UC Shakespeare Seminars
Ask "Why the Tempest"?
Date: Oct. 12, 2001
By: Marianne Kunnen-Jones
Phone: (513) 556-1826
Photo By: Mark Lyons
Archive: Campus News
Tying into the College-Conservatory of Music's presentation of "The Tempest," University of Cincinnati's Helen Weinberger Center for the Study of Drama and Playwriting is offering two Shakespeare events this month. Both are open to the public, and one will be of special interest to local teachers.
Shakespearean themes continue to make for popular movies and theater. He also has much to teach us in these days of racial tension and war, believes Norma Jenckes, Weinberger Center director. "Even 400 years after Shakespeare wrote his plays, we can use his works as a way to look at conflict in contemporary society. Instead of avoiding a discussion about conflicts, you can use a great work of literature to get a lens on what is happening today," said Jenckes.
The Weinberger Center events are free.
CCM PRODUCTION:
Oct. 24-28. Tickets: (513) 556-4183.
DIRECTORS' ROUNDTABLE
"WHY THE TEMPEST IN CINCINNATI NOW?"
(Open to the public)
- Wednesday, Oct. 24
- 3:00 -5:00 p.m.
- Room 127, McMicken
Scheduled panelists include Michael Burnham (CCM associate professor and director of CCM's production of "The Tempest"), Nick Korn (artistic director of Stage First), and Jasson Minadakis (of Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival). All have or are working on productions of this play. For information, call Norma Jenckes, (513) 556-3914.
MASTER CLASS
"TEACHING THE CONFLICTS IN SHAKESPEARE"
(Of special interest to Greater Cincinnati high school teachers, students and professors and all who have an interest in Shakespeare. Open to the public)
- Thursday, Oct. 25
- 3:30 p.m.
- Room 127, McMicken
Culture theorist Gerald Graff of the University of Illinois at Chicago will lead this class. He has written extensively on teaching the conflicts in literature, especially "The Tempest," to high school students. For information, call Norma Jenckes, (513) 556-3914.
The Helen Weinberger Center for the Study of Drama and Playwriting, a collaboration of the Department of English in UC's McMicken College Arts and Sciences and the College-Conservatory of Music, was launched in 1990. Through its efforts, prominent playwrights -- including Edward Albee, Lee Blessing and Michael Weller -- have been attracted to work in Cincinnati theater, and international luminaries, such as Athol Fugard and Wole Soyinka, have visited here. Center activities are funded by an endowment from Helen Weinberger, a Cincinnati philanthropist and lover of drama.
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