Join the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust on Wednesday 14 April for our free online monthly Research Conversation. Taking place on Zoom on the second Wednesday of every month, our Research Conversations provide you with the opportunity to attend free, online live sessions and listen to people who are engaged in Shakespeare-related research.

Orson Welles (1915–1985) adapted Shakespeare throughout his life, across continents and across media (stage, radio, television, film, and print). Less familiar are his experiments in staging other early modern dramatists, including Dekker, Jonson, Webster — and, most notably, Marlowe, from his boarding school version to his final film-script. Whether featuring Jack Carter as Mephistopheles (1937) or Eartha Kitt as Helen of Troy (1950), Welles’s Faustus productions entailed innovative casting, editing, and staging practices.

Led by Professor Scott Newstok, Rhodes College, Tennessee, USA

The event begins with a thirty minute presentation and will be followed by an open discussion.

https://www.shakespeare.org.uk/visit/whats-on/orson-welles-detour-from-shakespeare/

Book online for your free place.

All of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust's Research Conversations are free, but we encourage donations in order to support our work and keep Shakespeare's story alive.

This event is part of a special USA season of Research Conversations between April and June. We are grateful to the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C who has recommended three guest-speakers for this series, and the American Friends of The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust for their support.