SHAKESPEARE CLUB OF POMONA VALLEY MEETING MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2017 AT 2 PM JOSLYN CENTER, 660 N. MOUNTAIN AVE., CLAREMONT
Kyle McGruther in Measure for Measure
Guest Lecturer: Kyle McGruther
Topic: The Actor Asks His Character:
What's the Story Behind the Story?
Take on the roles of 2 Shakespearean dukes? Check.
Tour with ShakespeareAlive!? Check.
Speak to Pomona Valley Shakespeare Club? Check.
Fresh from this year’s “engaging and believable” portrayal of Duke Vincentio in the Long Beach Shakespeare Company’s production of Measure for Measure, Kyle McGruther will share his insights on developing a backstory for his character.
How much help does he receive from the director? How do his perceptions influence his interactions with other cast members?
A stage, screen, and TV actor, McGruther grew up in a military family, living in four continents and learning Japanese, French, and Italian. His acting background includes a B.A. in music as well as training in role playing, stage combat, clowning, and horseback riding.
Oh, and that other duke? Orsino in Twelfth Night with Theatre Prometheus.
Free and open to the public.
Lights refreshments served. Join us and bring friends!
MEETING ON MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2017 AT 2:00 PM
GUEST LECTURER BEATRICE CASAGRAN
Joslyn Center, 660 N. Mountain Ave., Claremont
Topic: Directing Summer Shakespeare
Can a dog do Shakespeare? Come learn all the tricks of the directing trade when Beatrice Casagran, of local Ophelia’s Jump Productions fame, shares insights gleaned from her summer productions of the Bard.
How does OJP choose the plays, audition, cast, and stage the productions at the Sontag Greek Theatre at Pomona College? Learn how Hamlet and the Ghost came to be played by the same actor. And, yes, Lady MacBark had a breakout canine role in Much Ado About Nothing.
Cuban native and former lawyer, Casagran is Founding Artistic Director of OJP and drama teacher at Diamond Bar High School. She holds an M.A in Theatre from CSUSB and her acting credits include Vanya & Sonya & Masha & Spike, Titus Andronicus, and August: Osage County. Directing credits include The Electric Baby, Tribes, Honky, and The Whale.
Light refreshments served. Join us and bring friends!
The Shakespeare Club presents special speakers
On the second Monday of each month at the Joslyn Center.
For information, please contact
Lucy Lynch (909) 717-1109 or lucylynch@aol.com
May meeTing Monday, May 8, 2017 at 1:30 PM
Dr. Lori Anne Ferrell speaking on Shakespeare and the Bible
There are well over 1,000 references to the Bible in Shakespeare’s works. Which Bible did he use, and how did he use it? Was Shakespeare a closet Catholic? Come explore answers to these intriguing questions when Lori Anne Ferrell, Chair of the English Department at Claremont Graduate University, speaks on “Shakespeare and the Bible.”
With a PHD in history from Yale University, Dr. Ferrell specializes in English Renaissance and Reformation Literature as well as Early Modern British and European History. Dr. Ferrell has been a seminar director for the Folger Shakespeare Library, an instructor for Theatricum Botanicum, and a guest curator at the Huntington Library. She is currently researching Shakespeare and botany in the Victorian era and Shakespeare and religious toleration in early modern Britain.