Preview Post-Play Discussions

All of Court Theatre’s preview performances include a post-play discussion with the audience. A member of the Court Theatre Artistic Staff leads a dialogue where audience members can ask questions and share responses to the production.

February 5, 2004: David Bevington GUYS AND DOLLS Discussion

David Bevington returns to Court with his popular post-play discussion series.

David Bevington is the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1967. A Court Theatre Trustee, his studies include From “Mankind” to Marlowe, 1962, Tudor Drama and Politics, 1968, and Action Is Eloquence: Shakespeare’s Language of Gesture, 1985. He is also the editor of Medieval Drama, Houghton Mifflin, 1975; The Bantam Shakespeare, in 29 paperback volumes, 1988; and The Complete Works of Shakespeare, 5th edition, Longman, 2003, the Oxford 1 Henry IV (1987) and the Arden 3 Troilus and Cressida (1998). He is the senior editor of the Revels Student Editions, the Revels Plays, the forthcoming Cambridge edition of the works of Ben Jonson, and the recently published Norton Anthology of Renaissance Drama (2002). His latest book, intended for general readers, is called simply Shakespeare (2002).