Shakespeare 400 Years After: A Public Event
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- Date/Time (Multi-Day Event)
- 04/13/2016 9:00 AM EST - 11:30 PM EST
- Location
- Multiple Locations
- Fee
- Varies
- Description
- Shakespeare 400 Years After: A Public Event April 13 – 20 April 2016 marks the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death. Shakespeare remains an unshakeable presence today, deployed in the rhetoric of global politics as well as in the common language of everyday life. Shakespeare’s world is indelibly etched in the historically rich area of Virginia. For this occasion, Old Dominion University presents a weeklong, campus-wide, city-wide, multifaceted event celebrating the idea of “Shakespeare 400 Years After.” The event hosts a rich exploration of the varied contradictory meanings of a pervasive cultural icon in the material practices of contemporary life. Programming includes academic deliberations in an international conference with leading scholars of Shakespeare, full length theatrical productions, a documentary film on the surviving Elizabethan traces in Hampton Roads and its immediate environs, historical exhibits, art and music presentations, readings by noted poets and literary personalities, and more. This event is made possible through our generous sponsors and partners: Historic Jamestowne and Preservation Virginia, Norfolk Sister City Alliance (with Norfolk, UK), Agecroft Hall, Richmond, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Performing troupes across Virginia, Various contributing units at Old Dominion University, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Fort Raleigh, Roanoke Island, Guineamen Community, Gloucester Country, Virginia. Preliminary events: April 6 – 9, 7:30 p.m. “Titus Andronicus”, written by William Shakespeare, adapted and directed by Lee Smith and Katherine Hammond, performed by Warehouse of Theatre and ODURep. Tickets: $15 Students and General Admission at 683-5305. Goode Theatre.April 11 Norfolk Chamber Consort: Shakespeare Now directed by Andrey Kasparov and Oksana Lutsyshyn. Works and arrangements by Igor Stravinsky, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Erich Korngold as well as premieres of works by Andrey Kasparov and Mark Chambers. Preconcert discussion by Andrey Kasparov at 7:15 p.m. Tickets: $10 Student, $25 General Admission at the door. Chandler Recital Hall, Diehn Center for the Performing Arts.
