BASC17011 - Lecture and Show, a Basic Program and Chicago Shakespeare Theater Partnership Series
Course Description
The Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults will once again partner with Chicago Shakespeare Theater to offer exciting lecture and play packages for select performances during their 2019-2020 season.
Join us for Shakespeare's As You Like It on Friday, May 15. Prior to the performance Basic Program Instructor Claudia Traudt will give a lecture . Choose Section 20S1 to register for As You Like It.
CST subscribers and others who have tickets for another performance date may register for the lecture only, by choosing Section 20S1L.
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Course Outline
About the Play: It’s the 1960s, when all you need is love. Free spirits escape a world gone wrong to get back to the land, a place that promises safe harbor from the corrupt ways of the city—but no one is spared here from the hazards of love. The irrepressible Rosalind takes refuge in the forest. So, too, does her love Orlando, with much to learn from the woman of his dreams, now disguised in boy’s garb. This high-spirited, music-filled adaptation infuses Shakespeare’s comedy with the hit songs of The Beatles.
Lecture Description: Danger and Delight: Two Raw Powers in Shakespeare’s As You Like It”
As You Like It is a raucous - and sometimes haunting - whirl: hilarity and odd-matched lovers (including “country copulatives”), scintillating word-play, timing and psychological aptnesses, the brooding truths of melancholy Jacques. In production, if ALL don’t join Orlando into being some way wooed into love with Rosalind / Ganymede, (pacem Gertrude Stein) “there is no there there.” But the play begins in tyranny and real danger - usurpation, attempted, planned and threatened murder, banishment. We shall explore a bit the alchemy of Shakespeare’s language bringing to pass this delight: comedy in the profound, classic sense of happy ending.
Lecturer bio: Claudia Traudt holds an MA from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Her art-making, research, and teaching explore modes of creation and perception in word and image. She is the 2006 recipient of the Graham School's Excellence in Teaching Award for the Basic Program.
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The lecture and show will take place at Chicago Shakespeare Theater on Navy Pier.
Tuition $80, includes pre-show lecture, performance ticket and drink coupon. Show ticket and drink coupon will be handed out at the theater on the evening of the performance by Basic Program staff (not the box office). Discounted parking is available by having your parking ticket stamped in the lobby of Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Choose Section 20S1 to register.
Tuition $10, for pre-show lecture only. Discounted parking is available by having your parking ticket stamped in the lobby of Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Choose Section 20S1L to register.