MLitt/MFA 2013 Thesis Project Festival

Presented by Mary Baldwin College’s MLitt/MFA program in Shakespeare and Performance in partnership with the American Shakespeare Center

Monday, February 18th, 2012: 12:30pm-8:15pm

Blackfriars Playhouse

The public is cordially invited to join MBC graduate students for an entertaining and enlightening festival of creative research and performance at the Blackfriars Playhouse.

The festival will include twenty-three Master of Letters and Master of Fine Arts presentations across four sessions, which combine scholarship and stagecraft to explore the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

Presented by Mary Baldwin College’s MLitt/MFA program in Shakespeare and Performance in partnership with the American Shakespeare Center

Admission is free and seating is open to the general public.

Schedule of Events

Session 1: 12:30pm - 2:30pm

12:30 – 1 pm: Melissa Johnson
“I Fear My Lord Hath Forgot Britain”: Themes of Nationality and Historicity in Shakespeare's Cymbeline

1 – 1:30 pm: Cyndi Kimmel
Theatrical Translation and Adaptation as Transculturation

1:30 – 2 pm: Angel Valentine
Supernatural Sex in Shakespeare

2 – 2:30 pm: Celi Oliveto
Painted Poetry: Exploring the Conversation between Modern Casting Practices and Shakespeare's Illustrated Tradition

COFFEE BREAK: 2:30 - 2:55 pm

Session 2: 3:00pm - 5pm

3:00 – 3:30pm Stephanie Howieson
"Heaven Mend All": Restorative Theology in Shakespeare's Tragicomedies

3:30 – 4 pm: Jessica Schiermeister
Play Boys: The Coming of Age for the Elizabethan Boy Actor, the All-Male Stage, and Pre-Restoration Female Performance

4 – 4:30 pm: Rebecca Hodder
“Not Like a Woman”: An Examination of Alternative Casting Practices

4:30 – 5 pm: Dane C.T. Leasure
Call for Inclusion: Giving a Home to the Plays in the Shakespeare Apocrypha

DINNER BREAK: 5:00 – 6:15 pm

Session 3: 6:15pm - 8:15pm

6:15 – 6:45 pm: Julia Nelson
“Interloquutions with the Audients”: Participatory Performance in Modern and Early Modern Theatre

6:45 – 7:15 pm: Kayla Renee Peterson
Concept Shakespeare: Setting Twelfth Night in WWII

7:15 – 7:45 pm: Charlene V. Smith
Margaret on the Modern Stage

7:45 – 8:15 pm: Kelly Elliott
In Defense of Clowns

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