Prospero, Caliban, Ariel, Miranda Playing for Free


Ryerson University, downtown Toronto 1-2 February 2018

A two-day workshop on The Tempest, the histories of conversion and slavery, and Shakespeare’s theatre of freedom that culminates with an evening of theatrical and scholarly presentations, 7PM, 2 February. A collaboration of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, the Ryerson School of Performance, and the Early Modern Conversions Project (McGill University).

The Enchanted Island Before the Cell of Prospero
Artist: Henry Fuseli (Swiss, Zürich 1741–1825 London)
Engraver: Peter Simon (British, London ca. 1764–1813 Paris)

 

Members of the Workshop

Actors

Ben Carlson…………..Prospero

Deborah Hay………….Ariel

Ruby Joy………………Miranda

Antoine Yared…………Caliban

Bogdan Markov………Ferdinand

Aidan Gouvela………..Stephano

Deivan Steele…………Trinculo

Scholars

Patricia Badir

Marie-Claude Felton

Hannah Korell

Noam Lior

Elizabeth Pentland (Friday only)

 

Organizers

Lois Adamson

Peggy Shannon

Paul Yachnin

 

Director

James Wallis (Friday only)

Schedule of work—all sessions in the Studio Theatre at Ryerson, enter at 345 Yonge Street, Toronto (corner Yonge & Gould)

Thursday, 1 Feb
12:30PM-6:00PM
everyone together (coffee break at 3:30; note that we can’t provide or have food in the Studio Theatre, so please grab lunch before the start of the workshop)

 

Friday, 2 Feb
9:30AM-12:30PM
all working together

12:30PM-2:00PM
lunch (everyone on their own)

2:00PM-5:00PM
actors and scholars work in separate groups to prepare for performance

5:00PM-6:30PM
dinner on your own

6:30PM
call

7:00PM-10:00PM
presentations of scenes from The Tempest interwoven with three-minute scholarly presentations

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