Theo Black led two Eco-Macbeth events in the UK in October, including a performance workshop at Cambridge University's drama studio, and an invited guest lecture at The Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon.
The performance workshop investigated the classical elements within Macbeth, focusing on reading the Anthropocene via the embodiment of fire, air, water, and earth. The guest lecture at The Shakespeare Institute featured his four PMA eco-Shakespeare projects: Shakespearean Ecologies (Botanic Gardens); #Cymbeline-Anthropocene (Film); BIOphelia symposium and touring show; and Eco-Macbeth (in-process).
“The Cambridge workshop on Eco-Macbeth first featured a brief talk re: the Practice-based-Research work we have helmed at Cornell this fall,” said Black, “inclusive of our guest expert sessions with Ingrid Kapteyn (Sleep No More) and Tanmay Dhanania (adaptations in India) as well as PMA's student-adaptations of Shakespeare’s original text to channel its ecological references in facing our current era of environmental crises. Then, Cambridge students were guided in creating and sharing their own eco-adaptations. The next day, I gave the invited guest lecture at The Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon, sharing our four PMA Eco-Shakespeare projects facilitated with students here.”
Read more about Theo Black’s performance workshop at Cambridge
Read more about Eco-Macbeth: Nature Fights Back on Friday, November 7. All are welcome to attend. Sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor from an award by the Mellon Foundation & the Bean Fellowship.
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