Austin Shakespeare Presents A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Date: Monday – March 28, 2016
Time: 7:00pm
Location: The Grand Stafford Theatre
Shakespeare’s classic romantic comedy in which four young lovers flee the adult world to the forest where they are enchanted by the King and Queen of the Fairies. Learn More
Hidden Room Theatre Presents Der Bestrafte Brudermord
Date: Friday – April 1, 2016
Time: 7:00pm
Location: The Amity Building
A humorous retelling of Shakespeare’s Hamlet with puppets, the text of Der Bestrafte Brudermord (Fratricide Revenged) dates to an anonymous 1710 German manuscript. Learn More
Present Company Presents Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Date: Saturday – April 2, 2016
Time: 8:00pm
Location: The Amity Building
Austin’s award-winning Present Company will make their Brazos Valley debut with the premier of an innovative seven-person Hamlet, based on the First Folio text. Learn More
O (Dir. Tim Blake Nelson, US, 2001)
Date: Thursday – April 7, 2016
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Room 601, Rudder Tower
Featuring Julia Stiles, this modern adaptation of Othello is set in an upper class prep school and is centered on drama surrounding star basketball player Odin. Learn More
Shakespeare Behind Bars (Dir. Hank Rogerson, US, 2005)
Date: Thursday – April 14, 2016
Time: 6:30pm
Location: HECC 209
This documentary follows 20 male inmates in a Kentucky prison on their nine month process of bringing Shakespeare’s The Tempest to performance. Learn More
Were the World Mine (Dir. Tom Gustafson, US, 2008)
Date: Wednesday – April 20, 2016
Time: 6:30pm
Location: MSC 2300D, Memorial Student Center
Inspired by Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the story follows a bullied and demoralized gay student at an all-boys school. Learn More
Chimes at Midnight (Dir. Orson Welles, US, 1966)
Date: Tuesday – May 3, 2016
Time: 6:30pm
Location: MSC 2400, Memorial Student Center
The film’s plot centers on Shakespeare’s recurring character Falstaff and his father-son relationship with Prince Hal. Learn More
Hamlet (Dir. Svend Gade/Heinz Schall, Germany, 1921)
Date: Tuesday – February 2, 2016
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Room 601, Rudder Tower
Danish silent movie-star Asta Nielsen headlines this adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet which sees Hamlet made into a female character. Learn More
Throne of Blood (Dir. Akira Kurosawa, Japan, 1957)
Date: Wednesday – February 17, 2016
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Room 601, Rudder Tower
Transposed from Shakespeare’s Macbeth, this film takes place in feudal Japan with stylistic elements drawn from Noh drama. Learn More
Korol Lir (Dir. Grigori Kozintsev, Russia, 1971)
Date: Thursday – March 3, 2016
Time: 6:30pm
Location: MSC 2406, Memorial Student Center
This Soviet era film based on Shakespeare’s King Lear follows the lives of King Lear and his courtier Gloucester, documenting the madness and tragedy which befall them. Learn More
TAMU Performance Studies Presents Wittenberg
Date: Thursday – March 10, 2016
Time: 5:30pm
Location: Black Box Theatre, Liberal Arts and Arts & Humanities (LAAH) Building
Set at Hamlet’s alma mater, Wittenberg University, the play is a “tragical-comedical-historical” take on what it means to grow up and speak up. Learn More
Haider (Dir. Vishal Bhardwaj, India, 2014)
Date: Monday – March 21, 2016
Time: 6:30pm
Location: MSC 2400, Memorial Student Center
Haider is an Indian crime drama serving as a modern-day adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, set amidst the Kashmir insurgencies of 1995. Learn More