This week’s free webinar is postponed. Shakespeare Center LA will continue to support the Black community by asking for everyone to pause and draw attention to the Black Lives Matter movement. We encourage everyone to give their support to the Black community.. Give financially, petition for bias awareness training in your community and work-place, brainstorm and act on the changes possible in your own community in order to bring justice, healing, and freedom to Black and Brown people.
Shakespeare Center LA is looking into ways that the Bard Talks can share ideas for change as well as support changes in the community to create a more diverse, creatively inclusive, and just world.
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Shakespeare’s villains run the gamut from mischievous (Puck) to monstrous (Iago.) Ultimately, the audience is left to form their own judgment of the crimes they’ve witnessed, but does the writer leave us any clues as to how he ranks his creations on a scale of wickedness?
Brian Lohmann investigates three villains: Richard III, Lady Macbeth and Iago to discover who Shakespeare judges redeemable and whose "soul may be as damned and black as the hell whereto it goes.” Watch the free live-stream webinar on Zoom Saturday, June 27 at 10am Pacific. >>Register now<<
PRESENTER BIO: Brian Lohmann is currently on the faculty at Pepperdine University, Columbia College of Hollywood and the Los Angeles Shakespeare Institute. Brian also directs, acts and teaches for Impro Theatre, Los Angeles. Stage credits include Off-Broadway, A.C.T., The Old Globe, OSF, The Broad Stage, The Garry Marshall Theater, The Wallis-Annenberg, The John Ford Amphitheatre, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Laguna Playhouse and The Magic Theater. He has received Garland, Drama-Logue, and StageScene LA Awards. Brian was core faculty for the American Conservatory Theatre’s MFA program, and has been a guest instructor at Stanford, The Guthrie Theatre, The Public Theater’s Shakespeare Lab, The Old Globe/USD, Oregon Shakespeare Festival. His book, “Shakespeare’s Secret Superpowers: How to Use Improvisation to Teach Shakespeare,” is available for publication.
ABOUT BARD TALKS: Now in its second season, Bard Talks hosted by Shakespeare Center LA are free webinars presented by distinguished scholars who reveal Shakespeare's secrets about acting, directing, sonnets, food and more!