NEXT EVENTS
'Shakespeare: Keep Calm, and Carry On'.
The Annual Friends of Shakespeare's Church (FOSC) Lecture.
Thursday 8th October. 7.30 p.m. - 8.45 p.m.
Doors open at 7.00 p.m. Refreshments available.
Our guest speaker this year is the leading and popular Shakespearian, Professor Emma Smith.
She says:
'We’ve always found the Shakespeare we need at particular moments: the national hero, the political machiavel, the poet of love. This talk discusses Shakespeare’s adaptability to different times and suggests that the plays we need now are comedies, drawing especially on Twelfth Night. I don’t suggest comedies are light and frivolous - far from it - but I do contend that they have practical comforts in an age of anxiety.'
Professor Smith is a Fellow of Hertford College, University of Oxford and a Governor of The Royal Shakespeare Company.
Past events have included
recitals by Judi Dench, Patrick Stewart and Harriet Walter;
talks by Joan Bakewell, Martin Bell, Douglas Hurd, Stanley Wells, Rowan Williams and Michael Wood;
visits to places connected with Shakespeare such as Billesley Church;
exhibitions and services.