A Year of Lear • 2017–2018
We hope you were able to participate in some of our Year of Lear activities!
The year culminated in a rich performance by local actors who spent the full year immersed in the play. These are some of the events we created:
September 6 2017 • Krishnan Venkatesh discussion on Good and Evil in King Lear
September 16 2017 • Theatre Walk Santa Fe A scene with Paul Walsky as Lear and Lynn Goodwin as Goneril
November 4 2017 • Robert Benedetti All-day seminar: A Life with Lear
December 5, 2017 • Midwinter Celebrations in King Lear’s Court with Suzanne Cross, specialist chef
December 9 - 12, 2017 • Stratford Shakespeare Festival Acting Workshops with Edward Daranyi, Associate Director of Education at Stratford Festival of Ontario for local actors (free workshop for the cast of ISC King Lear)
Thursday, January 25, 2018 • Shakespeare Acting Master Class with Rodney Cottier, Head of Drama at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art for local actors (free workshop for the cast of ISC King Lear)
Began February 2018 • Shakespeare Close Readers: A six-month close read and discussion of King Lear, open to the public
February 3 2018 • Upstart Crows Lear for the Young: Held its introduction to “Speak What We Feel,” a King Lear workshop for budding Shakespeareans ages 10 to 18
February 2018 • King Lear Downtown Treasure Hunt: Where locals and visitors alike follow the Santa Fe map and “speak the speech” to downtown shops to gain treasures! Click here to see the clues and the map.
February 6 2018 • Natalie Elliot, tutor at St. John’s, Workshop: On “The Winter’s Tale, or the Alternate King Lear”
March 6 2018 • Jim Kaplan on “The Greatness of King Lear,” a celebration of Shakespeare’s greatest play.
April 29 2018 • Krishnan Venkatesh, tutor at St. John’s “King Lear in Performance,” viewing and discussing various film versions of Act 1, scene 1
April 3 2018 • Jocelyn Davis, author of The Greats on Leadership, A talk on “Lear, Sears, and the Eight Leadership Traps”
April 28 & 29 2018 • Upstart Crows King Lear workshop and scenes show at Adobe Rose Theatre
May 24 2018 • An evening with James Shapiro, Award-winning professor at Columbia University and author of 1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear. This event was held at the New Mexico History Museum auditorium.
May 25 2018 • Intimate event and discussion with James Shapiro at a private home where he talked about Shakespeare in America.
September 1 2018 • Long Dead but Well Read: King Leir (a comedy, in that no one dies) An Elizabethan play registered in 1594, before Shakespeare’s King Lear • We saw how a contemporary of Shakespeare’s staged the same story
September 29 2018 • Lynn Robson, tutor at Oxford University, awarded “Most Acclaimed Lecturer in the Humanities,” presented a fascinating seminar that juxtaposed King Lear and As You Like It
September 2018 performance • Adobe Rose Theatre The Tragedy of King Lear