Daily Archives: 19 April 2016

World Shakespeare Conference 2016 – Registration Closes on 1 May

There are now less than two weeks until Congress registration closes on Sunday 1 May 2016. If you, your friends or colleagues are planning to attend and have not yet registered, we would encourage you to do so as soon as possible.

After Sunday 1 May 2016, it will not be possible to register for the Congress.

Congress registration includes:

  • Attendance to both of the Congress Welcome Receptions
  • Entry to Plenary Sessions in both Stratford-upon-Avon and London
  • Entry to Panel Sessions in both Stratford-upon-Avon and London
  • Participation in one seminar in either Stratford-upon-Avon or London (registration required)
  • Participation in workshops (subject to registration, spaces are limited)

Plus:

  • A WSC 2016 welcome pack
  • A space on a coach for travel from Stratford-upon-Avon to London on Thursday 4 August 2016

For further information and to register, please visit: www.wsc2016.info

Please note: delegates are not able to participate in any part of the Congress without registering for the full event.

Perth Symphonic Chorus: Shakespeare 400th Commemoration

Shakespeare 400th Commemoration
Perth Symphonic Chorus

Date: 24 April, 2016
Time: 3:00pm-5:00pm
Venue: Government House Ballroom, 25 St Georges Terrace, Perth, WA
Tickets: Tickets from $63 from www.ticketek.com.au (13 28 49)

Honour Shakespeare in this weekend of the 400th commemoration of his death day, April 23rd 1616, in a concert of beautiful selections of famous Shakespearean readings and choral and orchestral settings of his texts.

From Rutter’s colourful cantata When Icicles Hang through the lush settings of Vaughan Williams’ In Windsor Forest for choir and orchestra as well as his exquisitely ethereal Lark Ascending with soloist Paul Wright, the concert encompasses old texts in a variety of delightful musical forms.

Guest soprano Katja Webb from the W.A. Opera Company further enhances the concert with well-known Shakespeare songs such as Where The Bee Sucks There Suck I and Who Is Sylvia?.

With costumed actors reading excerpts relevant to the music from Shakespeare sonnet collection and famous plays such as Twelfth Night, Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, Taming of the Shrew etc. this will be a once in a lifetime experience for us all on this most auspicious weekend.

Download the programme/flyer.

Shakespeare on Screen – Film Festival @ GOMA Brisbane

Shakespeare on Screen
22 Apr 2016 – 25 May 2016 | GOMA | Cinema A
Free

‘Shakespeare on Screen’ celebrates the timeless power of William Shakespeare, the most frequently adapted author in cinema history. Commemorating the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s death, this program is a taste of the breadth and dynamism with which filmmakers have transmuted his plays from stage to screen. It brings together a mixture of traditional adaptations and creative reinventions, along with films that look at both the performance and the performers of the texts themselves. From The Tempest in outer space (Forbidden Planet 1956) to Othello in a London jazz club (All Night Long 1962), Shakespeare’s work onscreen is restricted by neither genre nor setting — only the ingenuity of the adaptation.

For a full list of films and screening dates/times, please visit: https://www.qagoma.qld.gov.au/whats-on/cinema/programs/shakespeare-on-screen