Free one-day event at Garrick’s Temple to Shakepeare, Hampton, London

11:00 Julia Ng (Goldsmiths, U of London), ‘Unnatural Means: Max Reinhardt’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the Dialectical Task of Becoming Unromantic’

11:45  coffee break

12:15  Jessica Chiba (Birmingham), ’This is not [Shakespeare], he’s some other where: absent presence in Shakespeare films’

1:00  lunch (The Bell Inn)

2:00  Paul Kottman (The New School), ‘Churches, theaters, museums, shopping malls, subways and buses: Rohmer and Shakespeare’

2:45  Inma Sánchez García (Edinburgh), ‘Exit Romeo: Queer Temporalities and the Contemporary LGBTQ Romeo and Juliet Short Film’

3:30  tea break

4:00  Mark Burnett (Queen’s University Belfast), ‘Shakespeare / Cinema / Asia: Encounters Across Time and Space’

5:00  Roundtable

5:30  end

The event is free but reserving a place is necessary. Please reserve your place by Tuesday Aug 22, to ensure you get the complementary finger buffet lunch at the Bell Inn.

Book here: https://shakespeareandfilm.eventbrite.co.uk

The same evening at Garrick’s Temple there is a concert of sixteenth-century French and Spanish songs and fantasias for flute/recorder and vihuela (a Spanish lute). Tickets for the concert.

How to get there.

Cover image: Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer in George Cukor’s Romeo and Juliet (1936; Folger Shakespeare library. CC BY-SA 4.0).