The 2014 Shakespeare in the Grove production will be King Lear
featuring John Basinger in the title role.
- July 24 - 27, 2014
- 6 pm Live Music; 7 pm King Lear in the Grove at Middlesex Community College.
We are very excited to be welcoming John to the ARTFARM Ensemble as King Lear.
He is known locally for his unique performances of Milton's Paradise Lost, and, more recently, his one man version of Lear, The King. He has appeared with many theater companies, including the National Theater of the Deaf and at the O'Neill Center, and has appeared in films as diverse as Children of a Lesser God (with William Hurt, Piper Laurie and Marlee Matlin) to The Wash (with Dr. Dre).
We are also pleased to announce our headlining musicians for this year's performance:
Thursday 7/24 MixashawnFriday 7/25 Kate CallahanSaturday 7/26 Stacy Phillips and Paul Howard DuetSunday 7/27 Rani Arbo and Greg Ryan
Expand your King Lear experience with these FREE events:
Tuesday, July 22 at 7:00 pm, KING LEAR SCHOLAR TALK
“Going to Extremes in King Lear.” -- This talk by Professor John Klause will offer suggestions about how the local meanings in the text (notably those established by “extremes” of thought, feeling, action, imagination, and spectacle) contribute to questions about the “meaning of life” that are raised in the play. It will relate Shakespeare the playwright to Shakespeare the philosopher.
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Brief bio: John Klause, Professor Emeritus at Hofstra University, received his PhD in English Literature at Stanford University—after spending some time as a high school instructor in Louisiana. He taught for ten years at Harvard, and served as dean of one of Harvard’s residential colleges. He has published books on Shakespeare (Shakespeare, the Earl, and the Jesuit and an edition of the play Measure for Measure), on Renaissance Latin Drama (an edition of the seventeenth-century academic play Andronicus Comnenus), and on the seventeenth-century English poet and political writer Andrew Marvell (The Unfortunate Fall: Theodicy and the Moral Imagination of Andrew Marvell). He has published an array of articles on other writers of the early modern period, often emphasizing the connections of literature to the politics and religion of the time.
- Friday 7/25 Post Performance Talk-Back with Director and Actors, moderated by MxCC President Dr. Anna Wasescha.
- Saturday 7/26 Live ASL interpreted performance for hearing impaired audience members
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