Lori DiPrete Brown Sarli Mercado Lori DiPrete Brown is founding director of UW-Madison’s 4W Women and Well-Being Initiative, which develops and supports a
Living Poetry – Women in Translation
Notes on Cinema – Steffen Silvis
Steffen Silvis is a valued member of the Fermat universe, having appeared in numerous performances (narrator in Mother Courage Alone) and readings (Acting Un-American). He is a PhD candidate in Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies at UW-Madison, has lectured in the UW
Shakespeare’s women – alone together
Shakespeare’s scenes with two women alone. What do Shakespeare’s women say when they are out of the hearing of men? Mya Kahler and Maggie Schenk, two of our favorite Shakespearean actresses, in scenes from Twelfth Night, As You Like it,
An Evening with James Baldwin – 2019
Photo: Allen Warren – Wikimedia Commons Fermat’s Last Theater presents An Evening with James Baldwin Concept and curation by Quanda Johnson November 14, 2019, Urban League of Greater Madison Program Letter to My Nephew and a passage from Giovanni’s
Franz Kafka’s story “A Hunger Artist”
Franz Kafka’s dark and disturbing short story, A Hunger Artist Alex Hancock and Nick Barovic-Hancock read the Muir translation of one of the strangest of Kafka’s works. “A Hunger Artist” (“Ein Hungerkunstler”) is one of the last short
James Baldwin’s essay – Why I Stopped Hating Shakespeare
Photo: Allen Warren – Wikimedia Commons Melvin Hinton reads James Baldwin’s essay, Why I Stopped Hating Shakespeare Audio from this reading is being reworked … thanks for your patience. Madison’s Melvin Hinton reads this wonderful essay and
Anna Akhmatova and the Engineers of the Human Soul – 2019
Anna Akhmatova and the Engineers of the Human Soul Cast and Crew Anna Akhmatova – Brette Olpin Nadezhda Mandelstam – Mya Kahler Ensemble roles – Ari Pollack Music – Charlie Lynch Script by David Simmons Direction by David Simmons
The Radical and Contentious Life of Simone Weil – 2019
Photo – Wikimedia Commons An evening of reading, music, dance and conversation about the French writer, philosopher and activist Simone Weil. April 14, 2019, Arts + Lit Lab. Thanks to all in the standing room only crowd. Perhaps we
Eugene V Debs – A Graphic Biography
Eugene V. Debs – A Graphic Biography by Paul Buhle and Steve Max, illustrated by Norm Van Sciver Historian Paul Buhle relates the history of America’s most important and popular socialist and adds some personal thoughts about socialism and
A Gold Slipper – A short story by Willa Cather
A Gold Slipper – a short story by Willa Sibert Cather – first published in Harper’s Monthly Magazine #134, January 1917. We continue our examination of the life and works of Willa Cather with this wonderful short story. Samra