For this first episode of our second season, our host is joined by her collaborators Shannon Murray, professor at the University of Prince Edward Island, and Jessica Riddell, professor at Bishop's University. They talk about the literary backup and mentors who've helped them to navigate the wicked problems of the past year of emergency pandemic teaching, and discuss how this global experience is complicated by its very particular nature.

We continue our discussion with Rodrigo Beilfuss, actor, educator and Artistic Director of the Shakespeare in the Ruins theatre company in Winnipeg, to look more closely at the layers of meaning enfolded in Hamlet and see how this play shows us how we can be human together.

Our guest is Rodrigo Beilfuss, actor, educator and artistic director of the Shakespeare in the Ruins theatre company in Winnipeg, to talk about the acts of performing and experiencing Shakespeare, and to observe how theatre is a shared space where we all come to be in the moment together.

We reach out to Alexandra Bennett, professor of Renaissance English Literature and Drama, as well as Modern British and American Drama, at Northern Illinois University, to ask ourselves what theatre means during pandemics, from Shakespeare’s time to our own movies-on-demand era.

We speak with Melanie Bellwood, a second-year candidate in the Bachelor of Education program at the University of Northern British Columbia, and reflect on how we learn, why we learn and what we value in our learning.

Our host Lisa Dickson is joined by her collaborators Shannon Murray, professor at the University of Prince Edward Island, and Jessica Riddell, professor at Bishop's University. They reflect on why we are still studying Hamlet now and observe what Hamlet, both the play and the character, can tell us about living in adversity.