October 10, 2015
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Folger Workshop for TeachersESUUS ESU Hawaii Folger Shakespeare Library |
Funded by ESU Hawai‘i and The Folger Shakespeare Library. Workshop Leader Skip Nicolson combines elements of Folger workshop on teaching Shakespeare with teaching the First Folio. | |
October 19-24, 2015 |
Master Class seriesEarle Ernst Lab Theatre at Kennedy Theatre |
Hosted by UH Mānoa Dept. of Theater and Dance. Master Class series led by Gary Logan, Director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Academy for Classical Acting in Washington, D.C. Information >> | |
October 24, 2015 |
Scansion Dynamics, Persuasion, and DialectsMānoa Campus, Earle Ernst Lab Theatre |
Led by Gary Logan, Director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Academy for Classical Acting in Washington, D.C. Information >> | |
October 27 – 28, 2015 |
Hamlet – National Theatre LiveKāhala Theatre |
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch | |
November 7, 2015 |
Brush Up Your Shakespeare! WorkshopHawai‘i Theatre Annex Studio |
Workshop is conducted by UHM Theater Professor Paul Mitri and Eden Lee Murray, Director of Education for the Hawai‘i Theatre and the Hawai‘i Theatre Young Actors Ensemble.
Note: Workshop was filmed and posted on a password protected Vimeo site. Access is limited to students and teachers in Hawaii. To request access code and link, contact esuhawaii@gmail.com |
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November 13 – 15, 2015 |
Twelfth NightTenney Theater |
St. Andrews Priory production | |
December 8, 2015 |
Evening with the BardHawai‘i Theatre |
February 6, 2016 |
Polishing Your Shakespeare Performance WorkshopHawai‘i Theatre Annex Studio |
Workshop is conducted by Eden Lee Murray, Director of Education for the Hawai‘i Theatre and the Hawai‘i Theatre Young Actors Ensemble. | |
Thursday Feb 11 07:30 PM
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Romeo is BleedingDoris Duke Theatre |
Part of the Honolulu African American Film Festival 2016 Special thanks to community partner Pacific Tongues Directed by Jason Zeldes. USA. 2015. 93 min.Growing up in Richmond, California, a city divided by a turf war, young poet Donté Clark channels Shakespeare to help heal the ills of his community. As the artistic director of the RAW (Richmond Artists With) Talent Creative Arts Program, Clark is a young man who could have been part of Richmond’s problem, but instead uses poetry to mentor young students and to talk about the issues they face. When Donté learns that RAW Talent is facing a budget cut, he and his students decide to stage an ambitious urban adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet entitled Te’s Harmony. Using his voice to inspire those around him, he and the like-minded youth of the city hope their production will start a real dialogue about violence in the city. Will Richmond force Donté to compromise his idealistic ambitions? Or will Donté end Richmond’s cycle of trauma? Director Jason Zeldes, an editor on Twenty Feet from Stardom, delivers a potent film that highlights the power of art and spoken word to heal and inspire, and the importance of being able to express oneself in the face of deep hardship. Special guest: Director Jason Zeldes |
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February 20, 2016 |
Hawai‘i state segment of the ESU National Shakespeare CompetitionPunahou’s Luke Auditorium in the Wo International center |
2015 National Champion is from Hawaii. Recorded 2016 performances available are available on YouTube | |
February 12, 14, 16, 2016 |
Benjamin Britten’s opera A Midsummer Night’s DreamBlaisdell Concert |
Hawai‘i Opera Theater (HOT) production. | |
February 10, 2016 |
Opera for EveryoneBlaisdell Concert Hall |
Performance of Benjamin Britten’s opera A Midsummer Night’s Dream. HOT Education Department event. |
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March 15, 16, 2016 |
National Theatre Live: As You Like ItKāhala Theater |
Shakespeare’s glorious comedy of love and change comes to the National Theatre for the first time in over 30 years, with Rosalie Craig (London Road) as Rosalind. Information >> | |
April 2, 2016 |
Folger First Folio Workshop for TeachersMānele 102; |
UHM Professor of English, Todd Sammons | |
April 2 and 9, 2016 |
Early Music Hawai‘i
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Bridging the Centuries II Shakespeare Songs, Then & Now Love Songs of Petrarch & the Song of Songs Performed by The Early Music Hawai‘i Chamber SingersEarly Music Hawai‘i celebrates William Shakespeare on the 4th centenary of his death in April 1616 with a selection of his best known songs set by his contemporaries Robert Johnson, Thomas Morley and others. They then pair the songs with modern compositions by Ralph Vaughan-Williams, George Shearing and one of New York’s best known living composers, Matt Harris. |
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April 8, 9, 15, 16, 2016 |
Much Ado about NothingPaul and Vi Loo Theatre |
Directed by Troy Apostol. Information >> | |
April 2016 |
Auditions for 2016 Hawai‘i Shakespeare Festival Season |
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April 2016 |
OthelloHawai‘i Theatre |
Student Matinee Performances Apr. 20 10:00am Apr. 21, 22 9:15amPublic Performances Apr. 22 7:00pm Apr. 23 2:00pm |
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April 2016 |
Richard IIILeeward Community College Theater Lab |
Thursday, April 14 at 8:00pm Friday, April 15 at 8:00pm Saturday, April 16 at 8:00pm Thursday, April 21 at 8:00pm Friday, April 22 at 8:00pm Saturday, April 23 at 8:00pmInformation >> |
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Spring 2016 |
Hamlet
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Hawai‘i Shakespeare Festival started a Shakespeare in the Schools program a few years ago. Cost in the past has been $250 to bring the small group of actors to a school to perform. | |
April 18 – 25, 2016 |
Folger First Folio Programming for FamiliesHawai‘i State Library Branches throughout the islands |
April 2016 |
Folger First Folio Programming for FamiliesState Library |
Music from Shakespeare’s Time Thursday, April 28, 2016; 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.First Floor Reading Room, Hawai‘i State LibraryThe First Folio: A Dramatic Tale Exhibit in Front Lobby Hawai‘i State Library Through May 31, 2016Thou Sayest What? Interactive display that introduces and plays with words from Elizabethan English. Front Lobby Hawai‘i State Library Through May 31, 2016 |
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April 22 – May 25, 2016 |
Shakespeare Comes to Hawai‘iKCC Lobby |
ESU Hawai‘i KCC UH Mānoa Theater and Dance Dept.Diamond Head Theatre Hawai‘i Theatre Education Dept.Hawai‘i Shakespeare Festival Hawai‘i Mission Houses |
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April 23, 2016 |
Folktales that Inspired the BardHawai‘i State Library, 1st Flr reading room; 12noon – 1pm |
Storyteller Vicky Dworkin will share folktales that inspired some of Shakespeare’s best known plays. Actors Amy Hewitt Reynolds and Melinda Maltby Purdy will recite lines from plays that grew from those tales.A family program recommended for ages 8 and up. |
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April 23, 2016 |
The Wonder of Will LIVE: Sharing Shakespeare StoriesC-SPAN 6:00am HST |
Broadcast live via Book TV on C-SPAN2 and live streamed at Folger.edu, The Wonder of Will Live features a diverse array of actors, community leaders, artists and scholars sharing their connection to Shakespeare through compelling performances and personal stories in an hourlong-ish program hosted by Folger Director Michael Witmore.
Confirmed presenters include Supreme Court Justice Breyer; Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, Jane Chu; Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, William “Bro” Adams; actor and President Obama’s appointed Associate Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, Kal Penn; Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Clarence Page; playwright Octavio Solis; and the Reduced Shakespeare Company, the hilarious comedy troupe behind The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged). Right after the hour-long program, Book TV is hosting a short call-in show to answer questions from across the country about Shakespeare. An invitation is available to share your personal experiences and connections with Shakespeare. |
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April 25, 2016 |
HamletKCC Iliahi 123AB 1:15pm |
https://hawaiishakespeare.wordpress.com/ | |
April 25 – May 25, 2016 |
First Folio!: The Book That Gave Us ShakespeareChar Room |
First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the Human Endeavor, American Library Association, Cincinnati Museum Center, and by the generous support of Google.org and Vinton and Sigrid Cerf and other generous donor
The Sidney Stern Memorial Trust has providing funding support for security enhancements during the Hawai‘i exhibition. |
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Friday, April 29, 2016 |
First Folio Friday3:00pm – 5:00pm Ohia Building, |
Valerie Wayne is Professor Emerita of English at the University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa, where she taught for 32 years and received the Regents’ Medal for Excellence in Teaching. She has edited or co-edited six books and written many articles on Shakespeare and Renaissance drama. Her edition of Shakespeare’s play Cymbeline is forthcoming from the Arden Shakespeare in 2017. Wayne has served on the editorial board of Shakespeare Quarterly, been a trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America, and was president of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women in 2000.
“Shakespeare’s First Folio: The Book’s Own Story” This talk provides an overview of the book that will be on display for a month in Honolulu. The First Folio was a risky venture when it was printed in 1623, because it was by far the most expensive book of plays ever offered to the English public. Despite Shakespeare’s strong reputation, the publishers could not be sure it would sell. Plays were considered lowbrow entertainment, and single-volume playbooks had been banned from the best library in Oxford. The book’s compilers chose to publish Shakespeare’s plays in the format of more prestigious works, a large folio volume, and to place the most recent plays in the most conspicuous positions, framing them with ones that called attention to the playwright’s own art. This collection gives us 18 plays we never would have had without it as well as revised versions of those previously published. More than that, it preserves for posterity some of the most moving and brilliant stories that have ever been told. The story of the book itself is also worth telling, and that will be the focus here. |
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Saturday, April 30, 2016 |
Shakespeare in Hawai‘i and in Hawaiian1:00 p.m. Authors Mauka Pavilion; Hawai‘i Book and Music Festival |
Panel with the following participants:
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Saturday, April 30, 2016 |
Shakespeare and the Ali‘i Nui2:00 p.m. Authors Mauka Pavilion; Hawai‘i Book and Music Festival |
Panel: Professor Theresa Di Pasquale Professor Puakea NogelmeierModerator: Professor Craig Howes |
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Saturday, April 30, 2016 |
Invented Language3:00 p.m. Authors Mauka Pavilion; Hawai‘i Book and Music Festival |
Tony Pisculli Stephanie Keiko Kong Victoria Brown-Wilson |
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Saturday, April 30, 2016 |
The Gravedigger’s Tale4:00-5:00 p.m. Mission Memorial Auditorium; Hawai‘i Book and Music Festival |
One man show: Conceived and directed by Robert Richmond and performed by Louis Butelli, this forty minute interactive audience experience combines the text from Hamlet with some original and traditional music. 40 minute performance followed by 15-20 minute Q & A. | |
Sunday, May 1, 2016 |
HTYAE Performance of Othello4:00 p.m. Hawai‘i Theatre Keiki Stage |
http://hawaiibookandmusicfestival.com/ | |
Monday, May 2, 2016 |
English-Speaking Union National ShakespeareVivian Beaumont Theater, Lincoln Center, NYC |
Hawai‘i Branch Competition Winner Ari Dalbert wins first place in National Shakespeare Competition. https://www.esuus.org/esu/ | |
Friday, May 6, 2016 |
First Folio Friday3:00pm – 5:00pm Ohia Building, |
Dr. Laura Lehua Yim is an Assistant Professor of English at San Francisco State University. Specializing in early modern English literature, law, and culture, she is currently finishing her book Fluid Propriety: Water and Authority in Spenser and Shakespeare, which re-interprets the ubiquity of rivers and streams in Elizabethan prose, poetry, and drama in relationship to the complex Tudor history of property rights in fresh water. Part of this research includes cartographic history, particularly the importance of maps drawn for legal cases involving fresh water use rights disputes. Her work has also focused on Hawaiian legal history and current legal and political issues as well as “Native” issues in the common law diaspora.
“Hoonaueueihe, Ka Haku Moolelo Kaulana Loa o Enelani: Shakespeare in the Nineteenth-Century Hawaiian Language Newspapers.” An overview of how Shakespeare’s works enter into the pages of Hawaiian Kingdom and Territorial newspapers, 1850-1925. This talk will examine the translation and serialization of certain Shakespeare plays taken from Charles & Mary Lamb’s prose adaptations, making note of the newspaper editors’ purposes in publishing these works as well as the larger context of newspaper serialization of “kaao” (legends) and “moolelo” (histories/stories). These kaao and mo‘olelo publications in the newspapers were important contributions to the Hawaiian Kingdom’s vibrant, cosmopolitan public sphere emerging in the mid-nineteenth-century. Hawaiians playfully translated Shakespeare’s name as “Hoonaueueihe,” going beyond the usual transliteration of English authors’ names, arguably because they recognized in that name and his texts a familiar, pleasurable word-wit and a cherished insight into personal and public politics. By reading the traces of Hoonaueueihe in the Hawaiian language newspapers and public discourse, we can glimpse a refashioning of Shakespeare for use in an island kingdom centuries and miles away from his own time and home. |
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Saturday, May 7, 2016 |
Shakespeare’s Fairies & JestersHawai‘i State Library, 1st Flr reader room; 11:30AM – 12:15PM |
A Craft program for Children Ages 4 and Up | |
Saturday, May 7, 2016 |
Saturday Afternoon at the MoviesHawai‘i State Library, 1st Flr reader room; 02:00PM – 04:00PM |
Hamlet (Mel Gibson) Suitable for 12 and older. |
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Friday, May 13, 2016 |
First Folio Friday3:00pm – 5:00pm Ohia Building, |
Karen Jolly is a professor of medieval European history at UHM who studies manuscripts and scribes. She is currently working on a historical fiction novel based on a tenth century scribe named Aldred. You can follow her blog at literamepandat@wordpress.com
Turning the Pages: The Sensory Experience of Books If the play’s the thing, why are we entranced by a 400-year old book publishing the script? Shakespeare’s plays were meant to be performed, so in some sense any competent edition of the script will do for its players. What is it about this material artifact, not even in Shakespeare’s hand, that attracts our attention? Professor Jolly’s presentation will focus on the materiality of the First Folio and why it matters in the transmission of Shakespeare’s plays from the author through handwritten copies to printed editions. She will explore the move from animal parchment to paper, with samples for participants to touch, and from handwritten script to print font, including a look at what is very likely Shakespeare’s own handwriting. |
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Saturday, May 14, 2016 |
Saturday Afternoon at the MoviesHawai‘i State Library, 1st Flr reader room; 02:00PM – 04:00PM |
10 Things I Hate about You (based on The Taming of the Shrew) Heath Ledger PG-13 |
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Friday, May 20, 2016 |
First Folio Friday3:00pm – 5:00pm Ohia Building, |
Mark Heberle is professor of English at UHM. His current primary research interest is representations of war in early modern literature. He has published on Shakespeare and Spenser as well as on literary biography and Vietnam War literature, with articles and book chapters on writers that include Graham Greene, Michael Herr, Takeshi Kaiko, and J.R.R. Tolkien.
“Shakespeare’s Quartos and the First Folio” Mark Lawhorn is Associate Professor of English at Kapi‘olani Community College and Hawai‘i Project Director for The Folger’s First Folio! exhibition. He has performed in the Hawai‘i Shakespeare Festival and coordinates the annual Hawai‘i segment of the ESU National Shakespeare Competition. His work on Shakespeare has appeared in a number of books including Shakespeare and Childhood (Cambridge University Press). “Shakespeare in Hawai‘i during World War II” The remarkable story of how the U.S. military hired a well-known Shakespearean actor to oversee entertainment for the troops on O‘ahu during WWII and how he brought Shakespeare to the military masses here. |
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Saturday, May 21, 2016 |
Saturday Afternoon at the MoviesHawai‘i State Library, 1st Flr reader room; 02:00PM – 04:00PM |
Reduced Shakespeare Company: Complete Works of Shakespeare (not rated) |
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Tuesday, May 24, 2016 |
Folktales that Inspired the BardKaimukī Public Library |
Storyteller Vicky Dworkin will share folktales that inspired some of Shakespeare’s best known plays. Actors Amy Hewitt Reynolds and Melinda Maltby Purdy will recite lines from plays that grew from those tales. A family program recommended for ages 8 and up. |
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Tuesday, May 24, 2016 |
Closing Event6:00 -7:30 pm Diamond Head Theatre |
Paul Edmondson is Head of Research and Knowledge and Director of the Stratford-upon-Avon Poetry Festival for the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. He is the author, co-author, and co-editor of many books and articles about Shakespeare, including, towards the end of last year, The Shakespeare Circle: An Alternative Biography (with Stanley Wells for Cambridge University Press), Shakespeare’s Creative Legacies (just out in The Arden Shakespeare series); and Finding Shakespeare’s New Place: an archaeological biography (due out in July from Manchester University Press). His Shakespeare: Ideas in Profile is an overview of Shakespeare for the general reader, and a collection of his Shakespeare-related poetry has just been published, Destination Shakespeare (from the Misfit Press). He is Chair of the Hosking Houses Trust for women writers, a Trustee of the British Shakespeare Association, and a priest in the Church of England. He has lived and worked in Stratford-upon-Avon since 1995.
Shakespeare at 400: Why? The year 2016 marks the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare. In this lecture, Paul Edmondson, Head of Research and Knowledge at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon, and a prominent Shakespeare scholar, will present his own personally inflected overview of why and how Shakespeare has become mightily prevalent in our world culture. He will also outline the ways The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust is marking this very special Shakespearian year, not least by representing the site of Shakespeare’s family home, New Place, in the heart of Stratford-upon-Avon. Behind the Scenes of the Preservation and Conservation Department at the Folger Shakespeare Library What really happens to the books and how conservators heal their wounds and bring them home. Renate Mesmer, Head of Conservation, Folger Shakespeare Library, will be speaking about the preservation, conservation and the unusual tasks that come to conservators at the Folger. She will show the Folger conservators’ everyday work, some really fun projects, and will give inside details about the recovery of the Durham Folio, about which the BBC made a documentary called Stealing Shakespeare. |
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Summer 2016 |
2016 Hawai‘i Shakespeare Festival |
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare directed by Jason Kanda July 8 – July 17, 2016The Witch of Edmonton by William Rowley directed by Taurie Kinoshita July 22 – July 31, 2016A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare directed by Tony Pisculli August 12 – August 21, 2016For more info: http://www.hawaiishakes.org/ |
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August 9 & 10, 2016 |
Measure for MeasureKāhala Consolidated Theaters |
Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen | |
August 12, 13, 19, 20, 26, 27; 7:00 p.m. |
Two Gentlemen of VeronaHawai‘i Mission Houses |
August 30 & September 7, 2016 |
Merchant of VeniceKāhala Consolidated Theaters |
Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen | |
September 20 & 28, 2016 |
Richard IIKāhala Consolidated Theaters |
Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen |
These events are subject to change. We’re working on getting the latest event information available to you as we hear it.