Gender-bending Shakespeare
Concert Hall, L.R. Wilson Hall
24/09/2018, 7:00 pm - TO - 8:30 pm
Organizer: Office of the President
Concert Hall, L.R. Wilson Hall
24/09/2018, 7:00 pm - TO - 8:30 pm
Organizer: Office of the President
Writer and CBC broadcaster (Writers & Company) Eleanor Wachtel in conversation with Canadian stage icons Martha Henry and Seana McKenna.
Admission free. Register online here.
Martha Henry’s first role at Stratford was in 1962, as Miranda in The Tempest, opposite William Hutt’s Prospero. This year, at age 80, Henry is herself playing Prospero. Also playing a major male Shakespearean character at Stratford this year is Seana McKenna, 62, as Julius Ceasar. McKenna has played a male character before at Stratford, as Richard III in 2011. But her other 40-plus roles over the past 23 years at the festival have been strictly female, starting in 1982 with Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and as Diana in All’s Well That Ends Well.
Both actors are Canadian icons, so it’s fitting that yet a third illustrious woman on Canada’s arts scene, writer and CBC broadcaster, Eleanor Wachtel of Writers & Company will be on hand to interview Henry and McKenna.
More information on the The Socrates Project website.