In collaboration with Gary Watt

The lifetime of an individual, as outlined by William Shakespeare in As You Like It is the unfolding framework for both the familiar and the unexpected – in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s words, “the inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history”.

Part-theatre, part-concert programme celebrating the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, A Strange Eventful History draws on the work of scholar Gary Watt on performance rhetoric for the Royal Shakespeare Company and his forthcoming Shakespeare’s Acts of Will, and on contemporary settings from The Song Company’s Call for Scores.

A selection of Shakespeare settings by Banister, Byrd, Johnson, Landsman, and Morley
Dances including:
Munday’s Joy
The Queenes Alman
La Volta
Mal Sims

Blackheath: Saturday 18th June, 3.00pm Blackheath Uniting Church
Canberra: Saturday 25th June, 6.00pm Wesley Uniting Church
Newcastle: Thursday 23rd June, 7.00pm Newcastle Conservatorium
Wollongong: Sunday 26th June, 3.00pm Wollongong ART Gallery
Sydney: Sunday 19th June, 3.00pm Independent Theatre North Sydney
Sydney: Tuesday 21st June, 7.30pm Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC
Berry: Monday 27th June, 7.00pm Berry Uniting Church