Film scholar Tim Hedgepeth to deliver ‘Shakespeare from Stage to Screen’ lecture in San Antonio

The excellent McNay Art Museum show Designing Shakespeare Throughout the Ages has several ancillary events scheduled throughout the spring.

Those include a rare screening of the full, four-hour, unabridged adaptation of Hamlet by Kenneth Brannagh (1996) and a lecture by theatre director and film scholar Tim Hedgepeth, which artfully and dutifully chronicles the history of Shakespearean adaptations. The lecture, “Shakespeare from Stage to Screen,” will take place at the McNay this Thursday.

Hedgepeth is mining a rich field that includes many iconic films filled with legendary performances. Some, like Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet (1968) and Hamlet (1990), are faithful, classicist adaptations. Others, such as Ran (1985) and Throne of Blood (1957), Akira Kurosawa’s adaptations of King Lear and Macbeth, respectively, are epic re-imaginings. Still others, say Jean Luc Godard’s King Lear (1987), are avant-garde, meta and ultramodern interpretations for their time.

Free, 6-7 p.m. Thursday, May 1, McNay Art Museum, Chiego Lecture Hall, 6000 N. New Braunfels Ave., (210) 824-5368, mcnayart.org.

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