Hamlet Book Club with Professor Ketu Katrak

Department: New Swan Shakespeare Center

Date and Time: January 24, 2018 | 5:30 PM-7:00 PM

Event Location: Orange County and Southeast Asian Archive, Library Gateway

Event Details


Read Hamlet out loud with an experienced theater scholar and a group of interested readers!

Wednesday, January 24, 5:30-7:00pm
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Wednesday, January 31, 5:30-7:00pm
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Wednesday, February 7, 5:30-7:00pm
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Free and open to students, faculty, staff and the general public. This Book Club is part of a county-wide set of clubs leading up to The Hamlet Trial on April 11.

Ketu Katrak is Professor of Drama at UCI. Born in Bombay, she was founding Chair of the Department of Asian American Studies (1996-2004) at UCI, and prior to that has taught at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Yale University. Katrak has published in the fields of Drama and Performance, African Drama and Ancient Sanskrit Drama (from India), Postcolonial Literature and Theory, Women Writers and Feminist Theory. She is the author of Wole Soyinka and Modern Tragedy: A Study of Dramatic Theory and Practice; and  Politics of the Female Body: Postcolonial Women Writers of the Third World; and Contemporary Indian Dance: New Creative Choreography in India and the Diaspora. She worked as dramaturg for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's (OSF) production of the Ancient Sanskrit drama, The Clay Cart (2007), and for OSF's Education office for their production of Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka's drama, Death and the King's Horseman (2008). Katrak served as dramaturg for UCI Drama Department's production of Ngugi wa Thiongo and Micere Githae Mugo's The Trial of Dedan Kimathi in March 2014.