War and Commemoration
The year of anniversaries continues. Our impressions of the lavish festivities at our major conference to mark the 150th anniversary of the German Shakespeare Society in Weimar have not yet faded, but we are also looking ahead to other days of remembrance this year, in particular the commemoration of the start of the two world wars 100 and 75 years ago.
“War and Commemoration” is the theme to which we want to devote ourselves during the Bochum Autumn Conference from November 14 to 16 in performances, lectures, discussions and workshops.
The conference’s supporting program includes productions of Othello and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Schauspielhaus Bochum, another production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf and a production of Macbeth at Prinz-Regent-Theater. We can also look forward to a dance performance by students on five of Shakespeare’s sonnets, a ‘speed dating’ with Shakespeare characters, the ‘Shakespeare slam’ “As you like it – Shakespeare retold” and, last but not least, the world premiere of Valery Voronov’s King Lear in the Auditorium Maximum of the Ruhr-Universität on 16.11.
Here you can do the flyer with the invitation, programme and registration and the president’s invitation letter.
The autumn conference also forms the ending to the four weeks of the Bochum Shakespeare Weeks (Programme). They were organized on the occasion of William Shakespeare’s 450th birthday by members of the English Department of the Ruhr University Bochum together with representatives of the city of Bochum and comprise an impressive range of events. The festival has succeeded in bringing together a large number of partner institutions as well as more than 30 artists and cultural institutions, who will creatively dedicate themselves to the life and work of Shakespeare at various locations in and around Bochum from October 18 to November 16 and will certainly find a broad resonance beyond Bochum.
More information can be found via (www.shakespearewochenbochum.org) and the Facebook page (www.facebook.com/shakespearewochenbochum).