Theatre Workshop: Gesture on the Shakespearean Stage

farah karim cooper

With Professor Farah Karim-Cooper

Theatre Workshop: Gesture on the Shakespearean Stage

Friday 11 November 2022, 14:00-16:00 | Lecture Theatre 2, St Cross Building, English Faculty, Manor Road, Oxford, OX1 3UL

Please note this session will be run for students (undergraduate and postgraduate) and teaching staff only.

Registration is required due to limited spaces: Register here

 

Workshop with TORCH Humanities Cultural Programme Visiting Fellow, Professor Farah Karim-Cooper, and practitioners from Shakespeare’s Globe. This session is available to students (undergraduate and postgraduate) and those who teach or convene relevant Faculty courses.

This workshop will explore the dynamic relationship between performance, identity, the body and early modern drama.  It will begin with a brief talk on the cultural history and psychology of manual gesture, exploring how Shakespeare and his contemporaries demonstrate an acute awareness of the performative capacities of the hand.  Practitioners from Shakespeare’s Globe will then ask participants to consider in practical ways how their bodies make meaning and how gesture in particular forms part of the dramaturgy and narrative structure of dramatic texts.

Please register to attend: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/400021022647

This event is supported by TORCH as part of the Humanities Cultural Programme.

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Professor Farah Karim-Cooper (Professor of Shakespeare Studies, King’s College London and Co-Director of Education at Shakespeare’s Globe) is hosted by Professor Nandini Das (Professor of Early Modern English Literature and Culture at Oxford University) as a current Visiting Fellow, supported by TORCH as part of the Humanities Cultural Programme.

During her year-long Fellowship, Professor Karim-Cooper will lead two internal workshops in 2022, and deliver a public lecture in 2023. 

  • The first workshop ‘What is Globe Performance Practice’ took place during Trinity term, in May 2022.                                                                                    
  • The second workshop ‘Gesture on the Shakespearean Stage’ will take place during Michaelmas term: 11 November 2022, at St Cross Building (Manor Road, Oxford). 
  • The spring public lecture – ‘Staging Race in Shakespeare’s Theatres’ – will take place in Hilary term: 26 April 2023, at the Fitzhugh Auditorium (Cohen Quad: Walton Street, Oxford).