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The English Faculty of the University of Oxford is the largest and most diverse

in Britain, and has recently been ranked the top English department in the

esteemed QS World University rankings. It has included among its former

members such distinguished figures as many great Shakespeareans, including

A.C. Bradley, W.H. Auden, C.S. Lewis, Emrys Jones, and Stanley Wells. We are

now home to almost eighty postholders, with a flourishing undergraduate

course, and one of the most prestigious graduate schools in the world.

Blackwell’s Bookshop on Broad Street, with its year-round events

programme, has been serving the needs of academics, students and

book lovers since 1879. In addition to their main shop, with over four

floors, including the cavernous Norrington Room basement, they have separate shops for Art &

Poster and Printed Music, books, recordings and musical instruments and their very own Rare &

Antiquarian department.

The Bodleian Libraries’ combined collections number more than 12

million printed items, in addition to 90,000 e-journals and vast quantities

of materials in many other formats. Whether you visit an exhibition or a

display, attend an event or a lecture, go on a guided tour, or visit our two

shops, you will find an opportunity to discover distinguished collections,

magnificent buildings and informative programmes.

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Organisation (DMO) for Oxfordshire. They are a not-for-profit partnership

organisation committed to the promotion, management and development of Oxfordshire as a great

destination to live, work, visit and do business.

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The Oxfordshire Library Service delivers services

and activities that help to develop and support

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Oxfordshire society. After the successful completion of the Find Your Voice project, working with

over 400 young people in 2015, Arts Council England has funded the public libraries in the city to

collaborate with the Bodleian Libraries in 2016 to bring Shakespeare to the people in surprising

and new ways.

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“Teeming autumn, big with rich increase…..”

As summer plays out in some of Oxford’s most beautiful

outdoor locations, Shakespeare Oxford 2016 gears up

for autumn. The days are starting to draw in and Oxford

beckons with the best of the Bard in dance, opera, song

– and on the big screen. Shakespeare is the inspiration

for talks, workshops, new drama and poetry in our final

season of events. I am excited by Play On! at Ultimate

Picture Palace, a rare chance to see excerpts of the first

Shakespeare silent films; and impatient to hear more

about the arrival of The New Oxford Shakespeare, the

highly-anticipated landmark publication from Oxford

University Press. The launch for the book on 23rd

November will include a fascinating panel discussion

which draws the Shakespeare’s Dead theme to an

intriguingly open-ended close.

Shakespeare is interpreted by groundbreaking dance

companies at the Weston Library and the North Wall Arts Centre; and by world-class singers, during

the Oxford Lieder Festival, in October.

Autumn is also about exploring Shakespeare for the very first time. 1623 Company invites children

to play with Shakespeare’s magic creatures; the Shakespeare Schools Festival brings Shakespeare

alive for young people; and celebrated poet Kate Clanchy’s interactive project Sonnets Alive

introduces students to the appeal of Shakespeare’s verse.

The University of Oxford takes a magnifiying glass to Shakespeare, inviting adults and students

to a deeper understanding of his work. And don’t forget that many of the talks, workshops, open

rehearsals and play-readings can be enjoyed locally at your very own neighbourhood library; why

not dash off a couplet or quatrain yourself?

Shakespeare himself said, “How far that little

candle throws his beams”. Catch some of those

here in Oxford, at our end of season Carousing

with Shakespeare, a spirited finale to this

special year of celebration. Our revels may be

ended, but the Bard lives on!

Jacqui Ibbotson and The Festival Consortium,

August 2016

CONTeNTS

Library events ..................... 4 - 5

Dance in Libraries ....................6

exhibitions ................................7

Talks & Books ..................... 8 - 9

Family events .........................10

Trails & Tours ..........................11

Performance ...................12 - 14

Concerts & Opera ..................15

Films ........................................16

end of Festival Celebration ..17

Calendar of events ........18 - 19

Illuminating Shakespeare .....20

SHAKESPEARE OxfORd 2016


SHAKESPEARE in liBRARiES

enjoy a variety of innovative experiences in Oxford’s public libraries and at the Weston Library, part of an Arts Council funded project, Shakespeare’s Dead or Alive. The programme includes ballet, contemporary dance and new drama inspired by Shakespeare, a reading challenge, a schools sonnet-writing project, talks, workshops, open rehearsals and play readings – all coming to a library near you!

Oxfordshire’s popular annual adult reading challenge continues across all 43 Oxfordshire Libraries until the 10th of September. Taking inspiration from the Shakespearean themes of comedies, histories and tragedies there is much to inspire you in the library book displays. Book lovers are invited to write their own brief book reviews and recommendations on specially designed postcards, which will be displayed in libraries throughout the summer. Readers can use the postcards to enter into the Grand Prize Draw for a range of superb local prizes from Waterperry Gardens, Crocodiles of the World, Wychwood Brewery, Marks and Spencer and The Randolph Hotel.

MIDSuMMer NIghT’S reADINg ChALLeNge COMe AND TALK ABOuT BOOKS

A range of literary events will also be on offer throughout the summer. Book discussion groups, led by a librarian, will focus on sharing our reading with each other.

Libraries:

Didcot 3rd Aug (graphic Novels) at 2pm,

Bicester 4th August at 2.30pm,

eynsham 10th August at 2pm,

Kidlington 15th August at 11am,

Watlington 23rd August at 2.30pm,

Abingdon 25th August (Crime Books) at 2pm,

Woodstock 31st August at 2pm Free events approximately 2 hours long. Please

book ahead with the library.

SPeCIAL AuThOr eVeNTS : COMeDY, hISTOrY & TrAgeDY

Blackwell’s Bookshop is supporting four author events at libraries in Oxford which are also free with entry by ticket. Please contact the library in advance.

headington Library: Lisa Dickenson ............................ Saturday, 20th August 3 - 4pm Summertown Library: harry Sidebottom ....................... Saturday, 3rd September 11am – 12pm Cowley Library: Francesca Kay.............................. Tuesday, 6th September 5.30 – 6.30pm

For more information, please see oxfordshire.gov.uk/midsummer


SHAKESPEARE in liBRARiES

MOre ShAKeSPeAre eVeNTS IN LIBrArIeS ThIS AuTuMN:

Midsummer Magical Creatures workshop (p 10)

Yorke Dance Project workshop and talk (p 6)

Mandala Theatre Company open rehearsal (p 13)

Come and Talk About The Plays (p 13)

Crossover Dance Project workshop (p 6) We are delighted to bring Shakespeare to life for library audiences across the City. Come along and enjoy these special events - we look forward

to seeing you!

SONNeTS ALIVe

Schools project & drop in activity

Shakespeare may be dead, but his special poetic form, the English or Shakespearean sonnet, is very much alive. Poets use it,

and adapt it, quarrel with it and fall back on it again because it such a graceful form – and also such a flattering one. Poet and author Kate Clanchy invites you to write your own sonnet, or just a quatrain, and add it to the sonnet tree (pictured below). Sonnets from the children of Windale Primary School and Oxford Spires Academy are already on the tree.

9th July – 18th Sept Blackwell hall, Weston Library

19th September – 31st October in public libraries

A rhAPSODY OF WOrDS

Though this be madness, And yet there is method in it

Oxford Playhouse Young Company, re-stitched Britches, is a group of young players who have come together to make a new story using famous quotations and recognisable phrases from Shakespeare’s better known plays. Be prepared for melancholy, mayhem or mirth in this short new drama, created through play!

Saturday 12th November, 11am and 2pm in Cowley Library, Temple road OX4 2eZ

Re-stitched Britches


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Yorke Dance Project

Dynamic contemporary ballet company directed by Yolande Yorke Edgell will present an open rehearsal and excerpts of Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s rarely performed work, Sea of Troubles, based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet, with an ensemble of six outstanding dancers. Inspired by nine separate scenes from MacMillan’s only bare-foot ballet, Sea of Troubles focuses on Hamlet’s psychological state, with death scenes interpreted through the physicality, emotion and complex partner-work of the choreography. Performed to the original 20th century chamber music by Webern and Martinu. Susie Crow, who danced in the original production, explains the fascinating creative process.

8th September Talk and Movement Workshop led by Struan Leslie and Susie Crow, 7.30pm at Summertown

Library, South Parade, Oxford OX2 7JN

Sunday 18th September, Open rehearsal and performances, 11.30am - 4pm, Blackwell hall, Weston Library

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ShAKeSPeAre’S DeAD Or ALIVe

Crossover Dance Projects explore turmoil and conflict in Shakespeare’s tales which feature magic, mystery and mayhem through dance, music and spoken word. Choreographed and directed by performance poet, Euton Daley and Cecilia Macfarlane, a dance artist with an international reputation for her work in the community. The uniqueness and individuality of each dancer is celebrated in this intergenerational cast spanning six decades.

25th October, 2pm at Cowley Library

(extract and workshop open to the public)

25th October, 7pm at Ark-T Centre, Temple Cowley

(Premiere performance)

26th November, performances, as part of Christmas

Light Festival


ExHiBitiOnS

ShAKeSPeAre’S DeAD

Shakespeare’s Dead, a major exhibition at the Bodleian Libraries, explores how Shakespeare used the anticipation of death, the moment of death and mourning the dead as contexts to bring characters to life. The exhibition features tragic characters from Shakespeare’s works including Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet and Hamlet.

Shakespeare’s Dead also looks at last words spoken, funerals and mourning as well as life after death, including ghosts and characters who come back to life. Explore these themes through key items from the Bodleian’s famous literary collections that include Shakespeare’s First Folio and the the earliest edition of Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, a number of early editions and an extensive collection of plays and poetry by Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

22nd April - 18th September

Weston Library, Bodleian Libraries, Broad Street,

Oxford OX1 3Bg

Admission Free

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Pictured right: A page from A dialogue… against the fever pestilence, a book by English physician and cleric William Bullein. The book was published in 1564, the year of Shakespeare’s birth. It was a medical tract advocating the right responses to infection but also has similarities to a play, using dialogue and characters in a lively style that mixes medicine, morality, and entertainment.

TWeLFTh NIghT: AN eXhIBITON OF FINe LeTTerINg ArTS

An exhibition of lettering arts by members of Oxford Scribes based on quotations from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. To be held at the John Radcliffe Hospital over a period including the twelve days of Christmas.

10th December 2016 - 21st January 2017. The hospital exhibition space is located on the main corridor

(level 2) of the original John radcliffe building (Jr2), between the pharmacy and the League of Friends Cafe


The University of Oxford presents a series of fascinating talks with a focus on Shakespeare - the spoken word, magic and death – brought to life by Shakespeare scholars of international renown. All are welcome to these free talks.

tAlKS - SPEAK tHE SPEEcH

ShAKeSPeAre’S OrIgINALITY

Professor John Kerrigan, St John’s College, Cambridge University

Oxford University English Faculty invites John Kerrigan to present this year’s ‘Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lectures’ on the theme of ‘Shakespeare’s Originality’. Shakespeare drew on many books — often word-for-word — when writing his plays, yet we think of him as creating a unique, dramatic world. These lectures re-open the question of his use of sources (chronicles, romances, the Bible, etc.), the better to understand his originality.

Wednesdays 12th, 19th, 26th October &

2nd November at 5.15pm

examination Schools, 81 high Street, Oxford OX1 4AS

ShAKeSPeAre AND The VICTOrIANS

Professor Robert Douglas Fairhurst, Oxford University English Faculty

In 1864, Robert Browning observed that he and his contemporaries had Shakespeare “in our very bones and blood, our very selves”. In this talk, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst explores some of the ways in which the Victorians tried to keep Shakespeare alive in the nineteenth century: through theatrical revivals and literary allusions; through paintings and photographs; and especially through their fascination with Tennyson’s idea that “the dead are not dead but alive”.

Wednesday 19th October, 1 - 2pm

Lecture Theatre, Weston Library, Broad Street,

Oxford, OX1 3Bg

Free but book early for Weston Library talks to avoid

disappointment: bodleian.ox.ac.uk/whatson

PerFOrMINg ShAKeSPeAre: TheN AND NOW

Professor Tiffany Stern, Oxford University English Faculty with Jonathan Lloyd and the actors of Pegasus Theatre

Accompanied by actors from Pegasus Theatre to help illustrate their points, Jonathan Lloyd, Artistic Director of Pegasus Theatre, and Tiffany Stern, Professor of Early Modern Drama, discuss performing Shakespeare in the past and now.

Wednesday 26th October, 1 – 2.30pm

Lecture Theatre, Weston Library, Broad Street,

Oxford OX1 3Bg

Free but book early for Weston Library talks to avoid

disappointment: bodleian.ox.ac.uk/whatson

WeSTON LIBrArY TALKS

Catch up with previous talks of the Shakespeare Oxford 2016 programme at the Weston Library in 2016 by visiting bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/events

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uNDeAD ShAKeSPeAre: The WrITer WhO CAN’T Be KILLeD

A panel discussion with the general editors of The New Oxford Shakespeare, chaired by Sir Stanley Wells, Honorary President of The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

From 1592 (‘upstart crow’) to 2014 (‘Shakespeare sucks’), many influential writers and critics have attacked Shakespeare’s work, from many different perspectives. Why has Shakespeare survived all these criticisms? But perhaps that is the wrong question. Is it possible that Shakespeare’s unique status depends on criticism? And that the instabilities of text, authorship and interpretation secure the stability of his reputation?

Wednesday 23rd November, 5.30 pm, The Oxford

Martin School, 34 Broad St, Oxford OX1 3BD

bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/stores/oxford-bookshop/

events/

MArgAreT ATWOOD’S hAg-SeeD

Blackwell’s presents an evening with Margaret Atwood, bestselling author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays, who will be discussing her much anticipated novel Hag-Seed.

As part of the Hogarth Shakespeare series, Hag-Seed is a re-visiting of Shakespeare’s play of magic and illusion, The Tempest. Chairing the event will be Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Oxford, Dr Emma Smith.

Wednesday 9th November, 7pm

Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3AZ

bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/stores/oxford-bookshop/

events/

ShAKeSPeAre BOOK OF The MONTh

Blackwell’s Bookshop selects for you new novels inspired by Shakespeare as well as new academic titles about Shakespeare’s life and craft: some of the freshest and most

appealing books about the most influential writer in history.

bookshop.blackwell.

co.uk/stores/

oxford-bookshop/

shakespeare-book-of-

the-month/The New Oxford Shakespeare

General Editors: Gary Taylor, John Jowett, Terri Bourus, Gabriel Egan


fAmilY EvEntS

MIDSuMMer MAgICAL CreATureS WOrKShOPS

Learn about the nature-inspired fairies at The Story Museum in A Midsummer Night’s Dream with 1623 Theatre Company and create your own magical creatures. Enter the world of A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream, take part in role-play and add your magical creature to a Magical Forest montage.

Saturday 20th August, 11am - 3pm

The Story Museum, 42 Pembroke Street, Oxford OX1 1BP

Free with museum entry: storymuseum.org.uk

Saturday 3rd September, 11am – 3pm

Kidlington Library, 23 Oxford road, Kidlington OX5 2BP

BILL’S BLOOMS

For something different why not take a trail around the Botanic Garden featuring plants mentioned by Shakespeare in his plays and sonnets.

The trail will run until 31st October 2016.

Oxford university Botanic gardens, Magdalen Bridge,

Oxford OX1 4AZ Admission daily 9am - 5.15pm

ShAKeSPeAre SChOOLS FeSTIVAL

Shakespeare Schools Festival is proud to present a series of unique and inspiring performances by young people from all over Oxford. Shakespeare Schools Festival is the UK’s largest youth drama festival and enables over 1,000 primary, secondary, and special schools to stage abridged Shakespeare productions in their local professional theatre. For adults and children alike an evening at Shakespeare Schools Festival will be a night to be treasured and remembered! For more info: ssf.uk.com

Wednesday 9th – Friday 11th November

headington Theatre, headington School, Oxford

OX3 7TD Priority booking to families of the casts


tRAilS & tOuRS

The ShAKeSPeAre IN OXFOrD WALKINg TOur

Visit the places where William Shakespeare and his players stayed in Oxford, including the location where Hamlet was first performed. You will also have the opportunity to see the Elizabethan murals in the 12th century inn frequented by Shakespeare. Tickets cost £9. 01865 333602 [email protected].

Fridays at 2pm until Friday 28th October

VISIT The PAINTeD rOOM AT OXFOrD OPeN DOOrS

Step back in time during Oxford’s Open Doors weekend with Oxford Preservation Trust to discover the secrets of the Painted Room, part of the Crown Tavern where Shakespeare stayed on his way to Stratford-upon-Avon. Experience an extraordinary hidden gem in the heart of the city and see its beautiful and remarkably well-preserved 16th century wall-paintings.

10th & 11th September The Painted room, Cornmarket Street, Oxford, OX1 3eX Visit for more information oxfordpreservation.org.uk

ShAKeSPeAre’S WOrLD VIeW: STArS, gLOBeS AND MAgIC

Follow Shakespeare through the Museum of the History of Science to discover the impact of the world on his works. A series of highlighted objects in the Museum’s permanent galleries will explore Shakespeare’s knowledge of the natural world. Suitable for adventurous adults and curious children, come and discover the influence of Elizabethan thinkers on Shakespeare’s works and let the collection transport you back in time.

1 August – 30 December

12 - 5pm, Tuesdays to Sundays

Curator-led tour on 17th August and 21st September at

1.30pm

Museum of the history of Science, Broad Street,

Oxford, OX1 3AZ

recommended donation of £2


hAMLeT

Celebrate 20 years of Creation Theatre with this open-air production of one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies. Join Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, as he avenges his father’s death in this tale of obsession, insanity and revenge. This production is as inventive and eccentric as audiences have come to expect from Creation, marking their 60th performance in Oxford. Creation Theatre Company is Oxfordshire’s largest producing theatre company, specialising in classic texts and unusual locations.

13th July – 13th August, university Parks

creationtheatre.co.uk

The MAgIC OF ShAKeSPeAre – MACBeTh AND DreAM

An evening of comedy and tragedy, sword and sorcery, BMH’s Macbeth and A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a full on medieval affair, with broad swords aplenty.

Two one-hour versions of the Bard’s plays on the same night, with the same cast in both plays! Marvel at the tragic journey of Macbeth from noble, loyal lord to revengeful King. Then laugh at Bottom’s transformation from hapless amateur actor to full on Ass!

1st – 13th August, 7.30pm

Oxford Castle unlocked, Oxford OX1 1AY

oxfordcastleunlocked.co.uk/events/oxford-

shakespeare-festival/

SummER PERfORmAncE

Don’t miss your last chance to experience open air Shakespeare in beautiful Oxford settings. Waterproof ponchos are usually provided for our good old english summertime!

LOVe’S LABOur’S LOST

Watch the madcap antics of four (once) solemn young men and their cohorts, as they fall over themselves and their words, to find out whether four weary young women love them or love them not. Oxford Shakespeare Company, acclaimed specialists in open-air theatre perform at Wadham College Oxford before making an appearance at Wilderness Festival. Their Love’s Labour’s Lost is let loose in the 1970s with original music inspired by the decade that brought us Glam Rock, Punk and New Wave.

28th June – 18th August, 7.30pm, matinees at 2.30pm

Wadham College gardens, Parks road, Oxford OX1 3PN

oxfordshakespearecompany.co.uk


PERfORmAncE

NIghT LIghT BY NADIA DAVIDS

Mandala Theatre Company reflects on Shakespeare’s Pericles in this new commission which explores displacement and belonging in our time.

Somewhere in England two teenagers seeking asylum and fearing deportation, hide out in an abandoned factory. As the long cold night unfolds, they imagine their future and tell each other about their past until a familiar figure arrives. At any point he can reveal their hiding place, turn them over to the authorities and send them back to their countries and to danger. mandala theatre company is an Oxford based Community Interest Company (CIC) that uses the power of theatre to change lives, build community, and foster social justice.

13th September Open rehearsal, 12 - 7pm

Kennington Library and Village hall

Kennington, Oxford OX1 5Pg

29th & 30th September, 7.30pm

Pegasus Theatre

pegasustheatre.org.uk

LIVe CANON’S SONNeT reMIX

This year, to celebrate Shakespeare’s 400th anniversary, Live Canon invited 154 poets to write new poems in response to Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets. Participating poets came from all over the world (including Oxford). Here, Live Canon perform a selection of Shakespeare’s sonnets and the contemporary poems written in response, in celebration of the bard. Live Canon perform poetry, from memory, at theatres, festivals and poetry events throughout the world.

4th November, 5pm at Oxford Playhouse,

Beaumont Street, Oxford, OX1 2LW

oxfordplayhouse.com

COMe AND TALK ABOuT The PLAYS

Exploring the works of Shakespeare not yet presented in Oxford in 2016, local actors, academics, directors and writers have come together to present readings of excerpts from some of the less performed of Shakespeare’s plays. Topics for discussion after each piece will range from how working with an acting company changed the way Shakespeare wrote to exploring the difference between a boy and a woman playing the female lead. Check the website for more details.

Sat 8th October, 7.30pm at Summertown Library,

South Parade, Summertown OX2 7JN

shakespeareoxford2016.co.uk


PERfORmAncE

LADY MACBeTh: uNSeX Me here

An exciting and unique piece of dance theatre by award-winning Company Chordelia Artistic Director Kally Lloyd-Jones. Marking the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, Lady Macbeth: Unsex Me Here explores one of Shakespeare’s most complex women. Ambition, power, guilt, remorse, loss, death. Paralleling Shakespeare’s time, a cast of three male dancers all play Lady Macbeth, exploring the relationship between masculinity and femininity.

Using Shakespeare’s language as the source, British Sign Language is used to create choreography, producing a piece of visceral dance and movement theatre which will reach Deaf and hearing audiences alike.

26th October, 8pm

The North Wall Arts Centre, South Parade, Oxford

OX2 7JN thenorthwall.com

ChrISTMAS LIghT FeSTIVAL

Oxford’s popular Christmas Light Festival this year embraces the theme, Winter Tales in homage to Shakespeare’s late great work. On Friday evening, follow the magical lantern procession and join the festive atmosphere in the City’s museums, at Gloucester Green and on the streets. There are lots of free events and over the weekend you can catch a performance of ‘Shakespeare Dead or Alive’ by Crossover Dance Projects. Check the website for more details.

Friday 25th – Sunday 27th November

Oxford City Centre

oxfordschristmas.com


cOncERtS & OPERA

OXFOrD LIeDer FeSTIVAL: ANNe SOPhIe von OTTer

One of the world’s pre-eminent singers makes her first visit to the Oxford Lieder Festival, joined by pianist Julius Drake and a leading British actor (to be announced). Anne Sofie von Otter’s selection of Shakespeare settings and readings includes The Willow Song, Purcell If music be the food of love, Schubert An Silvia, Berlioz La mort d’Ophélie, and works by Sibelius, Korngold, Britten, Tippett, Rufus Wainwright and Cole Porter.

24th October, 7.30pm Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3AZ oxfordlieder.co.uk/tickets

SChuMANN & ShAKeSPeAre SONgS

Oxford Lieder Festival presents renowned soprano Kate Royal, star baritone Johannes Kammler, and acclaimed pianist Roger Vignoles in a once-in-a-lifetime Schumann Project in which all Robert Schumann’s songs will be performed. Schumann’s four Lieder und Gesange each contains five settings of poets including Shakespeare, composed between 1840 and 1850. These beautiful settings include the first song Schumann ever wrote, taken from A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

28th October, 7.30pm

holywell Music room, holywell St, Oxford OX1 3SD

oxfordlieder.co.uk/tickets

VerDI’S MACBeTh

Don’t miss this new production from Welsh National Opera for Shakespeare 400. Macbeth has blood on his hands, but although he is now king, the crown rests uneasily on his head. Verdi described Macbeth as ‘one of mankind’s greatest creations’; his thrillingly intense adaptation of this famous play is brooding and ferocious. As ever, we expect the WNO Chorus and Orchestra to throw themselves into Macbeth and create a highly-charged evening.

26th October, 7.15pm New Theatre, george Street, Oxford OX1 2Ag

atgtickets.com/shows/macbeth/new-theatre-oxford/


PLAY ON! ShAKeSPeAre IN SILeNT FILM

Drawing together a delightful selection of thrilling, iconic and humorous scenes from 24 titles, this newly digitised collection from the BFI celebrates Shakespeare in silent film from 1899-1940. By the end of the silent era around 300 Shakespeare adaptations had been produced. See King Lear battle a raging storm at Stonehenge, The Merchant of Venice in stencil colour, the fairy magic of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and what was probably John Gielgud’s first appearance on film, in Romeo and Juliet (1924).

25th & 26th September 2016

The ultimate Picture Palace, Jeune Street, OX4 1BN

uppcinema.com

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rSC LIVe - CYMBeLINe

Britain is in crisis: alienated, insular and on the brink of disaster. Can it be saved? Cymbeline is Shakespeare’s coming of age tragicomic romance. A story of power, sexuality and identity, stunningly retold for the 21st century. Melly Still directs Gillian Bevan in the role of Cymbeline, the first woman to take on the role for the RSC, and Bethan Cullinane (King Lear, 2013 Globe Theatre) as Imogen.

In cinemas from 28th September 2016

rsc.org.uk/whats-on/in-cinemas/

rSC LIVe - KINg LeAr

King Lear has ruled for many years. As age begins to overtake him, he decides to divide his kingdom amongst his children, living out his days without the burden of power. Antony Sher returns to play King Lear - one of the greatest parts written by Shakespeare - following his performance as Willy Loman in Arthur Miller’s great 20th century American tragedy Death of a Salesman. The production is directed by Artistic Director Gregory Doran.

In cinemas from 12th October 2016

rsc.org.uk/whats-on/in-cinemas/

CuLT SCreeNS – rOMeO & JuLIeT

Shakespeare’s famous play is updated to the hip modern suburb of Verona Beach, California still retaining its original dialogue. Baz Luhrmann’s award-winning film stars Leonardo DiCaprio. Pick a deck chair and enjoy great wine or popcorn in this beautiful outdoor location.

24th August 2016, 7pm for an 8.30pm start

Lawn of Museum of Natural history & Pitt rivers

South Parks road, Oxford, OX1 3PP

cultscreens.co.uk/venue-info-oxford-pitt-rivers-

museum/

BFI King Lear


fEStivAl cElEBRAtiOnS

Enjoy an evening of poetry, laughter and music with a selection of sonnets, songs, Shakespeare-inspired sketches and even an Oxford versus Stratford Shakespeare quiz! Special guests include BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz, baritone Christopher Purves, RSC and Archers actor David Troughton, Lady Jill Freud, Phyllida Hancock, Ali Troughton and composer and music director Ben Parry.

Throughout 2016, Oxford has been celebrating Shakespeare’s 400th anniversary in public libraries, theatres, cinemas, concert halls, museums, in parks under the stars, in a carnival and in nightclubs. We invite you to enjoy witty and poignant moments from Shakespeare Oxford 2016, together with sonnets and contemporary poetry, play excerpts and sketches, jazz, choral and musical songs from our special guests and Musical Youth Company Oxford - a recipe for an unforgettable night.

CArOuSINg WITh ShAKeSPeAre

6th November, 7.30pm

The North Wall Arts Centre, South Parade, Oxford OX2 7JN

thenorthwall.com

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DATE ORGANISATION EVENT VENUE/TIME

22 April -

10 Sept

Oxfordshire Libraries MIDSUMMER READING

CHALLENGE

Libraries across the County

22 April -

18 Sept

Bodleian Libraries SHAKESPEARE’S DEAD

EXHIBITION

Weston Library opening hours

1 Aug - 18

Sept

Oxford Poetry Hub SONNETS ALIVE Weston Library opening hours

1 – 13 Aug BMH Productions THE MAGIC OF

SHAKESPEARE

Oxford Castle Unlocked, 7.30pm

1 - 13 Aug Creation Theatre HAMLET University Parks, 7pm

1 - 18 Aug Oxford Shakespeare Company LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST Wadham College Gardens,

7.30pm

20 Aug Blackwell’s LISA DICKENSON Headington Library, 3pm

Aug – 31

Oct

Oxford University Botanical

Gardens

BILL’S BLOOMS Oxford University Botanical

Gardens opening hours

20 Aug 1623 Company MIDSUMMER MAGICAL

CREATURES

The Story Museum, 11am - 3pm

1 Aug – 30

Dec

Museum of History of Science STARS, GLOBES AND MAGIC

Trail

Museum of History of Science

opening hours

3 Sept Blackwell’s HARRY SIDEBOTTOM Summertown Library, 11am

3 Sept The Story Museum with 1623

Company

MIDSUMMER MAGICAL

CREATURES

Kidlington Library, 11am – 3pm

6 Sept Blackwell’s FRANCESCA KAY Cowley Library, 5.30pm

8 Sept Yorke Dance Project with Susie

Crow

SEA OF TROUBLES

movement workshop & talk

Summertown Library, 7.30pm

13 Sept Mandala Theatre Company NIGHT LIGHT rehearsal Kennington Library, 12 - 7pm

18 Sept Yorke Dance Project SEA OF TROUBLES Blackwell Hall, Weston Library,

11.30am – 4pm

25 & 26

Sept

British Film Industry for

Shakespeare 400

PLAY ON! SHAKESPEARE IN

SILENT FILM

Ultimate Picture Palace tbc

From 28

Sept

RSC Live in Cinemas CYMBELINE Oxford Cinemas tbc

29 & 30

Sept

Mandala Theatre Company NIGHT LIGHT Pegasus Theatre, 7.30pm

8 Oct Oxford Arts Consultants COME AND TALK ABOUT THE

PLAYS

Summertown Library, 7.30pm

cAlEndAR Of EvEntS


12 Oct Oxford University English

Faculty

SHAKESPEARE’S ORIGINALITY

Wells Lecture 1

Examination Schools, 5.15pm

12 Oct RSC Live in Cinemas KING LEAR Oxford Cinemas tbc


Faculty

SHAKESPEARE AND THE

VICTORIANS

Lecture Theatre, Weston Library,

1pm


Faculty


Wells Lecture 2


24 Oct Oxford Lieder Festival Anne Sophie von Otter Sheldonian Theatre, 7.30pm

25 Oct Crossover Dance Projects SHAKESPEARE DEAD OR

ALIVE

Cowley Library, 2pm

Ark-T Centre, 7pm

26 Oct Prof. Tiffany Stern & Jonathan

Lloyd

PERFORMING SHAKESPEARE:

THEN & NOW

Lecture Theatre, Weston Library,

1pm


Faculty


Wells Lecture 3


26 Oct Welsh National Opera VERDI’S MACBETH The New Theatre, 7.15pm

26 Oct Company Chordelia LADY MACBETH: UNSEX ME

HERE

The North Wall Arts Centre, 8pm

28 Oct Oxford Lieder Festival SCHUMANN AND

SHAKESPEARE SONGS

Hollywell Music Room, 7.30pm

2 Nov Oxford University English

Faculty


Wells Lecture 4


4 Nov Live Canon LIVE CANON’S SONNET

REMIX

Oxford Playhouse, 5pm

6 Nov Shakespeare Oxford 2016 &

Friends

CAROUSING WITH

SHAKESPEARE

The North Wall Arts Centre,

7.30pm

9 – 11 Nov Shakespeare Schools Festival SCHOOLS SHAKESPEARE Headington Theatre

12 Nov Re-Stitched Britches A RHAPSODY OF WORDS Cowley Library, 11am & 2pm

23 Nov Oxford University Press UNDEAD SHAKESPEARE: THE

WRITER WHO CAN’T BE KILLED

The Oxford Martin School,

5.30pm

25 - 27

Nov

Crossover Dance Projects CHRISTMAS LIGHT FESTIVAL City Centre Venues

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