How can the voice be used to create unity or tension—or even both? How is the voice employed for manipulation and mobilization, for the construction and deconstruction of belonging and difference?
We will explore these and other questions in this staged lecture—a unique blend of lecture and performance—using examples from Shakespeare’s works, including Othello, The Merchant of Venice, and The Tempest. In these works, mechanisms of division and constructions of the “Other” and the “Foreign” are brought to the stage and critically negotiated, underscoring the high relevance of these works especially in today’s world, but also raising questions about their reproducibility.
The lecturer is Prof. Sibylle Baumbach (Institute of Literary Studies, University of Stuttgart), with musical accompaniment by Niels Pfeffer on the lute and staged presentations by Orlando Schenk (voice artist, Academy for the Spoken Word) and Marcel Zuber (Steinfußtheater at the University of Stuttgart).
