“So many of us are impacted by this particular playwright, and yet so few of us even understand his work or his stories,” Fine Arts Coordinator Joshua Estrada said in a statement.
Audiences can look forward to sketches, songs, dance routines and extracts from renditions of many of Shakespeare’s plays, not just those well known to the general public. Performances will start at 10 a.m. from June 27-30, which will also have a 7:30 p.m. showing.
“A Season of Shakespeare” will continue in October with a performance of “The Curate Shakespeare, As You Like It,” in which a small group of performers will attempt to perform 30-plus roles. Carrying on in November, the department will perform the playwright’s most well-known play, “Hamlet.”
The season will conclude in the spring with two more shows. The first of which will be in March, which will cover the dark comedy “Bright Ideas.” The second will be in April, covering a range of topics from mistaken identity to loss and unrequited love. April’s play, “Illyria,” serves as a musical retelling of Shakespeare’s renowned comedy “Twelfth Night.”
For tickets and more information on the performances, go to www.lonestar.edu/boxoffice.
