Dig deeply into our Shakespeare productions this season with a special weekend of lectures, discussions and hands-on activities. In partnership with UCSC’s Shakespeare Workshop and The Humanities Institute, this is a wonderful opportunity to learn more about each play during the day and then enjoy the production that same evening.

This year, Weekend with Shakespeare will be held at the UCSC Campus on August 17th (Hamlet) and August 18th (As You Like It).

Admission is free to all, but seating is limited! Please register below to reserve your seats.

Schedule for Weekend with Shakespeare

Saturday, 8/17 — Hamlet

• 11:00 Welcome (Sean Keilen, UCSC)
• 11:15 Actor Panel (Charles Pasternak and members of the company, SCS)
• 12:15 Boxed lunch (courtesy of Shakespeare Workshop)
• 1:00 Visiting Scholar (Claire McEachern, UCLA)
• 2:00 End of program

Sunday, 8/18 — As You Like It

• 11:00 Welcome (Sean Keilen, UCSC)
• 11:15 Actor Panel (Charles Pasternak and members of the company, SCS)
• 12:15 Boxed lunch (courtesy of Shakespeare Workshop)
• 1:00 Visiting Scholar (Claire McEachern, UCLA)
• 2:00 End of program

* On both days, the Visiting Scholar will be available in the Grove before the performance to do a “Five Things” talk.

Sean Keilen is Professor of Literature and UC Santa Cruz, the founder of Shakespeare Workshop, and Head of Dramaturgy at Santa Cruz Shakespeare.

Charles Pasternak is Artistic Director at Santa Cruz Shakespeare, before which served as Artistic Director of The Porters of Hellsgate Theatre Co in Los Angeles for over fifteen years. He has had a wide-ranging career as an actor and director at theatres across this country including American Players Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles, three seasons with The Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis and four with Shakespeare Santa Cruz.

Claire McEachern is Professor of English at the UC Los Angeles. She is the author of Believing in Shakespeare: Studies in Longing (Cambridge, 2018); The Poetics of English Nationhood, 1590-1612 (Cambridge, 1996); and editor of eight of Shakespeare’s plays including the Arden 3 Much Ado About Nothing (2015). Her essay collections include the Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy (Cambridge, 2nd edition, 2015), and, with Debora Shuger, Religion and Culture in Renaissance England (Cambridge, 1997).