An international symposium presented by The S Word in partnership with Shakespeare at Notre Dame, The Theatre School at DePaul University, the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts (College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame) and Professor Peter Holland, McMeel Family Professor in Shakespeare Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

CO-CONVENERS: Siiri Scott, Head of Acting and Directing, Affiliate Faculty of the Initiative on Race and Resilience, University of Notre Dame (US), Co-editor of "Stanislavsky and Race" and Dr Gerald 'Jay' Paul Skelton, Lecturer, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (UK), Co-Editor of "Stanislavsky and Race".

The event will include paper presentations, practical/workshop sessions and panel presentations.

The work of William Shakespeare created between 1589 and 1613 has for many represented the apex of text-based performance and stagecraft in the Western world for hundreds of years. The "system", an approach to acting developed by Russian actor, director and teacher Constantin Stanislavsky during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, can be seen as the oxygen that contemporary theatre artists breathe in training, rehearsal and performance. Is it possible for us to find ways for our modern, naturalistic tradition of acting influenced by Stanislavsky's "system" to address the particular demands of Shakespeare? How might we as scholars, practitioners, teachers, and performers-in-training develop accessible and inclusive approaches to these "two traditions" of Western performance for the twenty-first century?

Please note: This is a live/in person, it is not available to be streamed.