- DURATION 60 mins
Event Description
Thursday 6th April - The Winter's Tale
Come and join Claire Cartwright (Founder of Friends with Shakespeare) for an introduction to The Winter's Tale. This is brilliant and very unusual play that takes the audience from a chilly winter tragedy into the bright summery comedy - the perfect play to read in the spring! Come and find out what makes this the favourite Shakespeare play of lots of scholars, actors and directors alike. This will be a 50 minute talk on the play, followed by a 10 minute Q&A session
Wednesday 12th April - The Tempest
Continuing the Shakespeare sessions with Friends with Shakespeare founder, Claire Cartwright, we are diving into The Tempest. Thought to be Shakespeare's final solo play, The Tempest is a triumph of dramatic invention, laughter, philosophy and spectacle. Come and get (re)acquainted! This will be a 50 minute talk on the play, followed by a 10 minute Q&A session.
- Duration: 60 mins
- Online Zoom event: Join from your computer, phone or tablet (no replay available)
Meet the Host, Claire
Claire Cartwright, founder of Friends with Shakespeare, is an actress, writer, producer and tutor. She focused on Shakespeare during her English Literature degree at Edinburgh University and continued this focus while training as an actress at ALRA. Claire has been teaching Shakespeare to both students and adults for over 10 years.
She has played a number of Shakespeare’s leading ladies in London and around the world, including Portia (The Merchant of Venice), Lady Macbeth - twice…best not read too much into that! (Macbeth), Hermione (A Winter’s Tale), Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing) and Peaseblossom … indisputably the leading fairy, if not the leading lady! (A Midsummer Night’s Dream).
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