On the heels of last October’s wildly successful cocktail party spotlighting some of the bard’s best lines, we are thrilled to announce a second pop-up Shakespeare experience coming in March—and this time, we’re taking the action outdoors! Join us on Sunday, March 12, as we transform our front steps into a stage for a plein air performance of Two Gentlemen of Verona. A collaboration between CLS’s Igoe Shakespeare Library and Special Collections Archives at the Charleston Library Society and the College of Charleston’s Department of Theatre and Dance, the abbreviated show will run for roughly 45 minutes.
A story of love and friendship, conflict and reprisal, infidelity and the foolish behavior of people in love, Two Gentlemen is one of Shakespeare’s most-loved (and oft-quoted) plays (see below).
Two Gentlemen of Verona is a free walk-up program and open to the public! Come watch and experience the Shakespearian magic during the Second Sunday transformation of King Street. We expect a large and lively standing crowd to turn out for this one-of-a-kind event—hope you’ll join us, too!