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