Juliet Speaks: on Desire, Adaptation & Play
ACSEM
This event invites you to think about sex; or rather, it invites you to think about what a young woman thinks about sex. In a short lecture on Juliet's "Gallop Apace" soliloquy from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Dr. Kristine Johanson (English Language & Culture, UvA) will discuss how remarkable both the speech is in articulating early modern female sexual desire and the play's adaptation history that has often ignored it. The talk will be followed by Johanson's short experimental play 'Juliet Speaks'.
Event details of
Juliet Speaks: on Desire, Adaptation & Play
- Date
- 13 February 2024
- Time
- 15:15 -17:00
- Location
- Perdu
About Juliet Speaks
Johanson's short experimental play Juliet Speaks (first performed at De Nieuwe Anita in 2015), stages new versions of the monologue that respond to contemporary feminist concerns about what women can and cannot speak or feel, and how their desires are represented in the public sphere.