PROGRAMMING

The Schedule

• Show Me Shakespeare: Family Day
  
  Sunday, June 12, 2016 - 2:00pm | Central Library

  The entire family can enjoy a celebratory afternoon of special, Shakespeare-centric activities. Learn the basics of stage combat. Make a trebuchet (a catapault) suitable for launching pom-poms or ping pong balls at a Shakespearean target. Or do some Mad Libbing. First Folio Family Fun also features poetry readings, soliloquies, short scene enactments, and Shakespeare on the screen in the Stanley H. Durwood Film Vault. As for the concept map writing services at https://qualitycustomessays.com/nursing-concept-map-writing-services/, they are also quite popular amoung students.

• Twelfth Night Speaker Series - Heart of America Shakespeare Festival
  
  Monday, June 13, 2016 - 1:30pm | Plaza Branch

  Mondays in June, the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival’s four-part series of inside-the-play presentations focuses on its summer production of the mistaken-identity comedy Twelfth Night. Among the participants: HASF’s executive artistic director, Sidonie Garrett, who offers a director’s briefing and leads a discussion, and members of the HASF design team.

• Women of Will: Following the Feminine in Shakespeare's Plays - Tina Packer
  
  Monday, June 13, 2016 - 6:30pm | Central Library

  Early on, the women in Shakespeare’s works tended to be simple caricatures – shrews to be tamed or sweet little things with no discernible independent thought. As the great writer matured, however, his female characters did, as well. Take the heroine of Romeo and Juliet, whose inner thoughts and feelings were achingly revealed, who was every bit as courageous as Romeo and received equal billing in the title of the play.

• Pop Sonnets - Erik Didriksen
  
  Thursday, June 16, 2016 - 6:30pm | Central Library

  Erik Didriksen, a New York musician and Tumblr poet featured in Vanity Fair, BuzzFeed, and the A.V. Club, has cleverly reimagined more than 100 classic pop songs as 14-line iambic pentameter Shakespearean sonnets. Cross David Bowie with William Shakespeare, as Erik Didriksen did after the influential rocker died earlier this year, and you get this throwback take on Bowie’s hit “Heroes”: We, with our time borne ceaselessly away Can heroes be, if just for one brief day.

• Warm Bodies (2013)
  
  Friday, June 17, 2016 - 8:00pm | Central Library

  Doors open: 8 p.m. • Program: 8:45 p.m. Romeo & Juliet’s timeless tale of star-cross’d lovers adds an undead element in Warm Bodies (PG-13, 98 min., 2013), a romance between R, a young zombie (Nicholas Hoult) and Julie (Teresa Palmer), a girl who helps him feel a bit more human.

• Twelfth Night Speaker Series - Heart of America Shakespeare Festival
  
  Monday, June 20, 2016 - 1:30pm | Plaza Branch

  Mondays in June, the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival’s four-part series of inside-the-play presentations focuses on its summer production of the mistaken-identity comedy Twelfth Night. Among the participants: HASF’s executive artistic director, Sidonie Garrett, who offers a director’s briefing and leads a discussion, and members of the HASF design team.

• Shakespeare and Hip Hop - Nicole Hodges Persley
  
  Tuesday, June 21, 2016 - 6:30pm | Central Library

  Was the Bard an old-school Jay Z? Shakespeare’s theatre isn’t as far removed from modern-day hip hop as you might think. Both represent energetic and inventive forms of expression, featuring poetry, wordplay, and lyricism. Both deal with what it is like to be human, with real issues in people’s lives.

• Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies - Peter Holland
  
  Thursday, June 23, 2016 - 6:30pm | Central Library

  The book we know as the First Folio wasn’t given that title by the two Shakespeare colleagues who posthumously published his plays in 1623. Its formal name, Mr. William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, is more functional, laying out genres for the 36 collected plays – like a TV channel offering varying types of movies.

• Shakespeare and the Art of the Word - Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre
  
  Sunday, June 26, 2016 - 2:00pm | Central Library

  The Library’s 10th season of Script-in-Hand performances concludes with an original Shakespeare-inspired production – a collage of readings of some of the Bard’s greatest texts, scene enactments, and images of text from the First Folio. Created by Karen Paisley, the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre’s producing artistic director, the production highlights popular and well-known passages while flushing out older, more obscure ones, introducing and reintroducing Shakespeare in a visceral and exciting way.

• Shakespeare and the Art of the Word - Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre
  
  Sunday, June 26, 2016 - 2:00pm | Central Library

  The Library continues its 10th season of Script-in-Hand performances and more than six months of special programming surrounding one of the cultural events of the year – an exhibit featuring a rare, nearly four-centuries-old First Folio collection of Shakespeare’s plays.

• Twelfth Night Speaker Series - Heart of America Shakespeare Festival
  
  Monday, June 27, 2016 - 1:30pm | Plaza Branch

  Mondays in June, the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival’s four-part series of inside-the-play presentations focuses on its summer production of the mistaken-identity comedy Twelfth Night. Among the participants: HASF’s executive artistic director, Sidonie Garrett, who offers a director’s briefing and leads a discussion, and members of the HASF design team.

• Shakespeare's Questionable Identity - Felicia Hardison Londré
  
  Wednesday, July 13, 2016 - 6:30pm | Central Library

  The question may be met with chagrin by traditionalists, but to some, the identity of William Shakespeare is not positively decided. They have trouble squaring the Bard’s works with the life of the presumed author from Stratford-upon-Avon, holding that only an aristocrat – which he was not – could have penned such elevated prose. Oxfordians point to Edward De Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, who was the most flamboyant of the courtier poets of the time and a theater and literary patron.

• She's the Man (2006)
  
  Friday, July 15, 2016 - 8:00pm | Central Library

  Doors open: 8 p.m. • Program: 8:45 p.m. The Bard goes to boarding school in She’s the Man (PG-13, 75 min., 2006), a teenage Twelfth Night tale. Viola (Amanda Bynes) disguises herself as her twin brother to make the soccer team; but things get complicated as she falls for a teammate (Channing Tatum).

• 10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
  
  Friday, August 19, 2016 - 8:00pm | Central Library

  Doors open: 8 p.m. • Program: 8:45 p.m. In 10 Things I Hate About You (PG-13, 97 min., 1999), a retake of Taming of the Shrew, high school student Cameron (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is smitten with lovely sophomore Bianca (Larisa Oleynik), but he finds she’s forbidden from dating until her rebellious and unpopular older sister Katarina (Julia Stiles) has a boyfriend first. So a plan emerges to set up Kat with school bad boy Patrick Verona (Heath Ledger) in order to clear the way for the younger couple’s romance.

• West Side Story (1961)
  
  Friday, September 16, 2016 - 8:00pm | Central Library

  Doors open: 8 p.m. • Program: 8:45 p.m. Shakespearean drama dances across the streets and rooftops of New York in West Side Story (NR, 152 min., 1961). This classic musical reimagining of Romeo & Juliet substitutes a gangland feud between the Jets and Sharks gangs for the royal rumble Montagues and Capulets.