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.

New! Court is pleased to introduce post-play
discussions with Danielle Allen.

Danielle Allen is a scholar whose intellectual scope spans the fields of the classics, philosophy, political theory and the arts. A published poet, Allen is the director of the Poem Present Series, which brings prominent contemporary poets to the University of Chicago for readings and informal discussions. Allen received a B.A. (1993) from Princeton University, an M.A. (1998) and Ph.D. (2001) from Harvard University, and a M.Phil. (1994) and Ph.D. (1996) from the University of Cambridge. She has been affiliated with the University of Chicago since 1997. She is the author of The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens (2000) and the forthcoming Talking to Strangers: on rhetoric, distrust, and other democratic difficulties. She is also working on manuscripts on Aristotle’s Rhetoric and Ralph Ellison. Allen is a 2001 recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.

David Bevington returns to Court Theatre 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).