July 11 - July 16, 2016

Welcome to the 57th McMaster Stratford

Shakespearean Seminar

McMaster StaffKaren McQuigge `90, Director, Alumni Advancement

Graham Roebuck `66, Academic DirectorKathleen D’Amico `89, Program ManagerLaura Escalante `97, Program Manager

Amber Stuckey `14

LecturersPeter CalamaiPeter CockettLois KivestoAllan PeroKel Pero

Graham RoebuckGraham Abbey

Bios on actors from the Stratford Festival will be available upon your arrival at Stratford.

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Location Monday, July 11 3:00 pm- 5:00 pm Seminar registration The Parlour Inn

5:00 pm Welcome Reception The Parlour Inn

5:30 pm Welcome Dinner and Talk “Check That For Print” with Journalist Peter Calamai ’65

The Parlour Inn

Tuesday, July 12 9:30 am Lecture: Breath of Kings: Rebellion with Peter Cockett Waterloo Stratford Campus 10:45 am Lecture: Breath of Kings: Redemption

with Graham Roebuck Waterloo Stratford Campus

12:00 pm Lunch The Parlour Inn 2:00 pm Breath of Kings: Rebellion Tom Patterson Theatre 8:00 pm Breath of Kings: Redemption Tom Patterson Theatre

Wednesday, July 13 8:45 am Post-performance Discussion on Breath of Kings: Rebellion & Breath of Kings: Redemption

Waterloo Stratford Campus

9:30 am Lecture: “Watch His Star Go Out Alone:” Arthur Miller’s All My Sons with Allan Pero

Waterloo Stratford Campus

10:45 am Speaker from Stratford Festival: Graham Abbey Waterloo Stratford Campus 12:00 pm Lunch The Parlour Inn 2:00 pm All My Sons Tom Patterson Theatre 8:00 pm A Chorus Line Festival Theatre 10:00 pm Post show chat: A Chorus Line with Matt Alfano & Melanie

McInenly (15 minutes after performance) Festival Theatre Lobby

Thursday, July 14 9:30 am Talking Theatre Tom Patterson Theatre 10:45 am Lecture: “Ambition and Agency in Macbeth” with Kel Pero Waterloo Stratford Campus 12:00 pm Lunch & Post Performance Discussion on All My Sons The Parlour Inn 2:00 pm The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (optional) Avon Theatre 8:00 pm Macbeth Festival Theatre

Friday, July 15 8:45 am Post-performance Discussion on Macbeth (light refreshments served)

Waterloo Stratford Campus

9:00 am Registration - 2 Day Group Waterloo Stratford Campus 9:30 am Lecture: “’I like this place / And willingly could waste my

time in it.’ Time in the forest of As You Like It,” with Graham Roebuck

Waterloo Stratford Campus

10:30 am Actor Discussion Groups featuring Randy Hughson, Scott Wentworth, Sarah Afful and Kate Hennig

Waterloo Stratford Campus

12:00 pm Lunch - 6 Day group in Churchill Room Lunch - 2 Day group in Windsor Room

The Parlour Inn

5:00 pm Dinner Revival House Restaurant 8:00 pm As You Like It Festival Theatre

Saturday, July 16 8:45 am Post-Performance Discussion: As You Like It The Parlour Inn 9:30 am Lecture: A Little Night Music

“A Weekend in the Country” with Lois Kivesto The Parlour Inn

10:45 am Lecture: Shakespeare in Love with Peter Cockett The Parlour Inn

12:00 pm Lunch The Parlour Inn 2:00 pm A Little Night Music Avon Theatre 8:00 pm Shakespeare in Love Avon Theatre

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Itinerary

For more information on the performances, visit the Festival’s website at http://www.stratfordfestival.ca

Date Time Performance

2:00 pm Chorus Line (Weekend Group) Festival Theatre

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Meet Our Speakers

PETER CALAMAIPeter Calamai was a reporter and editor-in-chief at The Silhouette, McMaster’s student newspaper, while earning his B.Sc. in Physics. After graduation, he became a general assignment reporter for The Hamilton Spectator, launching a 40 year career with leading Canadian newspapers as a photographer, reporter and editor. With postings in Ottawa, Vancouver, London, Nairobi and Washington, Peter has covered topics from armed conflicts around the world

to issues facing the Supreme Court of Canada.

Peter has also built a national profile as a volunteer with numerous organizations including the Science Media Centre of Canada, Environment Canada, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, the Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network, Youth Science Canada, and the Canadian Science Writers’ Association where he was a founding member.

Peter has also always been a scholar at heart. He has been the Max Bell Chair in Journalism at the University of Regina and both a visiting associate professor and adjunct research professor of journalism at Carleton University.

A three-time winner of Canada’s highest journalistic honour, the National Newspaper Award, Calamai has also received the Michener Award for Meritorious Public Service Journalism, the Peter Kirkby Memorial Medal, a UNESCO Literacy Award, and the Royal Canadian Institute’s Sandford Fleming Award.

A newly appointed member of the Order of Canada, Peter is also a member of the McMaster Alumni Gallery, recipient of an honorary doctorate from McMaster, and a winner of the MSU Alumni Association Lifetime Achievement Award.

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PETER COCKETTPeter Cockett is Assistant Professor in the Theatre and Film Programme at McMaster University’s School of the Arts where he teaches acting, devising, and collective creation, and directs the department’s main stage production. His research for the past six years has been focused on the Queen’s Men, the dominant theatre company of the early Elizabethan stage. From 2005-7, he served as the principal professional consultant for the Shakespeare and the

Queen’s Men project (SQM), directing King Leir, Famous Victories of Henry V and Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, in addition to the project’s initial workshop performance: An Experiment in Elizabethan Comedy. He is the principal creator of Performing the Queen’s Men, an interactive website designed to disseminate the findings of the SQM project, and has recently published a new performance edition of King Leir for the Queen’s Men Editions, providing director’s notes and performance commentary. He has published on early modern performance practices and the use of performance as a tool for scholarship and research. He is a founder member of the Centre for Performance Studies in Early Theatre at the University of Toronto, the research wing of the long standing Poculi Ludique Societas (PLS), the University of Toronto’s Medieval and Renaissance Players. For the PLS, he has directed the Digby Mary Magdalene (2003) and the double bill of George Peele’s The Old Wives Tale and the Chester Antichrist (2004). In 2006, he directed his own adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth for the Toronto Fringe Festival, entitled Macbeth’s Kitchen. At McMaster he has directed Henry V (2005), Eurydice (2008), created three new plays: In The Kitchen (2006), lovedotcomm (2007) and Stressed! A Musical Review (2010), and an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet entitled Hamlet’s Dorm. Peter is also a professional actor. Most recent credits include: The Memory of Water (Tarragon Theatre/Elgin Winter Garden), Murdoch Mysteries (Shaftesbury Films), The Border (White Pine Pictures) Recipe for a Perfect Christmas (Lifetime), Riding the Bus with my Sister (Hallmark), and Head in the Clouds (Directed by John Duigan).

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LOIS KIVESTOA University of Toronto music graduate (viola), Lois Kivesto received a Ph.D. in theatre from New York University, with a dissertation on the theatre of James Lapine. Her essay “Comedy Tonight!” is published in Stephen Sondheim: A Casebook, part of the Garland Reference Library of the Humanities. In Toronto, Lois is a researcher and speaker for Acting Up Stage Company. She recently served as a dramaturgical consultant on Into the Woods for Hart

House Theatre, and on Sunday in the Park with George for Talk Is Free Theatre. Lois is a frequent contributor to Stratford Festival talks, Shaw Festival publications, and McMaster Seminar Series and Alumni Association lectures. This season, she is presenting a Stratford Table Talk on A Little Night Music, and speaking to the McMaster Alumni on Shaw Festival’s production of Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

ALLAN PEROAllan Pero is Associate Professor of English and Core Faculty at the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada. He is taking over as Chief Editor of the journal English Studies in Canada in 2017. He is co-editor (with Gyllian Phillips) and contributor to a volume entitled The Many Façades of Edith Sitwell, which is forthcoming in Fall 2016 from U of Florida Press. Recent publications include articles on

Jacques Lacan and Economics, an article on Camp as Immanuel Kant’s Unwritten Fourth Critique, “A Camp Fugue,” for Modernism/modernity, and “'A Box and Cox Melodrama’: Love, Truth, and Politics in Wyndham Lewis's The Revenge for Love.” He has accepted and forthcoming articles/chapters on Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts, Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier, and Katherine Mansfield's stories "Bliss" and "Psychology" in the journal Katherine Mansfield Studies. He is currently working on An Encylopedia of Cultural Theory, with Kel Pero for the U of Toronto Press, and a book-length project on Camp and Modernism. He also produces art and poetry in his spare time.

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KEL PEROKel Pero holds a PhD in English literature and is the owner of KMP and Associates Creative Communication Services, through which she offers editing, writing, research, translation, web design, and social media services. She has been an actor for over 20 years, and is a proud member of ACTRA and Canadian Actors' Equity. She was a co-founder of Ottawa theatre company Plosive Productions, and has done program notes and given

lectures for the Stratford Festival for a decade, and is currently at work on a play.

GRAHAM ROEBUCKAs Professor of English, now Emeritus, his scholarly interests and teaching focussed on Early-Modern literature and literary history, including the scientific literature of the period. He was President of the John Donne Society, a Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Renaissance Studies at U Mass, Amherst and President of the Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium, Toronto. Recent studies of Renaissance scepticism and religious polemic appeared in

scholarly journals in addition to chapters in the Oxford Handbook of John Donne. Most recently an essay on aspects of seventeenth-century philosophy – “From Donne to Great Tew” - was published in the John Donne Journal. He co-edited and contributed to The Mysterious and the Foreign in Early-Modern England. He is preparing an edition of the works and a biography of Sidney Godolphin, celebrated in his day as a poet and political thinker, who was killed in battle in 1643. He was Director of the Seminars from 1986 to 2004, and subsequently became Academic Director. He was a lecturer in the inaugural Hamilton Third Age learning series. In 2014 he hosted the first “Literary Legends by Sea and by Land” – discussions of “Golden Age” literature and drama, on Queen Mary 2 and at Oxford, Stratford-on-Avon and London, and in 2015 a comparable tour “Paris, the Seine and Normandy: The English Connection.” In October 2016 he will host a tour of the Elbe from Berlin to Prague and on to Munich, Nuremberg, and Vienna.

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GRAHAM ABBEY2016: Bolingbroke/Henry IV in Breath of Kings: Rebellion, Henry IV, Bates in Breath of Kings: Redemption and conceiver, adaptor and associate director of Breath of Kings. 17th season.

Stratford: Philip the Bastard (King John), Iago (Othello), Posthumus (Cymbeline), Henry V, Macbeth, Romeo, Henry VIII, Jaques, Prince Hal (Henry

IV), D'Artagnan (The Three Musketeers), Petruchio (Shrew), Aufidius (Coriolanus), Berowne (Love's Labour's Lost), Algernon (Earnest), Hap Loman (Death of a Salesman).

Elsewhere: Hamlet (Resurgence); Jeff Skilling (Enron) (Theatre Calgary); Sam Byck (Assassins) (Talk Is Free/Birdland); Charles (The School for Scandal), Valère (The Molière Comedies) (Chicago Shakespeare).

TV: Series lead: The Border (CBC). Recurring: Degrassi, Murdoch Mysteries, Covert Affairs, Republic of Doyle. Guest star: Flashpoint, Lost Girl, Rookie Blue, Warehouse 13, Bomb Girls. Recent: Remedy (Global).

Film: Take This Waltz, Casino Jack, 388 Arletta Avenue, Defendor, Stealing Paradise, Angels and Ornaments. Recent: Milton's Secret, Frontier.

Radio: Afghanada (CBC).

Awards: Dora Award, Monte Carlo Television Festival nomination.

Directing: The Winter's Tale (Groundling Theatre).

Et cetera: Artistic Director, Groundling Theatre (Groundlingtheatre.com).

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Parking Map

Revival House Restaurant, 70 Brunswick St, Stratford, ON N5A 6V6

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