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400: The Shakespeare Feast – Love Labor’s Lost
October 22, 2015 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
400: The Shakespeare Feast
at The Memphis Hunt and Polo Club
650 S. Shady Grove Road
Memphis, TN 38120
In memory of Mr. and Mrs. W.R. Herstein by the Miriam and Ernest Kelly Charitable Fund
and In memory of Mr. and Mrs. James Joseph Casserly by Pat and Ernest Kelly
Host Members: Margaret and Owen Tabor
Join us for dinner, drinks, and Shakespeare from page to stage as we commemorate the 400thanniversary of William Shakespeare’s passing. Six brief play readings preceded by a special buffet dinner/brunch at the historic and elegant Memphis Hunt & Polo Club. Some of your favorite TSC actors return to the Club stage to act the plays from Shakespeare’s First Folio. The cash bar will be open. Your inclusive ticket (except for bar) is $57. Attire: business casual/cocktail.
Love’s Labor’s Lost
directed by Dan McCleary
Thursday, October 22
6:00-9:00 pm with dinner buffet
“O, my little heart!”
Widely regarded as Shakespeare’s “feast of Language,” his 1598 romantic comedy combines the very best of his earlier elements in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Romeo and Julietin following a clutch of young men who make a pact to remove women from their lives in favor of meditation and scholarship. No sooner do the King of Navarre, Berowne, and the boys seal the deal than the Princess of France and her ladies arrive, thus immediately changing the play’s narrative forever.
In the woods of romance, too, are several of Shakespeare’s most scholarly clowns, providing experiences of love in robust and outlandish articulation – Professor Holofernes, Costard the clown, and Don Adriano de Armado the Spanish Knight Errant.