BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1047@nicholaspriory.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260425T143000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260425T163000 DTSTAMP:20260127T195903Z URL:https://nicholaspriory.com/events/live-shakespeare-on-screen-south-wes t-shakespeare-festival/ SUMMARY:‘Live’ Shakespeare on Screen (South West Shakespeare Festival) DESCRIPTION: \;\n\nAs part of the South West Shakespeare festival\, Lig htbear Lane is delighted to welcome Shakespeare scholar Prof Pascale Aebis cher for a lecture to explore how live performances of Shakespeare's plays find their way onto our screens.\n\nShakespeare’s plays were written fo r live performance in a very specific theatrical culture\, for particular actors to perform on the stages of early modern London\, to an audience th at understood and expected conventions such as direct address\, non-natura listic staging\, blackface performance and boys playing women’s parts. T hose conventions shaped how audiences understood\, for example\, the final scene of Othello\, where Richard Burbage in blackface make-up smothered a teenage boy in whiteface make-up before launching into a soliloquy. Since then\, not only have theatrical conventions changed quite fundamentally\, but so has the manner in which we consume live Shakespeare. The advent of digital theatre broadcasting technologies\, with multi-camera set-ups\, h as brought ‘live’ Shakespeare to our screens\, whether in a local arts cinema or our homes.\n\nThis lecture will take you on a journey through t he backstage and offscreen decision-making processes that re-shape theatri cal productions of Shakespeare’s plays for present-day screen audiences. It will pay particular attention to examples where broadcast technologies \, which aim very hard to remain ‘invisible’ to screen audiences in or der to produce a sense of theatrical immersion\, affect how viewers decode gender\, race\, and power relations. Drawing on examples from Shakespeare broadcasts\, it will show how conventions of direct address\, speed of ed iting\, camera shots with zoom lenses\, casting and lighting for skin tone s affect what we see\, whom we see\, and how we interpret what we see when we watch ‘live’ Shakespeare in the cinema.\n\nDoors at 1:30pm to grab a drink at the bar and enjoy our "Impressions of Venice" exhibition inspi red by our The Merchant of Venice performance on 24th April.\n\nPascale Ae bischer is Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Performance Studies a t the University of Exeter. She has a long-standing interest in the relati onship between early modern performance conventions and their translation into present-day media\, whether those are modern stages with their full t echnological apparatus\, or cinematic and digital performances. Her books include Shakespeare’s Violated Bodies: Stage and Screen Performance (Cam bridge\, 2004)\, Screening Early Modern Drama: Beyond Shakespeare (Cambrid ge\, 2013)\, Shakespeare\, Spectatorship and the Technologies of Performan ce (Cambridge\, 2020) and Viral Shakespeare: Performance in the Time of Pa ndemic (Cambridge\, 2021). During and after the pandemic\, she worked on p rojects concerned with the resilience of the theatre industry in the UK an d the G7 nations. She is now returning to working on Shakespeare with an e dition of Titus Andronicus.\n\n\n\nDirections\nSt Nicholas Priory is on Mi nt Lane with walking access from Fore Street or Bartholomew Street West.\n \nThe nearest car park is Mary Arches Street\, which is a five-minute walk . Exeter Central railway station is a ten-minute walk. The bus station is a 15-minute walk with many buses stopping on the High Street which is t en minutes away.\n\nAccess\nUnfortunately\, due to the nature of this hist oric building\, there is no wheelchair access for our upstairs rooms.\n\nF acilities\nOur outdoor toilet block can be made available on request.\n\nI f you have any questions or concerns about your visit please email admin@ nicholaspriory.com ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nicholaspriory.com/wp-content/uploads/20 26/01/camera-and-theatre-chairs.png CATEGORIES:Arts,Featured,Opening LOCATION:St Nicholas Priory\, Mint Lane\, Off Fore Street\, Exeter\, Devon\ , EX4 3BL\, United Kingdom X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Mint Lane\, Off Fore Street \, Exeter\, Devon\, EX4 3BL\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=St Nicholas Priory:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260329T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR