The summer of 2014 at Stanford University features an ambitious program celebrating Orson Welles’ creations for film, radio and theater.
Orson Welles: Substantial Shadows, presented by the Stanford Repertory Theater, will offer stage productions of Moby Dick – Rehearsed, Welles’ 1955 adaptation of the Herman Melville’s classic novel, and The War of the Worlds, the Mercury Theatre On the Air’s notorious 1938 radio drama, based on the H.G. Welles sci-fi thriller. Eight films will be screened and other events are planned.
Moby Dick – Rehearsed will be presented at Pigott Theater July 17 through August 10; and The War of the Worlds on Auguts 14-24 at Nitery Theater. Tickets, priced at $15 and $25, may be purchased online. Further information may be obtained by calling 650-725-5838.
The California university will screen eight Welles’ movies (mainly at CEMEX Auditorium) beginning with Citizen Kane on June 30. Seven are directed by Welles with the Carol Reed-directed The Third Man capping the series on Aug. 18. Admission is free to the film series.
“Stanford Repertory Theater proudly presents our 16th summer festival, Orson Welles: Substantial Shadows, celebrating the incomparable theater, radio, and film work of an American original. Combining the energies and skills of entrepreneur, actor, designer, director, playwright, producer, and screenwriter, Welles transformed the theater, radio, and film of the last century in ways that continue to amaze us,” according to organizers.
The movies and speakers include:
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June 30 – Citizen Kane – (Peter N. Carroll, Lecturer, History)
July 7 – Othello – (Alice Rayner, Professor Emerita, Theater and Performance Studies)
July 14 – The Magnificent Ambersons (Annenberg Auditorium, this screening only) – (Michael Metzger, Art and Art History/Film and Media Studies)
July 21 – The Lady from Shanghai -(Michael Metzger, Art and Art History/Film and Media Studies)
July 28 – Touch of Evil – (Branislav Jakovljevic, Associate Professor, Theater and Performance Studies)
August 4 – Chimes at Midnight – (David Riggs, Professor Emeritus, English)
August 11 – The Trial – (Adrian Daub, Associate Professor, German Studies)
August 18 – The Third Man – (Tobias Wolff, Professor, English)
Also planned are a symposium, Transformative Stages: Sea Change in Welles and Melville, on August 2, and a continuing studies course, Welles and his Sources, June 25 – August 20
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