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Revisiting Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus 1594 – 2024
Keynote speaker: Sir Gregory Doran
Wednesday 27th March at London South Bank University
Deadline for submissions: 23rd February 2024
This half-day symposium at London South Bank University in association with The Rose Playhouse, Bankside, invites scholars and practitioners interested in theatre performance, history, and Shakespearean critical studies to join us for workshops, discussion and presentations focusing on Titus Andronicus.
We are delighted to announce our keynote speaker for this event as Sir Gregory Doran who will deliver the inaugural annual Rose Playhouse Lecture following the symposium at 18.30pm. The event will be streamed live on Zoom.
In 1593 and 1594 Henslowe’s account book records the first performances of Titus
Andronicus. 400 years later Sir Gregory Doran directed a seminal production with the
Market Theatre, Johannesburg, with his South African-born partner Antony Sher.
Commenting on the production Michael Kustow, of the Sunday Times, wrote:
‘What we see is not just a theatre production. It is a significant act of cultural cross-
fertilisation, cooked up in South Africa, not imported from abroad... Sher and Doran have
tried for something more dangerous, more urgent, as befits the Elizabethan roughness
and vitality of the Market Theatre itself, which would have been a good neighbour to the
Globe on Bankside.'
Doran and Sher jointly wrote about their roller-coaster journey with that production in
Woza Shakespeare! published by Methuen. Thirty years on Gregory looks back at his
production, its influence on a generation of theatre makers and it’s re-imagining for a
modern political purpose.
We invite contributions to the symposium, which will include entry to the inaugural lecture, on areas including, but not limited to:
• Historical and historiographic readings of Titus Andronicus
• The historical context of the play and it’s connection to The Rose Playhouse, Alleyn and Henslowe
• The problematics of Titus Andronicus in the age of consent
• Staging terror and horror in the play
• Challenges and opportunities of the play in production
We welcome different formats for the symposium including short provocations, papers with performative elements and short workshops. Papers should be 15-20 minutes in length and workshops no longer than 30 minutes.
Abstract Submission
Please submit an abstract of 300 words (max) and a 100 word bio to the symposium convener, Professor Gill Foster on [log in to unmask]
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