{"id":2064,"date":"2025-02-18T12:56:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T17:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/?p=2064"},"modified":"2025-02-18T14:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T19:19:07","slug":"hamlet-spring-2025-tour-entry-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/hamlet-spring-2025-tour-entry-3\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHamlet\u201d Spring 2025 Tour: Entry #3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Michael Wagg<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here in Texas, it\u2019s work, work, work. In Hamlet\u2019s hands it\u2019s words, words, words<\/em>. And, in wonderfully weird Austin, it\u2019s all fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The University of Texas at Austin is a stalwart of support for the AFTLS project. Apart from our historic bases in Notre Dame, Chapel Hill and Santa Barbara, UT Austin has welcomed our week-long residencies more than most. Since the first one here in 1979 happy bands of five have touched down in this singular pocket of Texas almost thirty times to share Shakespeare. And the welcome here is as warm as ever; if not the weather, which has been rather chilly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ve had an action-packed week: of shows in the theatre at the vast Bullock State History Museum, and of workshops across this equally vast and bright campus. So, just as Joanna did at Barton Springs this week, let\u2019s jump right in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I\u2019ve led sessions with students taking courses in Leadership in Medieval and Renaissance Literature (which included a chance to hurl Shakespeare insults at their Professor); in Performance & Activism, in which we developed site-responsive readings of the opening scene of Hamlet <\/em>in the spaces around campus green; and on Heiner M\u00fcller\u2019s Hamletmachine. <\/em>One of the real treats of this work is how we\u2019re encouraged to explore texts new to us, in the context of our production, or as in this case, encouraged to return to a text we might have read many years ago as uber-keen drama students, like the mirrors we\u2019re often faced with. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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