36-in-6 Project Offerings (2010-2016)

Department of Theatre Productions

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (spring 2011), dir. Hartley. Included a guest lecture on the play by Peter Holland (Notre Dame University): Disfigured Dreams and the Problem of Marriage in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Twelfth Night (spring 2012), dir. Bumgarner.

Romeo and Juliet (spring 2013), dir. Vesce.

The Shrew Project (spring 2014), an adaptive workshop production of The Taming of the Shrew which played in campus and toured local high schools, dir. Mizell and Hartley

Merry Wives (Fall 2014), an adaptation of The Merry Wives of Windsor, dir. Mizell.

The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Fall 2015), based on the 1602 (First Quarto) text, dir. Vesce. Also featured a guest lecture by Paul Menzer (Mary Baldwin College) on staging Hamlet Q1.

As We Like It, a selection of scenes from As You Like It performed by students (dir. Hartley) with musical selections from the play performed by the music department’s jazz ensemble, and interspersed with brief lectures by SIA faculty, Drs. Hartley, Menikoff and Munroe (April 2016).

Guest Company Performances

Macbeth, Actors from the London Stage, March 2015

Othello, Actors from the London Stage, October 2013. Including guest lecture by Dr. Ayanna Thompson (George Washington University): “Othello in the Twenty First Century: To Perform or Not to Perform”

The Merchant of Venice, Actors from the London Stage, October 2012

The Tempest, Actors from the London Stage, November 2011

Guest Lectures