Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies

We invite you to attend an unusual production, An Evening with William Shakespeare, with a Touch of Tom Stoppard, performed by a company of ten actors directed by Sidney Homan.  The show is at 7:30 PM on Thursday, April 18, in Ustler Hall (the Women’s Study Center on the UF campus), and it’s free, although donations to the Women’s Center Scholarship Fund will be gladly accepted.

 An Evening with William Shakespeare offers an array of some of the playwright’s best known, and best loved scenes.  See his lovers—Romeo and Juliet, Kate and Petruchio, Beatrice and Benedick—and his villains, from Richard III to Iago.   Great moments from the tragedies—Hamlet confronting his mother in her bedroom, or Lady Macbeth urging on her husband to murder the king—and the comic scenes: Shakespeare’s parody of bad actors in the “Pyramus and Thisbe” playlet  in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hal ‘s awkward wooing of the French Princess in Henry V, and Olivia falling in love with Viola disguised as a man in Twelfth Night.  For good measure, the company throws in two scenes from Tom Stoppard’s reworking of Hamlet in his Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

 That’s An Evening with William Shakespeare, with a touch of Tom Stoppard, at Ustler Hall, on Thursday, April 18, curtain at 7:30 PM.  For more information contact Professor Homan at shakes@ufl.edu.