will power festival 2008

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 2 4th - 2 8th , 2 0 0 8*
Piercing Eloquence Tour

Rockville Campus
(All Rockville events will be held in the Theatre Arts Arena)

Monday, March 24th
12:00 –12:40 p.m.      Opening Ceremonies (Humanities Amphitheatre à rain location: Theatre Arts arena)
1:00 – 1:50 p.m.          Lecture à “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 à THE TAMING OF THE SHREW (American Shakespeare Center)
                                               (TA Arena)

Tuesday, March 25th
9:30 – 10:45 a.m.        Workshop à “Shakespeare on Your Feet”(ASC)(TA Arena)
11:00 – 12:15 p.m.     Lecture à “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, George Washington University)                                             (TA Arena)

Wednesday, March 26th
10:00 – 10:50 a.m.      Workshop à “’Sound and Fury’: Exploring Shakespeare’s Text
                                                                      through Sound and Movement”(Prof. Sasha Olinick)(TA 148)
11:00 – 11:50 a.m.      Workshop à “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 à “Directing Shakespeare” (ASC)(TA 148)
7:30 – 10:00 p.m.       PERFORMANCE à THE MERCHANT OF VENICE (ASC)(TA Arena)

Thursday, March 27th
9:30 – 10:45 a.m.        Workshop à “Marriage and other ‘Binding’ Contracts in Shakespeare’s Comedies”
                                                 (Prof. Andrew Borthwick-Leslie, Temple University) (TA Arena)
11:00 – 12:15 p.m.      Workshop à “‘Suit the action to the word, the word to the action’: Acting Shakespeare”
                                                  (Prof. Andrew Borthwick-Leslie, Temple University)(TA Arena)
2:00 – 3:15 p.m.          Workshop à “’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 à “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 à “Stage Combat: Fisticuffs with Lewis Shaw” (Baltimore Shakespeare Festival)
                                             (TA Arena)
6:30 – 9:30 p.m.         THEATRECAFE! à A Renaissance Dinner, a Renaissance presentation,                                                                               and a viewing of the motion picture STAGE BEAUTY (2004) (TA Arena)
                                           (Dr. Gail Forman and Ms. Cam Magee, Folger Shakespeare Theatre)
                                              Cost: $15.00 per person. Reservation required.
                                              To reserve a space or obtain information
                             contact rachael.wilson@montgomerycollege.edu, or call 240.567.4008.

Takoma Park Campus

Tuesday, March 25th
1:00 – 2:15 a.m.         Workshop à “’Sound and Fury’: Exploring Shakespeare’s
                                                                  Text through Sound and Movement”
                                                (Prof. Sasha Olinick) (Black Box Theatre)

Thursday, March 27th
9:30 – 10:15 p.m.        Lecture/Demo à “Structure of the Verse”
                                                 (Ms. Kemper, Maryland Shakespeare Festival)
                                                 (Black Box Theatre)

Germantown Campus

Wednesday, March 26th
1:00 – 1:50 p.m.      Workshop à “’Sound and Fury’: Exploring Shakespeare’s
                                                              Text through Sound and Movement”
                                                 (Prof. Sasha Olinick) (HT 122)

Friday, March 28th
12:00 – 12:50pm Lecture/Demo à “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)

+A L L E V E N T S (TheatreCafé excluded+) A R E F R E E 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 rachael.wilson@montgomerycollege.edu.
For more information concerning WILLPOWER! or Montgomery College’s Theatre Program (Rockville)
call 240.567.4001.
For persons requiring special accommodations please visit www.montgomerycollege.edu 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.