Montgomery College’s Arts Institute, Department of Speech, Dance, and Theatre and

Department of English Composition, Literature, and Professional Writing present

WILLPOWER!

A weeklong festival of master classes, performances, lectures, and workshops

that celebrate the world of William Shakespeare!!!

*M A R C H 24th -2 8th , 2 0 08*

Rockville Campus

Monday, March 24th

12:00 –12:40 p.m. Opening Ceremonies (Humanities Amphitheatre  rain location: Theatre Arts arena)

1:00 – 1:50 p.m.Lecture “Our lances are like straws”: Irony, Rhetoric, and The Taming of the Shrew”

(Dr. Mike Eckert)(TA Arena)

7:30 – 10:00 p.m. PERFORMANCETHE TAMING OF THE SHREW(AmericanShakespeareCenter)

(TA Arena)

Tuesday, March 25th

9:30 – 10:45 a.m.Workshop “Shakespeare on Your Feet”(ASC)(TA Arena)

11:00 – 12:15 p.m. Lecture  “Structure of the Verse” (Ms. Becky Kemper, Maryland Shakespeare Festival)

(TA Arena)

12:30 – 1:45 p.m. Adrian Webber Memorial Lecture –""If you prick us do we not bleed?" The complexity of Shakespeare's Shylock" (Dr. Katherine Aron-Beller, GeorgeWashingtonUniversity) (TA Arena)

Wednesday, March 26th

10:00 – 10:50 a.m. Workshop  “’Sound and Fury’: Exploring Shakespeare’s Text through Sound and

Movement”(Prof. Sasha Olinick)(TA 148)

11:00 – 11:50 a.m. Workshop “The Taming of the Shrew: ‘If she and I be pleased, what’s that to

you?’”(ASC)(TA 148)

1:00 – 2:15 p.m.Workshop  “Directing Shakespeare” (ASC)(TA 148)

7:30 – 10:00 p.m. PERFORMANCETHE MERCHANT OF VENICE(ASC)(TA Arena)

Thursday, March 27th

9:30 – 10:45 a.m.Workshop “Marriage and other ‘Binding’ Contracts in Shakespeare’s Comedies”

(Prof. Andrew Borthwick-Leslie, TempleUniversity)(TA Arena)

11:00 – 12:15 p.m.Workshop  “‘Suit the action to the word, the word to the action’: Acting Shakespeare”

(Prof. Andrew Borthwick-Leslie, TempleUniversity)(TA Arena)

2:00 – 3:15 p.m. Workshop “’Sound and Fury’: Exploring Shakespeare’s Text through Sound and

Movement”(Profs. Sasha Olinick) (TA Arena)

Friday, March 28th

10:00 – 10:50 a.m.Lecture/Demo “Blood & Bile with the Bard: Elizabethan Beliefs on Health and Balance as Shown in the Plays of William Shakespeare”(Prof R. Scott Hengen) (TA Arena)

11:00-11:50 p. m.Workshop “Stage Combat: Fisticuffs with Lewis Shaw” (Baltimore Shakespeare Festival)

(TA Arena)

6:30 – 9:30 p.m. THEATRECAFÉ!  A Renaissance banquet and a screening of the film STAGE BEAUTY (2004),with Mistress of Revels Ms. Cam Magee of the Folger Shakespeare Library

(TA Arena). Cost: $15.00 per person. Reservation required. To reserve a space or

obtain information contact , or call 240.567.4008.

Takoma Park Campus

Tuesday, March25th

1:00 – 2:15 a.m.Workshop “’Sound and Fury’: Exploring Shakespeare’s Text through Sound and

Movement”(Prof. Sasha Olinick) (Black Box Theatre)

Thursday, March 27th

9:30 – 10:15 a.m. Lecture/Demo  “Structure of the Verse” (Ms. Kemper, Maryland Shakespeare Festival)

(Black Box Theatre)

Germantown Campus

Wednesday, March 26th

1:00 – 2:15 p.m. Workshop “’Sound and Fury’: Exploring Shakespeare’s Text through Sound and

Movement”(Prof. Sasha Olinick) (HT 122)

Friday, March 28th

12:00 – 12:50 p.m. Lecture/Demo  “Blood & Bile with the Bard: Elizabethan Beliefs on Health and Balance as Shown in the Plays of William Shakespeare” (Prof. R. Scott Hengen) (HT 122)

E V E N T S A R E F R E E A N D O P E N T O T H E P U B L I C*

*One event, the TheatreCafé on 3/28, costs $15 and requires a reservation.

For information about the TheatreCafé, contact .

For more information concerning WILLPOWER! or MontgomeryCollege’s Theatre Program (Rockville)

please visit call 240.567.4001.

For persons requiring special accommodations please visit or call 240.567.5250

Support for WILLPOWER was generously provided by The Webber Family Foundation.

Additional support was provided by the Fine, Performing, and Visual Arts and the Humanities.