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Shakespeare Festival @ Lewes Library
Shakespeare Festival @ Lewes Library
April 21, 2023 @ 7:00 pm
All events are free, held at the Lewes Public Library, and registration is required. Download the full schedule
The library’s annual Shakespeare Festival returns in April for a month-long celebration of the Bard and Shakespearean artistry, with a fresh new theme: “Remixing the Bard: Modern Takes on Classic Works.”
The festival will offer a unique series of free events including readings, films, lectures, poetry, and even a world premiere performance. All are designed to encourage participants to take a new look at the Bard in exciting and surprising ways, from discussions of innovative staging, expanding on lesser-known characters, integrating the Black experience, speculating on the Shakespeare’s true identity—and more. Check it out!
Monday, April 17 | 5:00 PM | Film Screening of Nashville Ballet’s Black Lucy and the Bard
Tuesday, April 18 | 5:00 PM| Readings from Lucy Negro, Redux and Corresponding Shakespearean Sonnets | Delaware Shakespeare
Thursday, April 20th | 5:00 PM | I Did Love You Once: Analyzing Pre-Raphaelite Depictions of Ophelia | Lecture by Kristen Matulewicz, Biggs Museum of American Art
Friday, April 21 | 7:00 PM | Performance of An Evening of New Works | Lewes Public Library’s Teen Writer’s Room and the Troupe
Thursday, April 27 | 5:00pm | Shakespeare Was a Woman and other Heresies | Conversation with author Elizabeth Winkler