2016 Program

The first edition of the Lausanne Shakespeare Festival took place at the Théâtre Grange de Dorigny on June 24-25, 2016.

Friday, 24 June

Morning

9 am – 12 pm:

Workshop: “ ‘seeming’ / ‘being’: Theatre in Search of “Reality”” – Roelof Overmeer (Senior Lecturer in English Literature, UNIL)

Afternoon

2 – 4 pm:

Workshop: “Stands Scotland where it did?”: History, Context and Recontextualization of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth (?1605) and David Greig’s Dunsinane (2011) – Kirsten Stirling (Senior Lecturer in English Literature, UNIL)

Evening

6.15 pm:

Musical Prelude – Denis Renevey

7 pm:

Welcome – Kevin Curran (Director, Lausanne Shakespeare Festival; Professor of Early Modern English Literature, UNIL)

7.10 – 8.40 pm:

The Tragedy of Macbeth (surtitré en français)

Q&A – séance de questions/réponses sur la pièce

Saturday, 25 June

Afternoon

2 – 4 pm:

Workshop: The Multilingual Shakespeare project and Swiss Stage Bards – Elizabeth Dutton (Professor of English Philology, University of Fribourg)

Evening

6.15 pm:

Musical Prelude – Denis Renevey

7 – 8:30 pm:

La Tempête (with subtitles in English)

Q&A – séance de questions/réponses sur la pièce

Refreshments