PROGRAMME DETAILS FOR THE 190TH SEASON 2013/2014

10 SEPTEMBER 2013
DR PAUL PRESCOTT

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND COMPARATIVE STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK

THE LIFE, ADVENTURES AND OPINIONS OF SAM WANAMAKER

Sam Wanamaker is best known as the visionary founder of Shakespeare's Globe, the theatre for which he campaigned tirelessly in the last third of his life. This illustrated talk draws on previously unseen archive material to present key episodes in what was an extraordinary life: his Depression-era childhood on the tough streets of south Chicago, his rise to fame as an actor and director, his persecution by McCarthyism, his emigration to England and attempt to create a new kind of arts centre in Liverpool, his position as one of the most exciting Method actors on the London and Stratford stages of the 1950s.

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