GLOBE EDUCATION

and the

INSTITUTE OF GERMANIC & ROMANCE STUDIES

present

Shakespeare – A German Writer

Acclaimed German actor Sebastian Koch (The Lives of Others, The Black Book) is joined by actor Philip Cumbus (Romeo and Juliet, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Macbeth) in an evening celebrating Shakespeare’s impact on German culture. The evening’s programme has been devised by Martin Swales and Godela Weiss-Sussex.

Readings in English and German will be complemented by extracts from German films, silent and modern, and introduced by Martin Swales.

Thursday, 14 October 2010, at 7 pm

Running time: 75 minutes with no interval

(bar opens at 6.30 pm)

At the

Underglobe, Shakespeare’s Globe, 21 New Globe Walk, London SE1 9DT

Tickets £12 (£10 FoSG/concs/students)

From Shakespeare’s Globe Box Office: 020 7401 9919

The evening is sponsored by the Friends of Germanic Studies and the Coffin Trust of the University of London

The event is part of Globe Education’s Shakespeare is German season of events (www.shakespeares-globe.org)

Jane Lewin

Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies

University of London School of Advanced Study

Room ST 272, Senate House

Malet Street, GB- London WC1E 7HU
Telephone 0044 (0)20 7862 8966

Website www.igrs.sas.ac.uk