SHAKESPEARE FIRST FOLIO IN ARIZONA PROFESSIONAL

Ph.D., City University of New York Graduate DesRochers is an Associate Professor of Theatre at LIU Post, and an Associate Artist at the PlayPenn New Play Development Conference. M.F.A., University of Massachusetts Amherst He will also reference the First Folio as a contemporary tool for actors and directors of Shakespeare in performance. He will look as Shakespeare as a theater practitioner who worked in collaboration with fellow playwrights, actors, and producers in order to examine the Shakespeare’s plays as performance texts.

SHAKESPEARE FIRST FOLIO IN ARIZONA PROFESSIONAL

How the First Folio was used in a professional setting for rehearsals will be discussed with anecdotal and research materials used for the productions considered. He will use a production of Othello featuring Liev Schreiber as Iago and Keith David as Othello, directed by Doug Hughes, in addition to the Old Globe Theater’s production of Richard II featuring Brian Bedford and directed by Joseph Hardy, for which he served as dramaturg and associate producer. His approach will be to contextualize the plays of Shakespeare as popular performance during the Elizabethan period, and how this translates to contemporary productions. DesRochers has served as the literary manager and dramaturg for the Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival, and has worked with directors, actors, and designers on many of Shakespeare’s plays both for the Central Park shows at the Delacorte Theater as well as The Public’s downtown theater in Astor Place. Lecture by Professor Rick DesRochers, PhD. Shakespeare as Popular Entertainer: Elizabethan Stage Practice and the First Folio as Performance Text

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