Double, Double, Toil and Trouble--Design for Shakespeare's Works

Virgil Charles Johnson will make us aware of the complex relationships between interpreting Shakespeare's written texts and designing costumes for Shakespearean actors.

Located in Chicago, Mr. Johnson has been an active professional costume designer in regional theatre for the past 45 years.

He will discuss costume design, both past and present, for Shakespeare's plays. His main focus will be on designing the costumes for the 2010 production of Verdi's opera Macbeth,for the Lyric Opera of Chicago.

Mr. Johnson received his BFA at Boston University School of Fine Arts and his graduate degree from Northwestern University. He is a Professor Emeritus at Northwestern University.

Learn more about Virgil Charles Johnson at his website.

When and where to hear this lecture: Thursday, December 8, 2011, at 10:00 A.M. at the Lakeview Museum, 1125 W. Lake Ave., Peoria, Illinois.

Other programs in the Fine Arts Society's 2011-2012 Lecture series: Doubly Blessed: Women Artists in the Midwest, 1840-1890" with Dr. Susan Weininger, Printing On Stone Surfaces in Late Renaissance Italy: Indestructible Art or Asthetic Innovation" with Dr. Judith Mann, "Renaissance Art" with Dr. Sarah Glover, "Enchanted Isles of The Renaissance" with Jeffrey A. Nigro, "Niagara Falls, Icon of the Sublime" with Dr. Elizabeth McKinsey, "The Dead Sea Scrolls--Still Relevent?" with Dr. Martin Abegg Jr. and "French Nineteenth Century Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art Dr. Eric Denker.

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