Speaking of Shakespeare!
Bi-monthly lecture series at Mission Valley Library
Saturday, 1-2pm
January 23, 2010 - Sampler of the Society
This lecture featured the Annual Student Shakespeare Festival; Celebrity Sonnets; and Shakespeare Musicale. It was a chance to meet and greet the Board of Directors and be entertained.
March 27, 2010 - Shakespeare's Wit and Wisdom 
Tom Leech author of Say It Like Shakespeare gave insight to succeed with the Bard's Timeless Tips for Successful Communication
May 15, 2010 - Bill Virchis
William A. Virchis, award-winning director, actor, and educator "The Reality of the Now in Shakespeare of the Past: Modern Themes of Romeo and Juliet" One of Mr. Virchis teachers was the late Marcel Marceau, world-famous mime artist, thus featuring some performance....of mime. Plus there was other surprise entertainment!
July 17, 2010 - Shakespearian Clothing - Tara Pool
Dressing a Shakespeare production nowadays is an enterprise limited only by the imagination of the costume crew (and their budget,) and San Diego has seen Will's plays set in everything from 'traditional Elizabethan' to minimalist modern black & white, from Beatlemania styles to South American guerilla fatigues, and nearly everything in between. But how would the Playwright himself have dressed his own actors?
September 25, 2010 - Scott Paulson
Scott Paulson lectures on the sound effects in Shakespeare's plays and reveals the secrets of how the actual effects were made at the Shakespearean Globe in 1600. Scott takes us beyond the live theatre stage, revealing anecdotes and practices of Shakespearean productions at radio and film sound stages. That day, we'll provide an impromptu sound score for a 1906 Shakespeare silent film and a 1940 Shakespeare radio play! This is an interactive presentation sure to delight all ages.
November 13, 2010 - Raymond and Patricia Lynch
The last of the 2010 series, "The Actors have Come Hither": Shakespeare and his Players What was it like to be an actor in Shakespeare's day - the rehearsal, the performance, the technique, presented by Raymond and Patricia Lynch.
January 8, 2011 - Kim Keeline
"Determined to prove a villain': Richard III--Guilty or Not?"
The play about Richard III by William Shakespeare is a roaring tale of a tremendous villain, but what was Richard like in real life? Those attending heard about the still unsolved issue of whether or not the real life Richard III had his two nephews killed in order to seize the throne for himself and the other possible real-life villains who might have framed him. The audience got to vote at the end of the presentation, based on the evidence presented, on whether they believed Richard was as guilty, as Shakespeare portrayed him.
July 16, 2011 - Scott A. Farrell
Arms and Armour of Shakespeare Chivalry Today Presents Arms & Armor of Shakespeare Join Scott Farrell, director of the Chivalry Today Educational Program. Attendees will get a "knightly" tour of Shakespeare's history plays, from King John to Richard III, as they learn about the armor, weaponry and battles featured in the plays, as well as in works like Macbeth, Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare fans will see the importance - both historically and dramatically - of the use and depiction of arms, armor and the ideals of chivalry in The Bard's plays
Mission Valley Library
2123 Fenton Pkwy, San Diego, CA
September 17, 2011
JONNO ROBERTS will talk about his experiences. If that name isn't familiar, then you must have missed the wonderful summer productions at the Old Globe Theatre.
This year he played Benedick in the gorgeous production of Much Ado About Nothing and a chained Caliban in the incredible The Tempest. Last year you might have seen him shine as Petruchio in Taming of the Shrew or Edmund in King Lear. He has been writing about his adventures at the Globe for the SD Union-Tribune.