The Institute for Multidisciplinary Research in Art (ICMA), in collaboration with the Faculty of Theatre at the “George Enescu” National University of Arts in Iași, announces a one-day series of workshops on Shakespearean adaptations, led by Nicoleta Cinpoeș, Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Worcester, UK.

Thursday
October 23, 2025
Hours 12:00 – 4:00 p.m.

Simposion Hall, Artes Building
Faculty of Theatre, UNAGE Iași

Worskhops:

“I stand for judgement”
(Act 4. Scene 1): The Merchant of Venice

“A tale … full of sound and fury”
(Act 5. Scene 5): Macbeth

Additionally, Nicoleta Cinpoeș will be in dialogue with Lucian Ghiță, Principal Lecturer at Clemson University (USA), in a session titled:

“Fair is Foul:”
Plague, Power, and Performance in Macbeth

This dialogue will explore Shakespeare’s Macbeth as a play of paradox and disorder, where plague, corruption, and the struggle for power collide. Stage and film adaptations reveal how these themes continue to resonate, highlighting the play’s enduring relevance in moments of crisis.

Nicoleta Cinpoeș is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Worcester, UK, where she teaches early modern literature; Shakespeare in print, on stage, and on screen; and Shakespeare in the classroom and in digital spaces. At Worcester, she serves on the University’s Academic Board and, in the School of Humanities, is the International Experience Lead and Director of the Doctoral Programme. In addition to her research in Shakespeare studies and early modern drama, she is a theatre historian, reviewer, and occasional translator. Her work has been published in books, chapters in edited volumes, and articles in international journals, including Shakespeare Bulletin, SEDERI Yearbook, Cahiers Élisabéthains, Theatralia, and New Theatre Quarterly. She publishes in English as well as in Romanian, Polish, and Ukrainian. Her latest book, Shakespeare on European Festival Stages (Bloomsbury, 2022), co-edited with Florence March and Paul Prescott, examines the socio-cultural role of Shakespeare at festivals across Europe. She is writing Romeo and Juliet: The Eastside Story, a book that traces the play’s rich history and roles within the Eastern European context, through case studies drawn from Poland, Hungary, Romania, and Ukraine.

She has been working with Shakespeare festivals in Romania, Poland, and the UK for almost two decades, and has been organizing the ESRA Shakespeare in Performance seminar at the International Shakespeare Festival in Craiova since 2010. She advised on the launch of two new Shakespeare festivals – in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine (June 2024), and Chișinău, Moldova (October 2024). She serves on the board of ESRA (the European Shakespeare Research Association) and was re-elected in 2021 for her second and final term.

The workshops are coordinated by Assoc. Prof. Ioana Petcu-Pădurean as part of the project International Promotion of UNAGE Iași in the Digital Environment and Consolidation of European Values in Art Education through Collaborations with Partner Institutions. The project is funded by the National Commission for the Financing of Higher Education (CNFIS) of Romania through the Institutional Development Fund, grant no. CNFIS-FDI-2025-0300. Project Director: Prof. Cristian Nae.