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The Opalescent World of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (5 Classes in FEB)

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THE OPALESCENT WORLD OF SHAKESPEARE’S TWELFTH NIGHT

Discover the joys of one of Shakespeare’s most successful comedies, Twelfth Night, or What You Will. The only play with two tantalizing titles suggests the important role an audience takes in the production. Learn how to be a good audience for this most “opalescent” play. In five sessions we will explore the theatrical qualities that have made this play a playable delight since February 2, 1601 right up through the Guthrie’s last live performance this past year.

Dates February 9, 11, 16, 18, 23
Total Number of Classes 5
Time of the Class 9:30AM – 11AM
Skill Level (ALL) All Skill Levels
Age Range Adult (Age 16+)
Minimum # of Students 4
Maximum # of Students 12
Registration Deadline Date February 7
Class Location Your own home or office space
ACCC NONMEMBER Class Registration Fee $65.00
ACCC MEMBER Class Registration Fee (10% discount) $58.50
Material Details Have available any good, relatively modern edition of Twelfth Night, preferably one with good notes

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Instructor: Walter Cannon
641-295-9025
cannonw@central.edu

Walter Cannon Walter W. Cannon is Professor of English Emeritus at Central College in Pella, Iowa where he taught early modern literature including Shakespeare and his contemporaries and a variety of writing courses. His reviews and essays have appeared in The Upstart Crow, Theater History Studies, Cahiers Elisabethains, and Inside Shakespeare: Essays on the Blackfriar’s Stage. He is co-editor with Laury Magnus of Who Hears in Shakespeare?: Auditory Worlds on Stage and Screen, (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2012) and Shakespeare’s Auditory Worlds: Hearing and Staging Practices, Then and Now (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2020).

 

The Opalescent World of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night

Arts Consortium of Carver County

Shakespeare’s Audiences: Then & Now

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Shakespeare’s Audiences: Then & Now

A Shakespeare play is not really understood unless we can experience the give and take of an audience surrounding actors playing seriously with the script. The scripts that Shakespeare wrote included the audience in the performance, but that significant element has been left out of most modern performances which remove the audience to a darkened space where they can…sleep, instead of listen and respond.  Walter Cannon will discuss a number of places in a number of plays wherein the audience is built into the script, where the plays really make no sense without the audience.

LOCATION
Virtual

MAX NUMBER OF ATTENDEES
20 max

DATE
November 10, 2020

TIME
7:00pm

DEADLINE
Register by November 8, 2020

DETAILS
Walter Cannon, Professor Emeritus of Central College, will talk about Shakespeare’s Audiences:  Then and Now. He will discuss how Shakespeare expected the audiences of his plays to be involved, unlike the way in which the audiences sit away from the stage in the dark these days.  If you are a fan of Shakespeare, you will want to hear this talk.  You may register for the event by emailing literary@artsofcarvercounty.org no later than November 8, 2020.  The Zoom link will be sent out to those who register.  The talk is designed for all who love Shakespeare, whether you are now a student or if you are an older lover of Shakespeare. Please join us for this event and invite your friends to participate also. Professor Cannon will answer questions after his talk.

FEE
Free

CONTACT
Amy Stender
literary@artsofcarvercounty.org
651-434-2249