Ken Adelman, a former United Nations ambassador and arms control director for the Reagan administration and an adviser to the U.S. Department of Defense, will participate in a series of panel discussions on political intrigue and family dysfunction in Shakespeare's "King Lear."
The University of Colorado at Boulder and the Denver Center for the Performing Arts will co-host the panels on Jan. 28 and 29.
"King Lear: Fathers, Children, Leaders, Victims" is part of two free public symposia at CU-Boulder and the DCPA. Panel discussions will be held Jan. 28 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. in the DCPA's Donald R. Seawell Grand Ballroom and Jan. 29 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Center for British and Irish Studies at CU-Boulder's Norlin Library.
Audiences will have the opportunity to meet the panelists at receptions following the discussions.
The DCPA production of "King Lear" runs through Feb. 24 at the Stage Theatre. "King Lear" is Shakespeare's harrowing look at the inevitability of death amid the conflicting values of love and duty, friendship and betrayal, leadership and loyalty, and good and evil.
Michael Zimmerman, director of CU-Boulder's Center for Humanities and the Arts, will moderate the Jan. 28 symposium. Katherine Eggert, chair of the campus's English department, will moderate on Jan. 29.
Other panelists will include Harry Berger Jr., professor emeritus of literature and art history at the University of California-Santa Cruz; Philip Sneed, new producing artistic director of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival; and Kent Thompson, artistic director of the Denver Center Theatre Company and director of "King Lear."
In addition to the symposia, the theater company's higher education advisory council will hold a post-show discussion on Jan. 27.
To purchase "King Lear" tickets, call (303) 893-4100 or visit .
The "King Lear" symposia are the seventh in a series of annual events jointly sponsored by CU-Boulder and the DCPA. In Boulder, the event is supported and coordinated by the Center for Humanities and the Arts. For more information visit the center's Web site at .