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Global Shakespeare Research Fellow Dr Preti Taneja launches her novella, 'Kumkum Malhotra'
On August 3 Preti Taneja joined writers Sophie Mayer, Juliet Jacques, Sarah Crewe and Caroline Bergvall to launch her novella 'Kumkum Malhotra' and raise funds to save the Feminist Library.
The Lighthouse Literary Journal shared a fantastic video of Preti reading from the book, which you can watch online now.
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Exciting partnership with Dash Arts At University of Warwick
The members of Global Shakespeare have just completed the first leg of their momentous new partnership with Tim Supple and Dash Arts at an eleven-day workshop held at the University of Warwick’s Arts Centre. Supple, director of the theatre company Dash Arts is known for RSC productions of Shakespeare such as his 1996 Comedy of Errors 1996, and more recently for his radical experimentation in multi-cultural theatre, which includes two Arabic-language productions, Thousand and One Nights and Babel, and the multilingual Indian A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 2006. Michael Billington of the Guardian praised Supple’s Dream as “the most life-enhancing production of Shakespeare’s play since Peter Brooks’s”.
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Theatre Without Borders - Global Shakespeare in Paris
The Global Shakespeare team, Director David Schalkwyk and Research fellows, Preti Taneja and Katherine Hennessey have just taken part in the Theatre Without Borders Conference, Translation, Imitation and Boundary-Crossing in the Transnational Theatres of Early Modern Europe and Beyond, held at the NYU in Paris Center.