Thursday, November 7, 2019

Dr. Will Tosh

Lecturer and Research Fellow at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, London

Dr. Will Tosh, Shakespeare’s Globe Research Fellow, explores the impact of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse’s striking architecture and environment on the work produced for its stage. What new questions emerge about the Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatic canon when plays are staged in the pressing intimacy of the Playhouse?

Dr. Will Tosh is a Lecturer and Research Fellow at Shakespeare’s Globe, London. He led the Indoor Performance Practice Project (2014-16), which examined playing in the candle-lit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. Educated at Oxford University and Queen Mary University of London, he is the author of Male Friendship and Testimonies of Love in Shakespeare’s England (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and Playing Indoors: Staging Early Modern Drama in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse (Bloomsbury, 2018). His current project focuses on the late Elizabethan poet Richard Barnfield, a queer sonneteer and pastoralist who influenced Shakespeare’s poems and plays. Will’s work at the Globe includes teaching, research, dramaturgy, new writing development and public engagement in person, in the media and online.

Dr. Tosh will explore the impact of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse’s striking architecture and environment on the work produced for its stage. What new questions emerge about the Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatic canon when plays are staged in the pressing intimacy of the playhouse?

Learn more about the Sam Wannamaker Playhouse here.

The Orion Lecture Series in Fine Arts is presented through the generous support of the Orion Fund in Fine Arts, the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Victoria.