The Victorian World. Featuring a PlayMakers Repertory Production of Charles Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby
The Richard A. Soloway Seminar
December 4-5, 2009
In conjunction with a PlayMakers Repertory Production of Charles Dickens’s Nicholas Nickleby, the Humanities Program is offering a seminar in memory of Richard A. Soloway, an expert on Britain and one of our program’s most popular speakers. |
| Our seminar will focus on the imperial dimensions of Victorian life, look to costumes as an expression of class, gender roles, and conspicuous consumption, and consider Dickens’s depictions of children and the general Victorian nostalgia for childhood innocence. |
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Topics and Speakers
Infant Phenomena: Writing and the Stage in Dickens and Victorian England
Laurie Langbauer, Professor of English
Mass Production and Social Distinction: Costume in Victorian Britain
Jade Bettin, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Dramatic Art
"Half English and Half I Don't Know What": Victorian Empire at Home and Abroad
Philip Stern, Assistant Professor of History, Duke University
The Victorian World
A panel discussion with our speakers
Time and Cost
Beginning at 4:30 p.m. on Friday, December 4. Part I of the optional play follows. Seminar resumes from 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, December 5, 2009. Part II of the optional play follows. The tuition is $125 ($110 by September 4). Tuition for teachers is $62.50 ($55 by September 4). 10 contact hours for 1 unit of renewal credit. The optional dinner on Friday evening is $20.00. The optional play ticket is $45.00 for the two-part performance.
FOR TEACHERS
Thanks to the generosity of the PlayMakers Repertory Company, complimentary tickets to Nicholas Nickleby, Parts I & II, on Friday, December 4 and Saturday, December 5, are available to you on a first-come, first-served basis. You must be a currently-employed, full-time, public or private school K-12 teacher or community college instructor. Please see the registration information in the back of the brochure. PlayMakers Repertory Company is committed to the integration of arts in education, and to offering educators resources to make theater a part of a diverse and creative curriculum. For more information, please visit www.playmakersrep.org or call 919-962-2491.
PlayMakers Page to Stage
The Repertory Company has chosen to share the experience of creating the largest show in their history via a blog on their website. To read about it, visit: http://playmakersrep.blogspot.com/
For information about lodging click here.
Co-Sponsored by the General Alumni Association.
For information about GAA discounts and other scholarships available to Humanities Program participants, click here.
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