The Untitled Othello Project: Untitling Twelfth Night – A Practicum
Facilitated by Jessica Burr, Keith Hamilton Cobb, and ensemble members of the Untitled Othello Project
“The process of “Untitling” being developed by The Untitled Othello Project is the removal through open-ended, frank, and supported discussion of all presumption that Shakespeare’s texts over generations have imposed upon us. In this process, nothing is sacred. Ideally, we bring to the table people across myriad disciplines to question the assumptions that we as readers, educators, performers, and theater-makers of the texts perpetually have made and continue to make; people gathered around a shared text, reimagining our complicities, our passions, and our hopes for a different future. For this practicum hosted by ASC and the Blackfriars Conference, and in collaboration with the students of the Shakespeare & Performance Graduate Program at Mary Baldwin University, we depart from our two years of work on Othello, and begin with a new text: Twelfth Night. Let’s sit down together and engage in the creative discomfort of being human. All are welcome.”
Thursday, November 2, 10am at the MBU Wharf Space. End time TBD.
2023 Blackfriar’s Conference in Staunton, VA