Anglo-American University in Prague Spring 2025 AAU Shakespeare Film Festival
She despises him. He can’t stand her. Yeah, right.
Bored? Beat the late winter blues with the comedy that “casts the battle of the sexes in the form of an elegant dance” (The New York Times) – William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. True love, treachery, wit, and how to trick two people meant for each other into realizing it….
Come see Kenneth Branagh’s gorgeous film Much Ado About Nothing (1993) in elegant Room 2.07 on Wednesday, Feb. 26 at 6:30 p.m. It begins the revived Spring 2025 Shakespeare Film Festival!
Wednesday, Feb. 26, 6:30 p.m.
Much Ado About Nothing (dir. Kenneth Branagh, 1993)
“No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there was a star danced, and under that was I born.” (Beatrice, Much Ado About Nothing, II. 1. 327-29)
And coming in March….
Wednesday, March 12, 6:30 p.m.
Richard II (dir. Rupert Goold, 2012. Season 1, Episode 1 of BBC series The Hollow Crown).
“For God’s sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings” (Richard II, Richard II III. 2. 160-61)
Monday, March 31, 3:45 p.m.
Henry IV, Part 1 (dir. Richard Eyre, 2012. Season 1, episode 2 of The Hollow Crown)
Falstaff: “Banish plump Jack, and banish all the world.” Prince: “I do, I will.” (Henry IV, Part 1 II.4. 487-88)
Then in April and May….
Tuesday, April 22, 6:30 p.m.
Othello (dir. Olivia Parker, 1996)
Monday, May 19, 4:15 p.m.
The Tempest (dir. Julie Taymor, 2010)
ALL SHOWINGS IN ROOM 2.07.
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