Freud Museum Garden Shakespeare Theatre Workshop
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Bournemouth University, Freud Museum, Faction theatre Ensemble
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Inspired by Freud’s fascination for Shakespeare and following the success of our 2023 event on the topic of shame in Macbeth, this workshop will address the theme of displacement, both in terms of geography and language. Pericles is set in multiple locations around the Mediterranean. The play not only invites exciting psychoanalytical interpretations – the dynamics of shame, gender, jealousy and violence being central to the play – but it is also strikingly resonant in the current context of conflict in the Middle East and the plight of refugees and migrants crossing the Aegean Sea and the English Channel.
Scenes from the play will be performed both in the language(s) of the places in which they are set, and in the ‘original’ Shakespearean English. By sharing the uncanny experience of this two-fold ‘distancing’, we will explore the nature of identity and the limit(ation)s of language in the context of Shakespeare’s play, Freud’s own experience as a refugee, and the current refugee crisis. The audience will have the chance to watch an interdisciplinary team of artists and academics as they lead a live rehearsal workshop and will be able to interact and ask questions during the event. The workshop will engage with the “babble of tongues” and the question of how people from radically different backgrounds overcome barriers of communication. Pericles offers us a manual of reconciliation in a highly fractured world.
