Olivier’s Shakespeare: Violence & Memory

Date

October 30, 2010

Time

09:00–17:00

Place

King's College London, Strand Campus: London

Room

Anatomy Theatre

Price

See below

Recently, the British Film Institute created new prints of Olivier’s Shakespeare films and there has been a quiet revival of interest amongst film enthusiasts, yet there has been relatively little Olivier-related work by Shakespeare-on-film scholars in recent years. We aim to kick-start the revival – with the support of the National Theatre (especially their archivist, Gavin Clarke) – by way of a conference addressing Olivier’s role in the development of Shakespeare in performance, both on stage and on screen, in the twentieth century and will do so in the context of the 2010 Arts & Humanities week focus on war, memory and representation. This conference will be the culmination of the London Shakespeare Centre Launch Season – a month of activities to engage our alumni network and publicly launch the London Shakespeare Centre. After the conference, participants, members of the College and the general public are invited to a free evening event at the National Theatre Studio, which will bring together actors who worked with Laurence Olivier in the early days of the National Theatre to consider his influence as a performer and director. Participants include Terry Coleman, Barry Norman, Bill Gaskill, Daniel Rosenthal and Colin Bell. A fascinating and entertaining evening is in store.

Speakers

Helga Keller who (as Helga Cranston) was Olivier’s film editor for both the Hamlet and Richard III films: she is now in her late eighties and has remarkable memories of her flight as a Jewish teenager from Nazi Germany in 1939, her time as a film editor in London in the 1940s and, specifically, of working on the Shakespeare films with ‘Larry’. She will feature in a Q&A with Professor Gordon McMullan.

Other speakers will include

Key UK-based Shakespeareon-stage-and-screen scholars, including Tony Howard (Warwick), Luke McKernan (British Library) and Judith Buchanan.

Cost: Delegate fees for the day conference are £45 (£25 concessions and alumni) – once booking is open there will be a link to the booking form from the King’s website - in the meantime please reserve your place with us by email: shakespeare(at)kcl.ac.uk

Part of King's College London  Arts & Humanities Week

Organizers

Inside Out Festival

Registration

For this event no registration is necessary on the Inside Out Festival website but may (if stated above) be required elsewhere