UpDate - Vol. 15, No. 10, Page 4
November 2, 1995
Workshop set on 'Romeo & Juliet'

     Alan Dessen, a professor at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill and national director of ACTER, will conduct a workshop on
Romeo and Juliet, with actors from the London Stage, at 1:30 p.m.,
Saturday, Nov. 11, in Room 110 of Memorial Hall.
     The workshop, entitled "The Actor, the Scholar and the Script,"
is free and open to the public and is an added bonus to the acting
company's week-long residency at UD, which includes performances of
Romeo and Juliet, on Tuesday, Nov. 7, and Friday and Saturday, Nov. 10-
11, in Mitchell Hall.
     Dessen has published many books and articles on Elizabethan stage
practices. An ardent theatregoer, he has attended and reviewed
countless productions by the Royal Shakespeare Company and other major
performers of works by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. He serves
on the advisory board of the Globe Theatre Trust, which is responsible
for reconstruction of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre on the Thames River
in London.
     His many publications include Elizabethan Drama and the Viewers
Eye and Elizabethan Stage Conventions and Modern Interpreters, and he
currently is compiling a dictionary of English Renaissance stage terms
with Leslie Thomas.
     For more information, contact the Department of English at 831-
1974.