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These performances are the latest event from the De-Centred Shakespeares Network.
This is a group of theatre makers and academics comprising of Creative Producer Ben Crystal, Henry Bell and Stephen Collins at the University of West Scotland (UWS) and theatre companies Cena IV-Shakespeare Company, based in Sao Paulo, Brazil; Salaam Shakespeare Naatak Company, based in Mumbai, India; and Act For Change, based in Jamestown, Ghana.
Each company was invited to film a scene from Shakespeare's Pericles, adapting the text as they saw fit, into their own language(s), and shooting on the streets (or seas) of their community, all in one shot, no editing.
Ben Crystal worked with the students of UWS to create adaptations of the Gower Chorus pieces, to offer links between the three global films. These were both filmed, and live-performed. The filmed versions are the first take, each unscripted, devised, improvised in the moment of filming. In the opening Gower piece, the students played the game, "if you don’t hold a light you hold the storytelling stick."
The commissioned pieces from around the globe were be screened and live-streamed, and were followed by a panel.
Funding for the project was provided by the Division of Arts and Media, School of Business & Creative Industries, UWS.
Micro-Conference Details
Decentering Shakespeare is a developing area of scholarship and practice, born from a greater engagement with digital practices that emerged from lockdown and clear need to develop a Shakespeare scholarship fit for the 21st century.
This event built on the Global Shakespeares event hosted by the Performance Research and Practice Cluster at UWS in 2021 and is facilitated by the actor, director, creative producer, and explorer of Shakespeare original and modern rehearsal and production practice expert, Ben Crystal.
At the event UWS students worked with Act for Change (Ghana), Cena IV (Brazil) and Salaam Shakespeare Naatak Company (India) to share practice and approaches to decentering and decolonising Shakespeare. The resulting work was the subject of an article in The Conversation.
The micro-conference gathered the project partners together to deliver the next stage in the project. A mixture of practice and scholarly responses, the conference focused on critically exploring decentered Shakespeare practice, pedagogy and scholarship, with the following themes:
Approaches to decentered collaborative practice
Shakespeare and decentered site
Approaches to decentered Shakespeare scholarship
The full conference was available to attend in person or online.
Panel:
Prof Bridget Escolme (QMUL)
Dr. Abdul Karim Hakib (University of Ghana)
Prof Christopher Thurman (Wits University, SA)
Rob Myles (The Show Must Go Online)
Dr Ifeowula Aboluwade (University of Beyreuth)
UWS Academic Leads:
Dr Henry Bell, Senior Lecturer in Performance
Dr Stephen Collins, Reader in Performance
These performances are the latest event from the De-Centred Shakespeares Network.
This is a group of theatre makers and academics comprising of Creative Producer Ben Crystal, Henry Bell and Stephen Collins at the University of West Scotland (UWS) and theatre companies Cena IV-Shakespeare Company, based in Sao Paulo, Brazil; Salaam Shakespeare Naatak Company, based in Mumbai, India; and Act For Change, based in Jamestown, Ghana.
Each company was invited to film a scene from Shakespeare's Pericles, adapting the text as they saw fit, into their own language(s), and shooting on the streets (or seas) of their community, all in one shot, no editing.
Ben Crystal worked with the students of UWS to create adaptations of the Gower Chorus pieces, to offer links between the three global films. These were both filmed, and live-performed. The filmed versions are the first take, each unscripted, devised, improvised in the moment of filming. In the opening Gower piece, the students played the game, "if you don’t hold a light you hold the storytelling stick."
The commissioned pieces from around the globe were be screened and live-streamed, and were followed by a panel.
Funding for the project was provided by the Division of Arts and Media, School of Business & Creative Industries, UWS.
Micro-Conference Details
Decentering Shakespeare is a developing area of scholarship and practice, born from a greater engagement with digital practices that emerged from lockdown and clear need to develop a Shakespeare scholarship fit for the 21st century.
This event built on the Global Shakespeares event hosted by the Performance Research and Practice Cluster at UWS in 2021 and is facilitated by the actor, director, creative producer, and explorer of Shakespeare original and modern rehearsal and production practice expert, Ben Crystal.
At the event UWS students worked with Act for Change (Ghana), Cena IV (Brazil) and Salaam Shakespeare Naatak Company (India) to share practice and approaches to decentering and decolonising Shakespeare. The resulting work was the subject of an article in The Conversation.
The micro-conference gathered the project partners together to deliver the next stage in the project. A mixture of practice and scholarly responses, the conference focused on critically exploring decentered Shakespeare practice, pedagogy and scholarship, with the following themes:
Approaches to decentered collaborative practice
Shakespeare and decentered site
Approaches to decentered Shakespeare scholarship
The full conference was available to attend in person or online.
Panel:
Prof Bridget Escolme (QMUL)
Dr. Abdul Karim Hakib (University of Ghana)
Prof Christopher Thurman (Wits University, SA)
Rob Myles (The Show Must Go Online)
Dr Ifeowula Aboluwade (University of Beyreuth)
UWS Academic Leads:
Dr Henry Bell, Senior Lecturer in Performance
Dr Stephen Collins, Reader in Performance
