
educational fields. A more interactive evening, the onstage
conversations will lead to a question and answer session
with the audience and feature a post show reception with the
participants. The Shakespeare Talks series is in partnership
with The Pearl Theatre Company.
Ticket information for Shakespeare Talks
Tickets are $18 for Public & $15 for Shakespeare Society
Members & The Pearl Theatre Company Subscribers
To purchase tickets, visit
https://pearltheatre.secure.force.com/ticket#sections_a0Fd0000008F2DQEA0
or call (212) 563.9261.
Venue:
The Pearl Theatre – 555 West 42nd St. (at 11th Avenue)
Shakespeare Society Members receive FREE tickets to all
Major Evening Events and discounts to all other events. To
become a member, please contact L. Michelle Palmour at
212-967-6802 or email
members@shakespearesociety.org . For additional
information or to purchase tickets to all other events,
please visit
www.shakespearesociety.org .
The Shakespeare Society is a non-profit organization
dedicated to increasing the enjoyment, understanding, and
appreciation of William Shakespeare’s works through
performance, commentary, and educational activities. A
portion of the Society’s membership dollars is used to
support educational activities in New York City Schools.
This season, the Shakespeare Society enters its sixth year
of partnering with the Hunts Points Alliance for Children on
the Children’s Shakespeare Ensemble, which culminates with a
performance in the spring. Shakespeare in Schools is the
Society’s education program that brings Teaching Artists
into New York City pubic schools to integrate students’
study of Shakespeare with performance. The newly formed
Shakespeare Roundtable invites educators from across the
city to come together and share ideas and pool resources, as
well as seek new ways to serve students and teachers in the
city.
Shakespeare Society Members support the organization’s
educational activities while enjoying a range of benefits,
including complimentary tickets to all 5 Major Evening
Events, discount and/or priority bookings to local
Shakespeare productions, and access to Society exclusive
classes. To become a member, visit
www.shakespearesociety.org or contact L. Michelle
Palmour at (212) 967-6802,
mpalmour@shakespearesociety.org .
The Pearl Theatre Company connects audiences to great plays.
Dedicated to bringing the classics of world theatre to a
wide audience, The Pearl plays a vital role in the cultural
life of New York City and its surrounding region by creating
productions that explore and illuminate the human condition.
The Pearl is an artistic home for a diverse company of
theatre professionals, especially a core company of resident
actors.
BIOGRAPHIES
Julie Taymor is a Tony Award-winning and Academy
Award-nominated director whose imaginative and provocative
work can be seen in productions ranging from musicals and
plays to operas and films. Taymor’s credits include
Broadway’s Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark and the all-time
highest grossing musical, The Lion King. Operas include
Oedipus Rex, with Jessye Norman, for the Saito Kinen
Orchestra, The Flying Dutchman for the Los Angeles Opera,
Salome for the Kirov Opera, The Magic Flute at the
Metropolitan Opera; and Grendel, composed by Elliot
Goldenthal for the Los Angeles Opera. Film credits include
Titus, starring Anthony Hopkins; Frida, which earned six
Oscar nominations; Across the Universe, Golden Globe nominee
for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy; and The
Tempest, starring Helen Mirren. Taymor is a recipient of the
1991 MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship.
Michael Witmore became Director of the Folger Shakespeare
Library on July 1, 2011. He was formerly Professor of
English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and he has
served as Associate Professor of English and Assistant
Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University. The
recipient of numerous fellowships, he has held an Andrew
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of
California, Los Angeles, a research fellowship and a
curatorial residency fellowship at the Folger, and a
predoctoral fellowship at the Max-Planck-Institut für
Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Berlin. Dr. Witmore earned an A.B.
in English at Vassar College, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in
rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. Among
his more recent projects, he launched the Working Group for
Digital Inquiry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and
organized the Pittsburgh Consortium for Medieval and
Renaissance Studies. His publications include numerous
articles, website resources, and book chapters, and he has
published five books: Landscapes of the Passing Strange:
Reflections from Shakespeare, with Rosamond Purcell (2010),
Shakespearean Metaphysics (2009), Pretty Creatures: Children
and Fiction in the English Renaissance (2007), Childhood and
Children’s Books in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1800 (2006),
and Culture of Accidents: Unexpected Knowledges in Early
Modern England (2001).
*All programming and artists subject to change based on
availability.
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