Keynote: Shakespeare in a Changing World, Stratford Festival, Canada, June, 2022

The times, they are a’changing. Even before these global crises, anti-feminist, white nationalist, transmisogynist, and anti-immigrant movements have used the ideas of otherness to evoke a range of disruptive identities and to attack legal and social human rights. Fortunately, ideas of otherness are also a major driving force for global arts that inspire, cure, and rebuild. In her keynote lecture, Alexa Alice Joubin examined adaptations that have ushered in newly prominent themes of social justice and inclusiveness.
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00:53 Field-disrupting events
01:41 Social justice turn in the arts
02:50 Social reparation
04:43 Power over, power with, and power to
05:33 Part One: Race
06:05 The Winter's Tale, Desdemona Chiang
08:59 Romeo + Juliet, Baz Luhrmann
11:56 Colorblind gaze
12:27 As You Like It, Kenneth Branagh
14:01 Using Asian-ness ornamentallly
16:16 Global Shakespeare
16:34 Wole Soyinka, Aimé Césaire, Robert Lepage
16:58 Macbeth by Tara Arts
17:52 Color-conscious casting
18:44 Actors' perspectives
19:17 Part Two: Gender
19:43 Gender variance
19:53 Shakespeare central to transgender theatre
20:21 Transgender Shakespeare Company, London
20:46 Theory of trans lens
21:39 Enactment of gender
23:34 Galatea, Emma Frankland
24:39 As You Like It, Desdemona Chiang
25:40 Hamlet, Michelle Terry
27:37 Reception history of gender in performance
29:06 As We Like It, Hung-i Chen and Muni Wei
30:41 Conclusion
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The 4th Shakespearean Theatre Conference, “Shakespeare in a Changing World,” took place in Stratford, Canada, from June 15-18, 2022