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Montana InSite Theatre production, with one performance in Bozeman and two performances at Tippet Rise, near Fishtail, Montana.
Minton delivers a lecture to the Cairns Institute/Blue Humanities Lab.
All day symposium at James Cook University in Townsville, Queensland, Australia.
Minton is giving this talk in the John Woolley Building (level 4 in the Woolley Common Room) on the University of Sydney’s main campus (Camperdown) in Sydney. This will be a hybrid presentation, with audience present but the talk will also be broadcast live.
“In this lecture dramaturg, director, and script adaptor Gretchen Minton discusses recent outdoor productions by Montana Shakespeare in the Parks and Montana InSite Theatre. An analysis of diverse site-specific outdoor locations reveals the unexpected ways that material and built environments comingle as part of theatrical performance.”
CASE Research Seminar at James Cook University.
Please join the Cairns Institute Thursday 2nd March, 2-3pm for the first CASE Research Seminar for 2023.
Dr. Gretchen Minton who is visiting James Cook University on a Fulbright fellowship from Montana State University, United States, will be the speaker.
To attend via Zoom, please use the QR code on the image for this event.
The ANU Centre for Early Modern Studies is pleased to welcome Professor of English Gretchen Minton of Montana State University for our inaugural seminar of 2023.
“Shakespeare and the Settlement of the North American West” focuses upon the role that Shakespeare as a cultural icon played in the nineteenth-century settlement of the North American frontier, providing a thorough picture of how the earliest white men who migrated across the continent used, understood and interacted with Shakespeare’s works. Re-examining narratives about white settler encounters with Shakespeare reveals several recurring themes, including the importance of books, hybrid identities, a return to Europe and the fashioning of Western personae. In the narratives about such encounters the voices of the Indigenous people are consistently silenced, but important perspectives arise when we analyse the nature of such marginalization. The paper thus ultimately demonstrates that attitudes toward Shakespeare are symptomatic of attitudes toward settlement in the Rocky Mountain region, and thus invariably symptomatic of how Australia’s Indigenous peoples were treated.
Using site-specific outdoor theatre, this production provides guided small group walks through a nature-preserve park where actors are placed at strategic locations to give famous (and some not so famous) Shakespearean monologues. Each group embarks on a 45 minute Shakespearean adventure through walking, nature, and language. It’s the perfect opportunity to immerse yourself in the beauty of nature and poetry while considering what both can teach us about dealing with difficult times.
“Shakespeare’s Walking Story” is directed by Gretchen Minton and features Aila Peck, Michael Goldstein, Ben Leubner, Keegan Grady, Gabe Taurman, Cara Wilder, and Jeff McCarthy. Small groups will be guided by Sharon Beehler, Kristin, Hammargren, and Gretchen Minton.
Bozeman author and theatre scholar Gretchen Minton will visit Livingston’s Elk River Books to discuss her new book, Shakespeare in Montana: Big Sky Country’s Love Affair with the World’s Most Famous Writer, on Thursday, June 25 at 7 p.m. This event will be a live in-person talk open to the public; the talk and following Q/A will be live-streamed on Elk River Books’ Facebook page for those unable to attend in person.
Tracing more than two centuries of history, Shakespeare in Montana uncovers a multitude of diverse voices that capture the Montana’s interest in Shakespeare. From mountain men, pioneers and itinerant acting companies in mining camps, to women’s clubs at the turn of the 20th century, continuing into today’s popularity of Shakespeare in the Parks performances throughout Montana, Shakespeare in Montana chronicles the stories of residents across the Treasure State who have been drawn to the words and works of Shakespeare.
Join Montana State University professor Dr. Gretchen Minton as she shares her new book Shakespeare in Montana. Looking over 200 years of Montanans interacting with Shakespeare in live theater, readings, and daily life, Shakespeare in Montana is a fascinating look at a portion of this state’s history that few people today know. The Friends of Shakespeare in the Parks co-host this event with The Country Bookshelf for this author event. Shakespeare in the Parks’ Kevin Asselin along with Sharon Beehler from the Friends of Shakespeare Education group talk with Gretchen about this book.
On April 22, 2020, people across the globe will be observing Earth Day, dedicated to the theme “Climate Action.” The COVID-19 crisis reminds us of how important it is to fight for our planet and the people upon it. Making a new, better future requires creative ways to think about addressing our crises. In the spirit of engagement through the arts, a cast of eight professional actors will be doing an online reading of Timon of Anaconda, an adaptation of a Shakespeare play that offers a rich storehouse of language, metaphors, and situations that can be used to speak to contemporary environmental challenges. This adaptation, set in the mining town of Butte, Montana, emphasizes the shared guilt of our impact upon the earth, but also gestures toward possible futures that are dependent upon forgiving faults, even egregious ones that created environmental catastrophe. Theatre is the perfect way to wrestle with difficult problems and to open up paths for further conversation.
To see the reading of Timon of Anaconda, please go to: www.bozemanarts-live.com/line-up/timon-on-anaconda
This presentation traces Shakespeare’s sojourns in a place that he never even imagined: Montana. From the first moment that mountain men carried books to the Rocky Mountain West, Shakespeare was part of the story. Shakespeare’s works made themselves at home with pioneers and miners, with suffragette women and educators, with performers in opera houses and parks. The story of Montana’s love affair with the famous English writer reflects upon our diverse histories, showing how Shakespeare has given Montanans the language and the art to reflect upon their own sense of place.
Hager Auditorium, Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman
Theatre for Change: Timon of Anaconda performance at Foreman’s Park at Mountain Con Mine Yard, Butte (on top of the hill, overlooking Butte). Please bring your own chairs or blankets for seating. In case of inclement weather, the performance will be held under the pavilion at the same location.
Theatre for Change: Timon of Anaconda performance at “The Silos” at Story Mill, Bozeman. Please bring your own chairs or blankets for seating. In case of inclement weather the performance will be moved inside the Mill warehouse.
I have been chosen as a Provost’s Distinguished Scholar this year, and have been scheduled to give a lecture on my research at 7:00 PM on March 5, 2019 at the Hager Auditorium at the Museum of the Rockies. This event is free and open to the public.
Green College, part of the University of British Columbia, hosts a yearly series of lectures by noted scholars. Here is the website for my talk: https://greencollege.ubc.ca/civicrm/event/info?id=893&snippet=2
Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC in October 18-20, 2018. http://www.pnrs.org/
My talk is scheduled for Friday morning.
