Join us for an hour of merriment featuring the songs of Shakespeare set to music and performed by Jason Feddy; monologues by Ava Burton; and commentary on art, literature, and life by Malcolm Warner and Julia Lupton. Free and open to all. Featured works include Hamlet, Twelfth Night, and Macbeth.
Jason Feddy is a musician, British singer/guitarist. He has made a dozen albums of original songs, played on pretty much every major stage in the UK, including the Albert Hall, sung with Les Paul (he has the recording to prove it), produced shows covering songs by The Beatles, Joe Cocker and William Shakespeare. He is Cantor/Soloist at Temple Isaiah of Newport Beach and The Jewish Collaborative of Orange County.
Ava Burton classically trained in acting at East 15 Acting School, London. She toured the UK for 5 seasons with the Shakespearean Young Peoples Theatre Company. As well as many other theatre, TV, and film performances, she was a member of the renowned Oxford theatre company, Creation Theatre and performed around Europe. Here in The US, Ava has performed at Laguna Playhouse, UCIs New Swan Theater and North Coast Rep. She is a founding member of “Shakespeare’s Fool - Songs and Speeches from The Plays”.
Dr. Malcolm Warner is an independent art historian and authority on John Everett Millais. Some of his research on the artist’s early paintings appeared in the catalogue of the exhibition The Pre-Raphaelites (Tate Gallery, 1984), and he wrote his doctoral thesis on ‘The Professional Career of John Everett Millais to 1863’ (Courtauld Institute, 1985). He was curator of European art at the San Diego Museum of Art; senior curator of paintings and sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art; senior curator and deputy director at the Kimbell Art Museum; and executive director at Laguna Art Museum. Having left fulltime employment, he is currently devoting his time to the completion of to a catalogue raisonné of the works of Millais.
Julia Lupton is professor of English and co-director of the New Swan Shakespeare Center at the University of California, Irvine.