Simon Russell Beale on Shakespeare at the Institute of Psychoanalysis
Olivier and BAFTA award-winning actor Simon Russell Beale will talk about the performance of Shakespearean roles at the Institute of Psychoanalysis’ Ernest Jones lecture, to be held on June 21st, 2009.
Russell Beale is an Associate Actor at the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National and Almeida theatres who has received critical acclaim for the many Shakespeare roles he has played. He will give his insights into Shakespearean characters and their portrayal on stage in a lecture entitled Without Memory or Desire in Shakespeare Performance.
Michael Brearley, President of the Institute of Psychoanalysis says:
We look forward hugely to Simon Russell Beale’s Ernest Jones lecture on performing Shakespeare. Simon is soon to open in The Winter’s Tale at The Old Vic; he is one of the UK’s very best Shakespearean actors, remembered for his internal and extremely intelligent Hamlet, for example. He has spoken at an Institute event before, on Psychopathological Characters in Shakespeare, with special reference to Iago and Macbeth. His talk showed how similar some of the attempts to come to emotional understanding of a text can be to the psychoanalyst’s work with a patient.
This summer Russell Beale will be performing in The Bridge Project’s acclaimed productions of The Winter’s Tale and The Cherry Orchard, directed by Sam Mendes, which will launch its UK leg at London’s Old Vic. The Bridge Project is an unprecedented three-year transatlantic partnership uniting The Old Vic with Brooklyn Academy of Music and Neal Street Productions.
The Ernest Jones lecture is an annual event commemorating the Institute’s founder Ernest Jones, a psychoanalyst who was one of the key proponents of psychoanalysis in the UK in the early twentieth century and the Institute’s President until 1944.
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