Karen O?Brien, assistant professor of Dramatic Art at UNC-Chapel Hill will speak on CONOR MCPHERSON?S PLACE IN IRISH DRAMATIC LITERATURE on Saturday, November 10th at 6 pm.? Tickets are $5 or free with anyone holding a ticket to any performance of Burning Coal Theatre Company?s Shining City.? The lecture will last about 50 minutes and will be held at Burning Coal?s Murphey School auditorium, 224 Polk Street, Raleigh, NC.? Tickets are available for the lecture at the door.? More information may be obtained by calling 919-834-4001 or visiting us online at www.burningcoal.org. Ian Finley, current Piedmont Laureate, will speak on SHAKESPEARE?S CLOWNS on Saturday, December 8th at 6 pm.? Tickets are $5 or free with anyone holding a ticket to any performance of Burning Coal Theatre Company?s As You Like It.? The lecture will last about 50 minutes and will be held at Burning Coal?s Murphey School auditorium, 224 Polk Street, Raleigh, NC.? Tickets are available for the lecture at the door.? More information may be obtained by calling 919-834-4001 or visiting us online at www.burningcoal.org. ABOUT KAREN O?BRIEN.? Karen O?Brien is assistant professor in Dramatic Art at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She frequently presents research on Irish drama at national conferences, and her publications include interdisciplinary articles and reviews on Irish literature, theatre, and culture in a wide range of professional journals and collections. Karen is currently working on her book manuscript, which explores the plays of Irish writers Marina Carr and Conor McPherson. She holds a MFA in Directing from University of Cincinnati?s College-Conservatory of Music and a Ph.D. in Drama from University of California at Irvine.
ABOUT IAN FINLEY.? Ian Finley is a playwright and director, and the 2012 Piedmont Laureate. ?He is the author of several productions, most notably THE NATURE OF THE NAUTILUS (winner of the 2002 Kennedy Center?s Jean Kennedy Smith Award), 1960, and most recently a two-part adaptation of Thomas Hardy?s JUDE THE OBSCURE which premiered this past April at Burning Coal. ?He has taught at Southern Methodist University, lectured on Shakespeare at NC State, Duke University and dozens of area schools.? In January, he will directed C.P. Taylor?s Good for Burning Coal.
ABOUT BURNING COAL?S LOBBY LECTURE SERIES.? On the second Saturday of each mainstage production, Burning Coal presents a speaker or other presenter on a topic related to the production currently running at Burning Coal.? Sometimes the topic is the play itself, sometimes it relates to the author, sometimes it deals with an issue about which the play is concerned.? Past Lobby Lectures have includes Gerald Freedman, original director of Hair (at our 2009 production of Hair), a gospel choir (at our 2010 production of Crowns) and the author of several books on Poker (at our 2010 production of The Seafarer).
For further information about the Lobby Lecture series or about Burning Coal Theatre Company, please contact managing director Simmie Kastner at 919.834.4001 or visit us online at www.burningcoal.org.VN:F [1.9.18_1163]
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