Literature Mobile Reading Marathon
Wyn Kelley
Thu Jan 26, 09:30am-05:30pm, 14E-304, event is mobile, rooms change
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Please note: rooms locations will change throughout the day.
Great Danes: Shakespeare’s "Hamlet" and Stoppard’s "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead"
Come to Elsinore! Join us in a dramatic reading of two plays about a gloomy but intriguing Danish prince. Readers will gather in the morning, fortified with coffee and pastries, to read Shakespeare’s "Hamlet" in its entirety. After a break for lunch (on your own), we will reconvene to finish the play. We turn then from high tragedy to existential comedy in Stoppard’s imaginative (and shorter) reconstruction, "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead." Mysterious guest readers may appear at strategic moments. There may be sword fights. There may be shipwrecks. There may be skulls. We conclude with refreshments and possibly some film clips. Details of times and places to follow.
Contact: Wyn Kelley, 14N-413, 253-7655, wkelley@mit.edu
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On the Screen
Eugenie Brinkema
Mon-Thu, Jan 9-12, 17-19, 23-26, 30-2, 03-05:00pm, 3-133
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
THE FILMS OF ALFRED HITCHCOCK explores sixteen of the great director's films, ranging from 1927 to 1972. Films will include early Expressionist forays; pictures of espionage and intrigue; the “wrong-man” films; big-budget classics; and lesser-known late works.
Films will include:
The Lodger (1927)
Blackmail (1929)
The 39 Steps (1935)
Suspicion (1941)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Lifeboat (1944)
Spellbound (1945)
Notorious (1946)
Rope (1948)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Rear Window (1954)
Vertigo (1958)
North by Northwest (1959)
Psycho (1960)
The Birds (1963)
Frenzy (1972)
Contact: Hannah Carpenter, 14N-407, x8-5629, hcarpen@mit.edu
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Pleasures of Poetry
David Thorburn
Mon-Fri, Jan 9-13, 17-20, 23-27, 30-3, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Strengthens writing and reading comprehension skills. Public poetry readings and discussions. The poems chosen by the various moderators range across the history of literature, from ancient Chinese lyrics to contemporary texts.
Contact: Hannah Carpenter, 14N-407, x8-5629, hcarpen@mit.edu
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