We're doing another, bigger North County Shakespeare Festival here in the Berkshires. We've put together seven different Shakespeare events over the last week of April.
4/23 (Thu) 8p Shakespeare's birthday trivia at Door Prize
Come celebrate Shakespeare's birthday with free cake and bar trivia. Door Prize is located in Hotel Downstreet. Cash prizes!
04/25 (Sat) 7p King Lear at Mosaic event space (49 Main St)
Shakespeare's tragedy of family relationships and elder abuse. Lear was our second show ever and we're excited to take another swing at it.
04/26 (Sun) 1:45p Hamnet at Images
Images Cinema is finally reopening and they've scheduled their screening of Hamnet to coincide with North County Shakespeare Festival. (There will be additional screenings at 4:45. and 7:45p that day).
04/27 (Mon) 5p Sonnets zine release at the MssMoCA R&D Store
We've commissioned five local poets to compose new works that are inspired by or in conversation with four Shakespeare sonnets. We'll be publishing the new works in a zine and doing a reading of the new works at the Research and Development Store at MassMoCA.
04/28 (Tue) 7p Sweet Prince at the '62 Center at Williams College
Northampton-based Shakespeare actor and producer (and Elsewhere co-founder) Hilary Dennis brings her one-actor Hamlet to the '62 Center for Theatre and Dance at Williams College.
04/29 (Wed) 8p The Winter's Tale in the Lodge at Tourists
We're returning to Tourists as part of their Sing For Your Slumber performance series with Shakespeare's bizarre fairy tale of jealousy, lost children, magical statues, and bears.
04/30 (Thu) 7p Shakespeare's Duets: Turn and Change at Studio 9
Artistic Associate Andrew Codispoti and his collaborator Ariana Karp have created a two-actor show that explores relationships in Shakespeare through a series of two-character scenes from the plays.