Tuesday, September 07, 2021

UNSHAKEN Festival

 





September 9th 

7:00pm

The Mill--Telegraph

330 S. 21st Street . Lincoln, NE

 

The festival will run 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.

 


 

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