What: “Shakespeare and the memory of Rome”
Where: Different locations in Rome
When: 7-20 April 2016
A very important international conference (or better a set of coordinated events) is soon going to take place in Rome: “Shakespeare e la memoria di Roma”. The three public universities of Rome, together with the municipality, propose a series of events on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare from April 7 to April 20 2016. The focus will be on the presence of the city of Rome in many of his masterpieces: Titus Andronicus, The Rape of Lucrece, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Cymbeline.
On April 14th, at the RomaTre University (Via Ostiense 161), there will be a continuous projection of parts of movies entitled: “A Place Calling Itself Rome”, as weel as a conference in the AULA MAGNA:
Ombre di Roma/Ghosts of Rome – morning (Maria Del Sapio Garbero, Università Roma Tre, The Ruined Arch: Rome’s Body and Memory in Titus Andronicus; Andrew Hadfield, University of Sussex, Shakespeare, Rome and the Urban Imagination in Early Modern England, John Gillies, University of Essex, Primal Scene and Brave New Worlds in Shakespeare, Peter Holland, University of Nôtre Dame, Seeing Shakespeare’s Rome) and La scena dell’io/Performing the Self – afternoon (Andrew Gurr, University of Reading, Headless Coriolanus, Richard Wilson, Kingston University, A Broken Coriolanus: Eliot’s March on Rome, Ramie Targoff, Brandeis University, Fashioning Death in Verona and Egypt, Daniela Guardamagna, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”, The Vision of Lucrece in Early Modern Poetry).
The events are so many and so interesting that we warmly reccommend to have a look at the official website.
EVENTS
THEATRE
Saturday, 9 April 2016
8.30 pm
Teatro Palladium (Università Roma Tre)
Piazza Bartolomeo Romano, 8
Of Ruin, Time, and Beauty. Shakespeare and the Destiny of Rome
Music, dance, and drama performance inspired by the Roman plays
by Luca Aversano
To be performed again at Teatro Palladium on Sunday 10 April at 6.00 pm (reservation required)
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Monday, 11 April 2016
7.00 pm
A Journey through the Imperial Fora with Julius Caesar
(with a special opening of the Forum of Caesar)
A theatrical experiment in Rome’s archaeological sites
directed by Marcello Cava
(reservation required)
***
Wednesday, 13 April 2016
7.00 pm
A Journey through the Imperial Fora with Julius Caesar
(with a special opening of the Forum of Caesar)
A theatrical experiment in Rome’s archaeological sites
directed by Marcello Cava
(reservation required)
***
Thursday, 14 April 2016
8.30 pm
Teatro di Villa Torlonia
Via Lazzaro Spallanzani, 1/A
Of Ruin, Time, and Beauty. Shakespeare and the Destiny of Rome
Music, dance, and drama performance inspired by the Roman plays
by Luca Aversano
(reservation required)
***
Friday, 15 April 2016
8.30 pm
Teatro Palladium (Università Roma Tre)
Piazza Bartolomeo Romano, 8
Apprehending Rome: the City in the English Mind’s Eye
A performance/reading by the London Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre devised and conducted by Patrick Spottiswoode (Director of Shakespeare’s Globe Education, London) and Andrew Hadfield (University of Sussex)
Musical contributions by Carocoro directed by the chorus master Eduardo Notrica
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Saturday, 16 April 2016
7.00 pm
A Journey through the Imperial Fora with Julius Caesar
(with a special opening of the Forum of Caesar)
A theatrical experiment in Rome’s archaeological sites
directed by Marcello Cava
(reservation required)
***
CINEMA
Thursday, 7 April 2016
10.30 am
Sapienza Università di Roma
Aula Magna, Rettorato
P.le Aldo Moro, 5
Cesare deve morire (Caesar Must Die)
by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (Italy, 2012)
Film screening with the participation of the theatre director Fabio Cavalli and a number of the film’s actors
***
Monday, 11 April 2016
1.00 pm
Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”
Macroarea di Lettere e Filosofia
Edificio B, Aula Moscati
Via Columbia, 1
Coriolanus, directed by Ralph Fiennes (UK, 2011)
***
Tuesday, 12 April 2016
9.00 pm
Casa del Cinema
Largo Marcello Mastroianni, 1
Screening of a collage of silent films inspired by Shakespeare
by Giorgio Gosetti
***
Wednesday, 13 April 2016
9.00 pm
Casa del Cinema
Largo Marcello Mastroianni, 1
Titus Andronicus, directed by Julie Taymor (USA, 1999)
***
Thursday, 14 April 2016
Università Roma Tre
Via Ostiense 161
Collage Film-Loop
“A Place Calling Itself Rome”
***
Friday, 15 April 2016
9.00 pm
Casa del Cinema
Largo Marcello Mastroianni, 1
Julius Caesar, directed by Stuart Burge (GB, 1970)
***
Sunday, 17 April 2016
6.30 pm
Casa del Cinema
Largo Marcello Mastroianni, 1
Coriolanus, directed by Josie Rourke
National Theatre Live’s 2014 broadcast of the Donmar Warehouse (GB) production,
courtesy of the British Council Italy
***
CONCERTS
Monday, 11 April 2016
4.00 pm
Accademia dell’Arcadia
Piazza Sant’Agostino, 8
Arias and duets by Rossini, Bellini and Verdi
from operas inspired by Shakespeare
performed by the students of Conservatorio Santa Cecilia
***
Friday, 15 April 2016
1.30 pm
Sapienza Università di Roma
Facoltà di Lettere e filosofia
Aula 1
P.le Aldo Moro, 5
Such Sweet Thunder by Duke Ellington (USA, 1957)
***
Saturday, 16 April
5.30 pm
Sapienza Università di Roma
Aula Magna
P.le Aldo Moro,
London Brass
Elizabethan, classical and modern music
EXHIBITIONS
7-20 April 2016
Sapienza Università di Roma
Aula Magna and Biblioteca Alessandrina
P.le Aldo Moro, 5
Bibliographic exhibition on William Shakespeare
***
Teatro Argentina
Sala Squarzina
Largo di Torre Argentina, 52
Photographic exhibition by Renato Rizzi on the Gdansk Shakespeare Theatre
In collaboration with the Embassy of Poland
Sapienza Università di Roma
Aula Magna del Rettorato
P.le Aldo Moro 5
Cesare deve morire
Proiezione del film dei fratelli Taviani (Italia, 2012)
Intervengono il regista teatrale Fabio Cavalli e alcuni dei protagonisti
***
Lunedì 11 aprile
ore 13.00
Università degli studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”
Macroarea di Lettere e Filosofia
Edificio B, Aula Moscati
Via Columbia 1
Coriolanus, regia di Ralph Fiennes (UK, 2011)
***
Martedì 12 aprile
ore 21.00
Casa del Cinema
Largo Marcello Mastroianni 1
Proiezione di un collage di film muti ispirati a Shakespeare
a cura di Giorgio Gosetti
***
Mercoledì 13 aprile
ore 21.00
Casa del Cinema
Largo Marcello Mastroianni 1
Titus Andronicus, di Julie Taymor (USA, 1999)
***
Giovedì 14 aprile
Università Roma Tre
Via Ostiense 161
proiezione continua del collage film
“A Place Calling Itself Rome”
***
Venerdì 15 aprile
ore 21.00
Casa del Cinema
Largo Marcello Mastroianni 1
23 pugnali per Cesare, di Stuart Burge (GB, 1970)
***
LECTURES
LECTURES AND SEMINARS
Monday, 11 April 2016
11.00 am
Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”
Macroarea di Lettere e Filosofia
Edificio B, Aula Moscati
Via Columbia, 1
Alessandro Serpieri, Università degli Studi di Firenze
‘Enter the Crowd’: Julius Caesar and Coriolanus
***
Monday, 11 April 2016
4.00 pm
Accademia dell’Arcadia
Piazza Sant’Agostino, 8
Round table
Shakespeare and Italian opera
Convened by Andrea Chegai, Franco Piperno, Antonio Rostagno
A concert will follow to be performed by the students of Conservatorio Santa Cecilia:
arias and duets by Rossini, Bellini and Verdi
from operas inspired by Shakespeare
***
Tuesday, 12 April, 2016
The British School at Rome
Via Antonio Gramsci, 61
9.30-12.00 am
Seminar
Power and Communication in Shakespeare’s Roman Plays
Convenors: Maddalena Pennacchia, Università Roma Tre and Iolanda Plescia, Sapienza Università di Roma
Maurizio Calbi, Università di Salerno
Lisanna Calvi, Università di Verona
Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University
Marta Minier, University of South Wales Cardiff
Laura Tosi, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia
—
2.00-4.00 pm
The Roman Plays and the Material Culture in Shakespeare’s London
Roy Stephenson, Museum of London
Chair Christopher Smith, British School at Rome
***
Wednesday, 20 April 2016
5.00 pm
Roma nel Rinascimento
Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo
Piazza dell’Orologio, 4
Shakespeare and the Decadence of the Hero
Franco Marenco, Università degli Studi di Torino
CONFERENCE
13- 16 April 2016
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Shakespeare and the Memory of Rome
Programme
Wednesday, 13 April 2016
10.30 am
The Capitol
Aula Giulio Cesare
(Entrance from Portico del Vignola)
Conference Opening
Opening Remarks
Keynote Lecture
Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University,
‘The Noblest Roman of Them All’: Shakespeare’s Interiority and the Secret Life of the Stage
Chair Rui Carvalho Homem
(simultaneous interpretation)
MuSa Choir conducted by the chorus master Paolo Camiz
—
1.00-3.00 pm
Reception
Sponsored by the Lions Italia Distretto 108 L Cultural Committee
(by invitation)
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3.30-7.00 pm
Roma mondo / Rome as Globe
Andrea Giardina, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Roma e il teatro della politica (Rome and the Theatre of Politics)
Michael Dobson, The Shakespeare Institute – University of Birmingham,
Shakespeare’s Rome and the Emergence of National Theatres
Michael Neill, Auckland University, ‘Romaine Tragedie’: the Originality of Titus Andronicus
Chair Silvia Bigliazzi
Break
Keir Elam, Università di Bologna, ‘Cleopatra a Gipsy’: The Egyptian Queen’s Progress
between Alexandria, Rome and London
Robert S. Miola, Loyola University Maryland, Remembering Greece in Shakespeare’s Rome
Chair Roger Holdsworth
(simultaneous interpretation)
Thursday, 14 April 2016
Università Roma Tre
Aula Magna, Rettorato
Via Ostiense, 161
9.30 am – 1.00 pm
Ombre di Roma / Ghosts of Rome
Maria Del Sapio Garbero, Università Roma Tre, The Ruined Arch: Rome’s Body and Memory in Titus Andronicus
Andrew Hadfield, University of Sussex, Shakespeare, Rome and the Urban Imagination in Early Modern England
Chair Alessandra Marzola
Coffee Break
John Gillies, University of Essex, Primal Scene and Brave New Worlds in Shakespeare
Peter Holland, University of Nôtre Dame, Seeing Shakespeare’s Rome
Chair Piero Boitani
Lunch
—
3.00 – 6.00 pm
La scena dell’io / Performing the Self
Andrew Gurr, University of Reading, Headless Coriolanus
Richard Wilson, Kingston University, A Broken Coriolanus: Eliot’s March on Rome
Chair Rossella Ciocca
Coffee Break
Ramie Targoff, Brandeis University, Fashioning Death in Verona and Egypt
Daniela Guardamagna, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”, The Vision of Lucrece in Early Modern Poetry
Chair Paola Colaiacomo
***
Friday, 15 April 2016
Sapienza Università di Roma
Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia
Aula 1
P.le Aldo Moro, 5
9.30 am – 1.00 pm
Rappresentare la fine / Staging the End
Gilberto Sacerdoti, Università Roma Tre, Staging an End: Coriolanus, Rome and Cyclical History
Rosy Colombo, Sapienza Università di Roma, I Am Fire, and Air
Break
David Hillman, University of Cambridge, Staging Partings in the Roman Plays
Nadia Fusini, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Rome Desired
Chair Laura Di Michel
Lunch
—
3.00-6.00 pm
Nel laboratorio dei drammi romani/Editing the Roman Plays
Gary Taylor, Florida State University, Titus Andronicus: One Rome or Two?
Alessandro Serpieri, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Shakespeare Editing Plutarch
Break
Claudia Corti, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Fashioning and Refashioning Coriolanus in Modernity
Terry Bourus, Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis, Editing and Staging Antony and Cleopatra
Chair Simonetta de Filippis
***
Saturday, 16 April 2016
10.00 am
Teatro Argentina
Largo di Torre Argentina, 52
Cymbeline
A study in performance
concluding a workshop directed by Gianluigi Fogacci
with the students of the Scuola di teatro e perfezionamento professionale, Teatro di Roma
Coffee break
12.00 pm
Julius Caesar in performance
Screening of a video montage of theatrical and cinematic fragments
Convened by Antonio Calbi and Laura Caretti. Contributions by Antonio Calenda, Masolino d’Amico, Luigi Proietti, Daniele Salvo, and Patrick Spottiswoode
Law and the Humanities Rome 