REVOLUTIONARY SHAKESPEARE CAPTURED ATTENTION OF
STAA MEMBERS IN MASSACHUSETTS WINTER WONDERLAND

Revolutionary Shakespeare was the theme of the 2009 Shakespeare Theatre Association of America (STAA) Conference, held on Jan. 29-Jan. 31, 2009. The conference was hosted by Shakespeare & Company on their 30-acre campus, in Lenox, Massachusetts with much of the activity presented in the recently opened state-of-the-art Production and Performing Arts Center and new Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre. A special performance of Romeo and Juliet was created for young audiences by Shakespeare & Company’s Education Department and was presented at the conference.

The formal STAA conference began on Jan. 29 and closed with the annual member banquet on Jan. 31. Each of the three conference days had its own point of departure: Revolutions Past; Revolutions Present; and Revolutions Forever. General Sessions covered topics such as Revolutionary Moments, Power to the People, and Revolutionary Spaces. Break out sessions included topics raised during general sessions, and included Staging Revolutions; Spreading Revolutions; Tearing Down the Walls; and Writing Revolutions.