A meeting-place for teachers, theatre makers, high school learners, university students, academics and anyone interested in Shakespeare in South Africa!
Meet Tholwana Dyosopu, the brilliant musician creating songs that update and adapt Shakespeare's sonnets.
Listen to Tholwana perform, and learn more about her work, in recent episodes of @Tsikinya_Chaka podcast SHAKE THE SWORD! … or read more here:
https://t.co/NKTqu3djUJ
Shakespeare’s sonnets like you’ve never heard them before …
Join singer-songwriter Tholwana Dyosopu, the TCC’s Artist in Residence for 2026, on the latest episode of SHAKE THE SWORD!
Links to your podcast platform of choice here:
https://t.co/6ZFZKqqyQb
Teachers! Don’t miss these two free Shakespeare workshops at the @MEMOrients “New Encounters” conference taking place in Cape Town in December.
Sat 13th (10am): Play the Knave with @educasions
Sun 14th (10am): Breakfast and Brainstorm
Register here: https://t.co/XsY0eAocVq
Please submit proposals (250 words) and a short bio (150 words) to the organizing committee at [email protected] by 1 March 2025. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by late March.
We invite proposals for papers, panels, and workshops that address cultural histories of medieval (500-1450 CE) and early modern (1450-1750 CE) encounters between Europeans, especially the English, and the Islamic world across Africa, Asia, and Europe.
🚨EXCITING NEWS🚨 MEMOs are very happy to announce that we will be hosting our first conference this year! The theme will be ‘New Encounters’ and it will take place from 11th-14th December 2025 in Cape Town, South Africa and Online. Please find the CFP below:
A quick reminder that there is another free preview screening of SPEAK ME A SPEECH at @Woordfees in Stellenbosch tomorrow, 13 October, at 2pm.
Shakespeare in Afrikaans, Setswana and isiZulu (with a glimpse behind the scenes). Thanks again @EasyEquities!
https://t.co/Lwz7iSOhqM
Just a few weeks to go until @Woordfees preview screenings (10 & 13 October) of Speak Me A Speech.
Anelisa is a new @EasyEquities fan - as he explains in this video, “anybody can and everybody should” use this accessible investment platform! (Sign up at https://t.co/LtkhGbKLnl)
We are in the beautiful Pam Golding Theatre at @BaxterTheatre today, shooting @AnelisaPhewa talking about the Speak Me A Speech project. Anelisa’s isiZulu translation of Shakespeare’s “anti-xenophobic speech” from Sir Thomas More is one of the first five amazing monologues.
@WitsUniversity The UT students whose lives James enriched over decades must number in the thousands. His light shone brightly to guide others. What a tremendous loss.
Condolences to his wife Laurel and to the many, many friends, colleagues and former students who are mourning his passing. /3
… bringing out the best in them. I had the good fortune of being able to observe his passion, commitment, insight, good humour and gentleness when I visited Winedale last year.
James was a generous collaborator and dozens of @WitsUniversity students also learned from him. /2
Desperately sad to hear of the death of James Loehlin, director of the Shakespeare at Winedale programme and a much-loved professor at @UTAustin. James was a brilliant and inspirational teacher, theatre maker and mentor. He had a great gift for working with young people and … /1
TCC director Chris Thurman is running the Otter Challenge and raising funds for @WitsUniversity students. Please consider supporting this worthy cause!
Fantastic workshop taking place @WitsUniversity this morning! @GinaBloom5 and Lauren Bates (@educasions) are presenting mixed reality game @PlayTheKnave to a group of teachers who are learning about new ways to introduce their students to Shakespeare in a fun and accessible way.
Details: Sat 5 August (Christ Church College, Midrand) or Sat 12 August (Wits University, Braamfontein) from 9:00-12:00, followed by lunch.
Read more: https://t.co/3RFccoDbDY
Register (5 August): https://t.co/yClgEN5D5n
Register (12 August): https://t.co/lChYB0clIt
Gauteng teachers! Here is a fantastic opportunity to discover a new classroom tool for teaching Shakespeare.
On 5 and 12 August, @GinaBloom5 and Lauren Bates will be offering free workshops on using the Mixed Reality game @PlayTheKnave to introduce Shakespeare to your learners.
In “Lyric Voices, Cultural Translations, and Dialogues across Time and Space: Shakespeare and Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911-1984)”, @Qatildildar12 discusses the film Haider and explores “lyric thinking”, both in the early modern period and in the present day.
https://t.co/0moeVcXezH
We are excited to share two brilliant video resources from the recent “Shakespeare Towards An End” conference! Here are the keynotes by Ruben Espinosa & Jyotsna Singh. Thank you @respinosa1564 & @Qatildildar12 for inspiring all the #ShakeSpier delegates.
https://t.co/Wb8P1jPv2K
In “The Way To Dusty Death: Shakespeare and Tomorrow”, @respinosa1564 interrogates how past uses of Shakespeare (all our yesterdays) have aligned him and his work with oppressive structures of power, before pointing to promising Shakespearean futures:
https://t.co/bQS2h9826F