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Cognitive Disability as Straw Man

I’d like to point to two articles that have been trending on Facebook in recent weeks to point to a common thread I’ve seen in conversations about ‘mental illness.’ I’m using scare quotes here because the phrase ‘mental illness’ is itself problematic, for it implies that any deviation from statistically normal human cognition (called neurotypicality)Continue reading “Cognitive Disability as Straw Man”

Rude Mechanicals Presents All’s Well that Ends Well

Rude Mechanicals opens its season with “All’s Well that Ends Well.” The show is free and open to the public. The show runs from May 26 to May 30. All performances will take place at Manderson Landing. Music starts at 7:30; show starts at 8:00. In case of rain (it will likely rain), the showContinue reading “Rude Mechanicals Presents All’s Well that Ends Well”

Strode presents Love’s Labour’s Lost

The Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies presents its final film of the 2014-15 Shakespeare Film Series, Kenneth Branagh’s 2000 Love’s Labour’s Lost. Free and open to the public. The Facebook Event Love’s Labour’s Lost by William Shakespeare The King of Navarre and his three attendant lords make a pact to forswear women for threeContinue reading “Strode presents Love’s Labour’s Lost”

Forbidden Planet, Wednesday!

Join us this Wednesday, March 11th at 7:30pm in Tuscaloosa’s Bama Theatre for Forbidden Planet! If you consider yourself a film or science fiction geek and haven’t seen Forbidden Planet before, consider this Wednesday your chance to get right with the world before your geek license is revoked. This movie sets up so many tropes that will come toContinue reading “Forbidden Planet, Wednesday!”

Hamlet tonight!

We’ve had some good press recently for tonight’s performance of Hamlet. Check out the articles in The Crimson White and The Tuscaloosa News. You don’t want to miss the show! Remember, it’s free and open to the public, and seats are available on a first come first seated basis. There will be a merchandise table in the lobby selling largeContinue reading “Hamlet tonight!”

Deliver Us From Eva, Program Notes

Here you can find the program notes for last week’s screening of Deliver Us From Eva. The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare Although we are accustomed to thinking of Shakespeare as the author of The Taming of the Shrew, this title is first formally established in reference to an anonymous play entered in theContinue reading “Deliver Us From Eva, Program Notes”

Reviews of ASC’s Tour, Method in Madness

The American Shakespeare Center’s 2014/2015 tour Method in Madness is coming to the University of Alabama on Sunday, March 1st to perform Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Details are here. Some of our graduate students recently attended Method in Madness shows in Birmingham, and I want to share their impressions of the great work ASC is doing. ASC’s MuchContinue reading “Reviews of ASC’s Tour, Method in Madness”

Doctor Faustus audio

If you missed tonight’s staged reading of Doctor Faustus, you can find the audio here. The reading starts at about 4:03.

IF presents Doctor Faustus, Feb 12

This Thursday, Feb 12 at 7:30pm in the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, IF presents a staged reading of Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus. Come join us! Free and open to the public.

Hamlet!

On Sunday, March 1st, the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies will host the American Shakespeare Center’s Method in Madness Tour. The ASC will be performing Shakespeare’s Hamlet in Morgan Auditorium that night at 7:30pm with pre-show music beginning at 7:00pm. The show will be free and open to the public. Seating is limited and available onContinue reading “Hamlet!”