*UNSHAKEN* Festival at The Mill NIC September 23!

 

Love "is an ever-fixed mark /                    That looks on tempests                   and is never shaken                                 Sonnet 116

September 23rd     7:00pm     The Mill -- Nebraska Innovation Campus     2021 Transformation Drive . Lincoln, NE         *UNSHAKEN* runs approximately two hours with a 15 minute intermission.      FREE WILL DONATION . NO TICKET REQUIRED.

The Seven Acts of a Shakespeare-Lover's Life Written and performed by Lisa Hajda Directed by Stephen Buhler Based on Jacques' seven ages of man speech from As You Like It, this tribute allows us to follow a Shakespeare lover through the seven--well, not quite--acts of her life as she light-heartedly recounts the ages. The Idea of Actium Written and Performed by Hannah Clark Directed by Sarah Lynn Brown A queer woman teaches an example lecture on Antony & Cleopatra as she applies to work for a Catholic college, one where her old flame also works. Woven between the lecture and her memories, Actium explores how love changes us all and the world we live in. Troilus and Cressida: The Musical Written and Performed by Paul Shaw Directed by Ashley Kobza Drew is an up and coming musical theatre writer attempting to adapt a musical version of Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida for a local Shakespeare company. The only problem is the play is a problem. As they lead the artistic staff through their vision of the show, ideas come together, dissonance becomes harmony, and an act of creation will force Drew to reckon with their fear of the unknown and the vulnerability of the creative process. Broadguess Written by Dee Ryan Performed by Fred Vogel Directed by Summer Lukasiewicz Something's rotten in Denmark and Verona and Scotland and Messina and the Forest of Arden and that storm-drenched heath, but our hardscrabble detective, Sergeant Broadguess, is on the case! The evidence and the plot thicken quicker than you can say "when Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinane!" Feminine Endings Written and Directed by Sarah Lynn Brown Performed by Vivian Parr Serving as a prologue for a larger work, this piece provides an introduction to Shakespeare's Feminine Endings and Femme Characters, bringing a playful and slightly irreverent take on literary scholarship. This work reminds us: not to take ourselves too seriously, not to hide ourselves (and our stories) in the dark, and not to let anyone assign what characters we are allowed to embody. All of Shakespeare. Is. For. All of us.