Fundación Shakespeare Argentina (FSA) and Universidad del Salvador (USAL) are proud to have hosted Dr. Charles Ney in Argentina. Dr. Ney delivered two lectures at USAL in Buenos Aires and Pilar. His lectures in Argentina referred to his wonderful research “Directing Shakespeare in America” and were much appreciated by students, teachers, researchers and enthusiasts. The lectures were translated into Spanish in a collaborative activity with Translation & Interpretation students and teachers from USAL.
We thank Texas State University for making possible for Dr. Ney to visit our country.
Watch the video:
BUENOS AIRES:
Professor Ney`s Conference took place on Thursday September 27th 2018 18:00 hs at the Main Hall of USAL in Lavalle 1854, (Buenos Aires).
Carlos Drocchi (FSA) , Verónica Repetti, (USAL) Mercedes de la Torre (FSA) & Charles Ney
Carlos Drocchi, Bianca Dasso, Victoria Cucchiaro, Mercedes de la Torre & Charles Ney
PILAR:
The Conference took place on Friday Septiember 28th 2018 14:30 hs at Campus Nuestra Sra. del Pilar, Champagnat 1599, Ruta Panamericana, Acceso Norte km 54,5 .
Mercedes de la Torre, Charles Ney, Tiggie Donati & Carlos Drocchi
Carlos Drocchi y Charles Ney
Carlos Drocchi, Charles Ney, Mercedes de la Torre & Nuria Gomez Belart
Eliana Heinrich, Rocío Ledesma, Charles Ney, Mercedes de la Torre, Ana Clara Falabella & Daniela Balabanian
Eliana Heinrich, Charles Ney, Carlos Drocchi, Mercedes de la Torre, Tiggie Donati & Nuria Gomez Belart
More pictures at: https://bit.ly/2IAFhih
Interview to Carlos Drocchi (Director of the FSA) on Dr. Charles Ney`s visit:
Brief Bio
Charles Ney is a professor in the Department of Theatre & Dance of the Texas State University where he is head of directing. Past positions include artistic director at Idaho Repertory Theatre, Manhattan Clearing House, and Mary Moody Northern Theatre.
Charles has directed at the Kennedy Center (Top Girls), Manhattan Theatre Club (Going After Cacciato), Illinois Shakespeare Festival (The Comedy of Errors), Texas Shakespeare Festival (Measure for Measure, Cymbeline, The Comedy of Errors), Idaho Repertory Theatre (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Two Booths and a Lincoln, Lost in Yonkers), Mary Moody Northen Theatre (Medea, Chicago, Fences, The Threepenny Opera, Playboy of the Western World), and Zach Theatre (On Golden Pond). His Texas State directing credits include A A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Richard III, As You Like It, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, Going after Cacciato (world premiere of Romulus Linney’s adaptation of Tim O’Brien’s novel of the same title), A Little Night Music, Transposing Shakespeare, and Tongue of a Bird. Acting credits include Leonard in Seminar, Polonius in Hamlet, Henry Boyd in The Two Lives of Napoleon Beazley (for which he was nominated outstanding lead actor – Austin Circle of Theatres) and Nonno in Night of the Iguana.
He holds a PhD in Theatre from the University of Illinois and an MFA in Directing from Southern Methodist University where he spent an additional year’s training in their MFA acting program. He also has a BFA is from Illinois Wesleyan University. He was chair at the University of Idaho and taught at St. Edward’s University. He also heads a study abroad course, “Shakespeare in England”, every summer featuring classes with RSC actors at the Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon Avon and with London theatre professionals at the Globe Theatre.
Since 2004 he has traveled to Shakespeare theaters coast to coast, interviewing over 70 artistic directors and directors about their working methods and productions. He has written articles for American Theatre on his work and just finished part two of book series, Directing Shakespeare in America:
Part one Directing Shakespeare in America: Current Practices
Part two Directing Shakespeare in America: Historical Perspectives.
Both are being published by Bloomsbury’s Arden Shakespeare division.
Directing Shakespeare in America: Current Practices
In this first substantive study of directing Shakespeare in the USA, Charles Ney compares and contrasts directors working at major companies across the country. Because of the complexities of directing Shakespeare for audiences today, a director’s methods, values and biases are more readily perceptible in their work on Shakespeare than in more contemporary work. Directors disclose their interpretation of the text, their management of the various stages of production, how they go about supervising rehearsals and share tactics. This book will be useful to students wanting to develop skills, practitioners who want to learn from what other directors are doing, and scholars and students studying production practice and performance.
“Illuminates the process of bringing Shakespeare’s plays to life on stage and makes an important contribution to both theatre history and theatre practice … Actors will find out what is required of a Shakespearean performer and what it takes to get hired in the first place. Critics and scholars will find a useful context to help them view and analyse the work. I would certainly recommend this book to anyone preparing to work with one of these directors, all of whom remain active in the profession.” – Voice and Speech Review
See more on Directing Shakespeare in America: Current Practices
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/directing-shakespeare-in-america-9781474239844/
Directing Shakespeare in America: Historical Perspectives
This unique and comprehensive study reviews the practice of leading American directors of Shakespeare from the late nineteenth to the end of the twentieth century. Charles Ney examines rehearsal and production records, as well as evidence from diaries, letters, autobiographies, reviews and photographs to consider each director’s point of view when approaching Shakespeare and the differing directorial tools and techniques employed in significant productions in their careers.
Directors covered include Augustin Daly, David Belasco, Arthur Hopkins, Orson Welles, Margaret Webster, B. Iden Payne, Angus Bowmer, Craig Noel, Jack O’Brien, Tyronne Guthrie, John Houseman, Allen Fletcher, Michael Kahn, Gerald Freedman, Joseph Papp, Stuart Vaughan, A. J. Antoon, JoAnne Akalaitis, Paul Barry, Tina Packer, Barbara Gaines, William Ball, Liviu Ciulei, Garland Wright, Mark Lamos, Ellis Rabb and Julie Taymor. Directing Shakespeare in America: Historical Perspectives offers readers an understanding of the context from which contemporary practitioners operate, the aesthetic philosophies to which they subscribe and a description of their
See more on Directing Shakespeare in America: Historical Perspectives
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/directing-shakespeare-in-america-9781474289696/
Related article: https://shakespeareargentina.org/en/fsa-with-charles-ney/