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*”
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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!”
April 14th, Hudson Strode presents *Caesar Must Die*
Hudson Strode presents Paolo and Vittorio Taviani’s *Caesar Must Die* (2012) on April 14th, 2014 at the Bama Theatre. The film is set in a prison in Rome, where inmates rehearse for a prison performance of Shakespeare’s *Julius Caesar.* The screening is free and open to the public. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2177511/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_Must_Die
IF presents Timon of Athens
@ The Greensboro Room of Bama Theatre Pre-show music at 7:10pm Staged reading at 7:30pm Free Admission ($1 donations to the Bama Theatre Restoration Fund appreciated) Come see IF’s staged reading of Shakespeare’s unfinished work *Timon of Athens*, a parable of generosity, greed, and the ancient Greek economy. More importantly, it also has some ofContinue reading “IF presents Timon of Athens”
A Mid-October Night’s Dream
Demi-gods, fairies, kings and lovers from all those categories and more mingle, dance, fight, enchant and fall witlessly love in the Improbable Fictions’ staged reading of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Two performances will be given, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 20 in the Bama Theatre’s Greensboro Room, and at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 21Continue reading “A Mid-October Night’s Dream”
post.Hecuba.post
IF’s September reading of Euripides’ Hecuba packed out the Greensboro Room at the Bama Theatre. And I’ve learned that UA’s APO is offering pledge points to students that attend IF events. And the reading was reviewed by The Dome. There’s nothing tragic about that! Here are a few thoughts on the production from the director,Continue reading “post.Hecuba.post”
IF presents Euripides’ Hecuba
Improbable Fictions presents a staged reading of Hecuba, Euripides’ other great tragedy about Hecuba and the women of Troy, written before Trojan Women, and taking place about three days after the events of the second play. A timeless and terrifying tale of loss, betrayal, and revenge by a group of powerless, voiceless prisoners after the cataclysmicContinue reading “IF presents Euripides’ Hecuba”
IF: Fall lineup and casting call
I’m excited to announce that this semester Improbable Fictions is sponsored by the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies, the UA Dept. of English, and the UA College of Arts and Sciences. That means that we’ll be able to hold all our readings this fall in the Greensboro Room of the Bama Theatre. We’re alsoContinue reading “IF: Fall lineup and casting call”
Sprockets and Springes 