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Leeward Community College holds a Semester of Shakespeare 2013 featuring a lineup of four public lectures and activities. This year’s events are organized around Shakespeare’s gender-bending comedy Twelfth Night.

A 2008 winner of the Wo Innovation in Teaching Award and brainchild of Leeward CC literature professors Susan Lum and Michael Nester, the Semester of Shakespeare seeks to deepen and to animate students’s engagements with the Stratford bard by providing students a venue to showcase their research and creative energies.

All events are open to the public and, with the exception of the performance of Twelfth Night in the Leeward CC Lab Theatre, are free.

Semester of Shakespeare events

  • Wednesday, February 27, 9–9:50 a.m., Leeward CC Theatre Mainstage—Leeward CC theatre actor and student producer Jonathan Reyn leads a discussion, “Cross-Dressed Lovers,” on aspects of cross-dressing in theatre as well as demonstrates female-to-male drag transformations.
  • Monday, March 18, 11–11:45 a.m., Leeward CC lab theatre—“Pidgin Shakespeare,” features renowned local actor, playwright and director Troy Apostol who shares his experiences of working on a pidgin adaptation of Twelfth Night, as well as discusses the finer points of adapting Shakespeare’s work to Hawaiʻi settings.
  • April 11–13 and 18–20, 8 p.m., Leeward CC Lab Theatre—Directed by Leeward CC Theatre instructor Betty Burdick, the student-generated production of Twelfth Night will feature concepts and performances by students of Drama 260, Dramatic Performance. Tickets are $10.
  • Wednesday, April 17, 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m., Leeward CC Eucalyptus Courtyard—“A Day in Illyria” features student-created displays depicting concepts related to both Twelfth Night and the life and times of Shakespeare’s era. Accompanying the student presentations will be music by the Royal Hawaiian Band and the Leeward CC Vocal Ensemble, 9:45–10:45 a.m., and performances of scenes from the Drama 260 production of Twelfth Night, 12–12:30 p.m.
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