SPOKEN WORD: 2016 Kentuck Festival of the Arts

Here’s the schedule for the Spoken Word Tent at this year’s Kentuck Festival of the Arts! Improbable Fictions events are below in bold: Saturday, October 15 9:30 am, Steven Hobbs 10:30 am, Improbable Fictions, The Letters of Augusta Evans 11:30 am, Jack Day and the OLLI Storytellers 12:30 pm, Tall Tales and Telling Truths 1:30Continue reading “SPOKEN WORD: 2016 Kentuck Festival of the Arts”

IF, Kentuck, and Augusta Evans Wilson

IMPROBABLE FICTIONS WANTS YOU! Why: We need readers! What: In collaboration with UA’s Hoole Special Collections Library, Improbable Fictions will be reading at the Spoken Word Tent of this year’s Kentuck Festival of the Arts. When: October 15 and 16, 2016 Where: Beautiful Kentuck Park  in Northport, Al. What: We will be reading selections fromContinue reading “IF, Kentuck, and Augusta Evans Wilson”

Bechdellian Shakespeare

This Thursday! Readers Steve Burch Mark Hughes Cobb Alanna Fagan Erin Hildebrand Mark Hulse Annie Levy Bert McLelland Courtney Parker Deborah Parker Mary B. Prondzinski Will Ramsay Sarah Scarr Exa Skinner Matt Smith Elizabeth Thiel Directors Steve Burch Mark Hughes Cobb MK Foster Nic Helms Courtney Parker Deborah Parker Respondents Prof. Michelle Dowd, Hudson StrodeContinue reading “Bechdellian Shakespeare”

Shakesfilm: Richard Burton’s 1964 *Hamlet*

On Monday, August 22nd, at Tuscaloosa’s Bama Theatre, the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies presents Richard Burton’s 1964 *Hamlet,* the first film in our Shakespeare in Film Series for 2016-17. Film starts at 7:30pm, and the concession stand will be open.Free and open to the public! For more information about the film, visit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Burton%27s_HamletContinue reading “Shakesfilm: Richard Burton’s 1964 *Hamlet*”

Bechdellian Shakespeare

Or to be more accurate, Bechdellian/Wallacian Shakespeare. On September 15th, IF will present a selection of Shakespearean scenes focused on women alongside a town hall discussion of women in Shakespeare. Right now we’re casting for those scenes (which, as per our usual, will be delivered on-book). If you’re interested in being involved, message me onContinue reading “Bechdellian Shakespeare”

Love’s Labour’s Lost, next week!

Back for its 14th season, Tuscaloosa’s The Rude Mechanicals will present Shakespeare’s comedy “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” 8 p.m. each night, June 1-4, in The Park at Manderson Landing; in case of rain, the show will move indoors to the Allen Bales Theatre, Rowand-Johnson Hall on the UA campus. Free admission. Live pre-show music begins atContinue reading “Love’s Labour’s Lost, next week!”

Why People Don’t Perform The Mandrake

(crosspost from irrecollections.com)   Aside from poor acting, poor design, and poor direction (most versions commit one, two, or all of these sins), most productions appear to misunderstand–and therefore misrepresent–the text. Though a lot of misconception stems from a misrepresentation of Machiavelli himself (preferring the mustache-twirling villain over the historian, linguist,  and political writer), a lot ofContinue reading “Why People Don’t Perform The Mandrake”

IF in March

We’ve got two staged readings this month: Machiavelli’s Mandrake on March 10th, directed by Jacob Crawford, and Aristophanes’ Women at the Assembly on March 25th, directed by Prof. Steve Burch of UA’s Dept. of Theatre and Dance and held in conjunction with the Dept. of Modern Languages & Classics conference “Women, Democracy, and the Ideology of Exclusion.” Both shows will takeContinue reading “IF in March”

IF Spring 2016

Just a brief note about everything IF will be doing this spring: There will be a production of Aristophanes’ The Assembly Women, directed by Steve Burch, on March 25th at the Tuscaloosa Cultural Arts Center. The production will be part of “Women, Democracy, and the Ideology of Exclusion from Antiquity Through the Early 20th Century”, an international conferenceContinue reading “IF Spring 2016”