Just as Shakepeare never intended his works for silent readings from the page, a liberal arts college never limits the education of their students to sitting in a lecture. Last weekend the Winter Will Power Undergraduate Shakespeare Colloquium offered students from St. Olaf and Carleton College a weekend long opportunity to interactively revisit Shakespeare.

The colloquium began on Friday, Feb. 16 with the St. Olaf Theatre Department's performance of Twelfth Night and a discussion afterward with director Dona Freeman and members of the company.

Saturday morning consisted of two sessions where St. Olaf and Carleton students read essays they composed on Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, The Tempest, and Henry V. The afternoon offered an active workshop led by Professor MarthaHarris of the St. Olaf Education Department.

Professor Harris' contagious excitement of teaching Shakespeare to Secondary School students engaged colloquium participants in various exercises to bring the magic of Shakespeare's works to life in the classroom.

At the Master Class session, Guest Artist Doug Scholz-Carlson worked with fourteen students' monologues and scene performances. Scholz-Carlson is an acting teacher at the Guthrie Theatre and is the producing director of The Minnesota Shakespeare Project.

The closing dinner served numerous treats as professors, students, and guest presenters discussed their experiences and common interests. Door prizes including tickets to Shakespeare productions at the Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Theater in the Round and Park Square Theater; a copy of the movie Shakespeare in Love; a life size model of Shakespeare himself and others were distributed to lucky participants. Professor Douglas Green of Augsburg College gave a titillating after dinner speech on "Shakespeare in Love: Sexuality, Cinema, and the Literature Classroom."

All the participants extended a huge thanks to Professor Karen Sawyer of the St. Olaf English Department for her initiation and hard work and to all the groups and individuals that helped make the colloquium a success.