2012 Stratford Seminar Packet

July 9 - July 14, 2012

SEMINAR PACKET

53 rd McMaster StratfordShakespearean Seminar Series

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ALUMNI53rd McMaster Stratford

Shakespearean Seminar Series

Welcome to the 53rd McMaster Stratford

Theatre SeminarThe faces of this year’s Seminar are:

McMaster StaffKaren McQuigge ‘90, Director, Alumni Advancement

Graham Roebuck ‘66, Academic DirectorKathleen D’Amico ‘89, Program ManagerLaura Escalante ‘97, Program Manager

Todd Rich, On-Site Logistics

LecturersPeter CockettGayle GaskillArthur Kinney

Graham Roebuck

Special GuestsDr. Patrick Deane

Bob Williamson ‘62Cynthia ToushanSean Arbuckle

C. David JohnsonCara RickettsMike Shara

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Itinerary

Date Time Performance Location Monday, July 9 2:00 pm- 5:45 pm Seminar registration The Parlour, Best Western

3:00 pm Archives Tour 350 Douro Street 6:00 pm Welcome Reception followed by dinner The Parlour, Best Western

Tuesday, July 10 9:30 am Lecture: Graham Roebuck – “‘The Land of Beyond’: whoopin’ it up with Robert Service”

Knox Church

10:45 am Lecture: Arthur Kinney – “Unscrambling Cymbeline” Knox Church 12:00 pm Lunch The Parlour, Best Western 2:00 pm Cymbeline Tom Patterson Theatre 8:00 pm Wanderlust Tom Patterson Theatre Wednesday, July 11 8:45 am Post-performance Discussion – Cymbeline – Arthur Kinney Knox Church 9:30 am Talk: Cynthia Toushan, Stratford Festival Choreographer and Stage

Manager of 42nd Street, on 42nd Street and Choreography Knox Church

10:45 am Lecture: Peter Cockett on “The Famous Victories of Henry V” Knox Church 12:00 pm Lunch The Parlour, Best Western 2:00 pm 42nd Street Festival Theatre 8:00 pm The Matchmaker Festival Theatre Thursday, July 12 9:30 am Talking Theatre with Antoni Cimolino & Pat Quigley Tom Patterson Theatre 12:00 pm Lunch The Parlour, Best Western 1:30 pm Viewing of Anonymous, (movie) The Parlour, Best Western 4:00 pm Talk: Peter Cockett – “Anonymous: Who Wrote Shakespeare?”

Q&A The Parlour, Best Western

6:00 pm Registration and Dinner Weekend Group The Parlour, Best Western 8:00 pm The Pirates of Penzance Avon Theatre Friday, July 13 9:30 am Lecture: Cdr. Bob Williamson ’62 – “The Untold Story of the War of

1812” Stratford Golf & Country Club – refreshments at 9:00 am

10:45 am Lecture: Patrick Deane, President and Vice-Chancellor, McMaster University, on Henry V

Stratford Golf & Country Club

12:00 pm Lunch Stratford Golf & Country Club

2:00 pm The War of 1812 – optional for everyone (limited number of tickets available) – SOLD OUT

Studio Theatre Annex

5:00 pm Dinner The Church Restaurant 8:00 pm Henry V – opening night (may not be A+ tickets for this

performance) Festival Theatre

Saturday, July 14 8:45 am Post-performance Discussion – Henry V – Patrick Deane Knox Church 9:30 am Lecture: Gayle Gaskill – “A Scotch Jig, a Measure, and a

Cinquepace: Honor’s Choreographies in Much Ado About Nothing” Knox Church

10:45 am Actor Discussion Groups with Sean Arbuckle, C. David Johnson, Cara Ricketts, Mike Shara

Knox Church

12:00 pm Lunch The Parlour, Best Western 2:00 pm Hirsch (optional for weeklong) Studio Theatre 8:00 pm Much Ado About Nothing Festival Theatre Sunday, July 15 9:00 am Post-performance Discussion – Much Ado About Nothing – Gayle

Gaskill, Continental Breakfast provided The Parlour, Best Western

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Meet Our Lecturers

PETER COCKETTPeter Cockett is Assistant Professor in the Theatre and Film Studies Programme at McMaster University’s School of the Arts where he teaches acting and devising. His research for the past six years has been focused on the Queen’s Men, the dominant theatre company of the early Elizabethan stage. From 2005-7, he served as professional consultant for the Shakespeare and the Queen’s Men Project (SQM), directing King Leir, Famous Victories of Henry V and Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay. He is the principal creator of Performing the Queen’s Men, an interactive website designed to disseminate the findings of the SQM project, and is currently co-editing King Leir for another new website Queen’s Men Editions, providing

director’s notes and performance commentary. He has published on early modern performance practices and the use of performance as a tool for scholarship and research. He is a founder member of the Centre for Performance Studies in Early Theatre at the University of Toronto, the research wing of the long standing Poculi Ludique Societas (PLS), the University of Toronto’s Medieval and Renaissance Players, for whom he has directed several productions including the Digby Mary Magdalene (2003). He has directed three adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays and devised three new plays at McMaster University. Peter is also a professional actor. Most recent credits include: The Memory of Water (Tarragon Theatre/Elgin Winter Garden), Murdoch Mysteries (Shaftesbury Films) and The Border (White Pine Pictures).

GAYLE GASKILLGayle Gaskill is Professor of English and Director of the Honors Program at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she teaches classes in Shakespeare and his contemporaries as well as fictional female detectives and fairy tales for adults. She earned her Ph.D. in Renaissance English literature from the University of Minnesota with a minor in drama. She writes about Shakespeare’s sonnets and comedies, including “Overhearing Malvolio for Pleasure or Pity: the Letter Scene and the Dark House Scene in Twelfth Night on Stage and Screen” in Who Hears in Shakespeare?: Auditory Worlds on Stage Screen, edited by Laury Magnus and Walter W. Cannon, Fairleigh Dickinson UP,

2012, and editing the forthcoming Twelfth Night, by William Shakespeare, Intro. Study Guide (Focus Publishing). This is her ninth occasion to address the McMaster Seminars.

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ARTHUR F. KINNEYArthur Kinney is a Thomas W. Copeland Professor of Literary History at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and Director of the Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies. He is the editor of the journal English Literary Renaissance and of the book series “Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture”. He has written or edited a number of books including 76 books in the Twayne English Authors series. Arthur has edited Renaissance Drama: An Anthology of Plays and Entertainments for Blackwell, as well as his works on Shakespeare including: The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare, (published in February 2012); “Lies Like Truth: Shakespeare, Macbeth, and the Cultural

Moment”; “Shakespeare’s Webs”; and “Shakespeare and Cognition” (the latter two in paperback from Routledge). Arthur’s books include: “Shakespeare, Computers, and the Mysteries of Authorship” from Cambridge University Press in October 2009 and “Elizabethan and Jacobean England” was published by Blackwell Publishers in November 2010. Arthur is the recipient of two Lifetime Achievement Awards, one named for Paul Oskar Kristeller, given by the Renaissance Society of America and the other the Jean Robertson Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sidney Society.

GRAHAM ROEBUCKProfessor Emeritus at McMaster University, President of the John Donne Society in 2004-05, and Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Renaissance Studies at U Mass, Amherst, he maintains his scholarly interest in Early-Modern literature. Recent studies of Renaissance skepticism and of religious polemic will appear as chapters in forthcoming books on Donne and his times. He has two chapters in the Oxford Handbook of Donne, published in 2010, and a recent review essay in the John Donne Journal. He is co-editor of The Mysterious and the Foreign in Early-Modern England by the U of Delaware Press (2008), which was well received, and he is busy preparing an edition of the works and the life of Sidney Godolphin,

(“Little Sid”), the celebrated royalist poet and politician, killed in battle in 1643. He was Director of the McMaster Stratford Seminars from 1986-2004, and subsequently Academic Director.

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BOB WILLIAMSON ‘62Commander Bob Williamson is a 1962 Social Science graduate of McMaster University who lives and breathes Hamilton Heritage, making the War of 1812 one of his areas of historical interest. As a former commanding officer of H.M.C.S. Star, Hamilton’s Naval Reserve Division, who has also been heavily involved in the preservation and celebration of local heritage, Bob is an often sought after speaker and special guest within the Hamilton area. Bob is author of numerous historical works including: H.M.C.S. Star: A Navel Reserve History and UNTidy Tales: The Anecdotal Story of University Navy Cadets.

C. DAVID JOHNSONThird season: Pat Denning in 42nd Street and Major-General Stanley in The Pirates of Penzance. Stratford: Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music, Judge in Inherit the Wind, Poins in Henry IV, Part 1, Speed in The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Selected Theatre: Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Toronto/Broadway); Jitters, Mary Stuart, King Lear, The Threepenny Opera, The Winter’s Tale, A Chorus of Disapproval, The Real Thing, The Way of the World, Black Comedy/The Real Inspector Hound, The Play’s the Thing (Dora nomination) (Soulpepper Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Richard III (NAC); The Innocent Eye Test (Mirvish); Art, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, Macbeth, Sleuth, Misery, Peter Pan (TNB); To Kill

a Mockingbird, Three in the Back, Two in the Head (Neptune); A Walk in the Woods (Theatre & Co.); Tryst (Segal Centre); The Heiress (Drayton). Film/Media: Street Legal (CBC), Mysterious Island (Global), As It Happens (CBC/NPR).

Our Special Guests

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CARA RICKETTSFourth season: Innogen in Cymbeline and Ermengarde in The Matchmaker. Stratford: Ruth (The Homecoming), Maria (Twelfth Night), Celia (As You Like It), Perdita (The Winter’s Tale), Weird Sister (Macbeth), Portia (Julius Caesar), Hippolyta (A Midsummer Night’s Dream). Elsewhere: Cathy (Cruel and Tender, directed by Atom Egoyan) (Canadian Stage), Pauline Newberry (Eternal Hydra) (Crow’s Theatre), Juliet/Ophelia (Shakespeare: If Music Be...) (Art of Time Ensemble), Beneatha (A Raisin in the Sun) (Soulpepper, Theatre Calgary), Queen of Sheba (Wise Woman of Abyssinia) (b current Theatre), Saint Monica (The Last Days of Judas Iscariot) (Birdland Theatre; five Dora Awards), Antigone (Antigone:

Insurgency) (One Little Goat Theatre), Domestic by d’bi young (Volcano Theatre), Peggy Sue (Born Ready) (Obsidian Theatre). Film/TV: Bonnie (The Gathering) (Lifetime Network), Cyda Smith (Mayday) (Discovery), The Tower (CBS pilot with Davis Guggenheim). Training: Humber College.

MIKE SHARA Fourth season: Cloten in Cymbeline and Cornelius Hackl in The Matchmaker. Stratford: Twelfth Night, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Homecoming, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Winter’s Tale. Elsewhere: The Great Gatsby (Grand Theatre); Long Day’s Journey Into Night (MTC); Picnic, Nothing Sacred, You Never Can Tell, Arms and the Man, Misalliance, Hay Fever, Cavalcade (Shaw Festival); Take Me Out, It’s a Wonderful Life (Canadian Stage); Richard III, The Cherry Orchard (Citadel); Our Town, Black Comedy, The Way of the World (Soulpepper); Anatol (Vancouver Playhouse); An Inspector Calls (Theatre Calgary); Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Theatre Aquarius); Skylight (National Arts Centre). Film/TV: XIII:

The Series (Showcase), Little Mosque on the Prairie (CBC), King (Showcase), The Gathering (Lifetime), Queer as Folk (Showtime), Due South (CTV).

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SEAN ARBUCKLE11th season: Julian Marsh in 42nd Street and Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance. Stratford: Titus Andronicus (Saturninus), Richard III (Catesby), Cabaret (Cliff), Three Sisters (Tuzenbach), The Winter’s Tale (Camillo), The Merchant of Venice (Bassanio), The Swanne, part 2 (Leopold/Popple), Phèdre (Théramène), Twelfth Night (Orsino), Henry IV, Part 1 (Worcester), London Assurance (Dazzle), Macbeth (Banquo), The Trojan Women (Talthybius), Electra (The Beggar), Agamemnon (Agamemnon), As You Like It (Oliver), The Tempest (Antonio), Timon of Athens (Alcibiades), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Nick). Elsewhere: Broadway: The Importance of Being Earnest. Off-Broadway: The Waverly Gallery; Henry VI; I

Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change. National tour: Copenhagen (Heisenberg). Regional: The Turn of the Screw (Grand Theatre); Humble Boy, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, James Joyce’s The Dead (Pioneer Theatre Company); Phèdre (ACT); The Magnificent Ambersons, Candida (Indiana Rep); King John, All’s Well That Ends Well (Shakespeare Theatre Company); The Triumph of Love (Walnut Street); Present Laughter (Olney Theatre); The Steward of Christendom (Pittsburgh Public); The Collected Works of Billy the Kid (Dallas Theater Center); Richard III (Denver Center); Woman in Mind (Berkshire Theatre Festival); The Spitfire Grill (George Street Playhouse – world première). Film/TV: Anything But Love, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Sex and the City, Hope and Faith. Training: Duke University, The Juilliard School. Et cetera: Cabarets: Marvelous Party – A Noël Coward Soirée (Stratford Summer Music), As We Like It (Night Music).

CYNTHIA TOUSHANIn her 16th season with the Stratford Festival, Cynthia is currently the stage manager of 42nd Street, assistant stage manager of Henry V and production stage manager swing. Previously with Stratford, Cynthia has been stage manager of numerous musicals including Camelot, The Music Man, West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof and The King and I, among others. Cynthia was also the original production stage manager for Jersey Boys (Toronto), and has had 20 seasons with the Canadian Opera Company including, most recently, L’Amour de Loin. Additionally, Cynthia was senior stage manager of Pope John Paul II’s visit in 2002, and assistant director of the Olympic Torch Relay on Parliament Hill in 2009.

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DR. PATRICK DEANE Patrick Deane was born and raised in South Africa where he attended King Edward VII School in Johannesburg, going on to read English and Law at the University of the Witwatersrand. He immigrated to Canada in 1978, beginning graduate studies in English Literature at the University of Western Ontario. There he received an M.A. in 1980 and a Ph.D. in 1985. In 1984-85 he was a Queen Elizabeth II Scholar.

Deane was appointed to the faculty of the University of Toronto in 1986, but invited back to Western in 1988, the year in which he was awarded the first John Charles Polanyi Prize for Literature. He took up a position in the Department of English, teaching Twentieth-Century British Literature. He was appointed Vice-Chair of the Department in 1993 and Chair in 1997.

In 2001 Deane accepted an appointment as Vice-President (Academic) at The University of Winnipeg. Over the next four years he not only

discharged the normal responsibilities of that position, but also served for two years as Senior University Officer for Inter-Universities North (IUN), the consortium of three universities delivering post-secondary programs in Northern Manitoba. He was a member of the Winnipeg Ward Boundaries Commission in 2001-02, and President of The University of Winnipeg Educational Housing Corporation.

On the resignation of the President of The University of Winnipeg in December 2002, Deane became Acting President, a role which he performed concurrently with his duties as Vice-President (Academic) for one and a half years. During this period, and without cancellation of programs or loss of jobs, he oversaw the elimination of the university’s large accumulated deficit and the achievement of substantial surpluses, beginning in 2004. He worked to initiate a dramatic reconfiguration of the University’s fundraising operations, the culmination of which process was the establishment in 2002 of The University of Winnipeg Foundation. This independent corporation, of which Deane was a founding Board member, has recently reported unprecedented success in raising money for the University of Winnipeg.

When Deane handed over the Presidency to Dr. Lloyd Axworthy in May, 2004, the Board of Regents voted to establish the position of University Provost, and appointed Deane to it. In the same year he was presented with

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the Robin H. Farquhar Award for Excellence in Contributing to Self-Governance.

After serving at the University of Winnipeg, Patrick Deane was the Vice-Principal (Academic) of Queen’s University, a position he held from July, 2005 to July 2010. In this capacity, he provided academic leadership for the entire institution. His portfolio included all seven faculties and schools; the International Study Centre at Herstmonceux Castle, England; the Library; the Agnes Etherington Art Centre; the Office of the University Registrar; Institutional Planning and Analysis; and Student Affairs. In keeping with Queen’s tradition, his duties in all areas involved both collegial interaction with members of the academic faculty and close co-operation with student representatives. With students he worked very closely on a number of major university concerns ranging from academic programming to non-academic discipline. He led policy and decision making in town-gown relations, a subject on which he served as the principal spokesperson for the University. He was President of the International Study Centre Charitable Trust (UK), of Herstmonceux Castle Enterprises (UK), and is Past President of the Corporation of McGill-Queen’s University Press.

Patrick Deane assumed the office of President and Vice-Chancellor of McMaster University on July 1, 2010.

Deane has published two books: At Home in Time: Forms of neo-Augustinianism in Modern English Poetry (1994), and History in Our Hands (1998). His articles and other publications cover a wide range of topics, but focus largely on British writing of the period 1914-1945. His principal interest is the relationship between literature and politics, both at the level of national culture and in the work of specific figures. He has contributed significantly to the study of W.H. Auden.

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