{photo: Hank Whittemore, writer and star of the one man show about the authorship of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, which will be presented by the Concordia University Shakespeare Authorship Research Center on the Armory Main Stage this Wednesday.}
Yet another intriguing event is coming to the Armory this Wednesday, August 20th.
This time its the world Premiere of a one man show called “Shake-speare’s Treason,” brought to you by Concordia University’s Shakespeare Authorship Research Center, a group of folk who, like Amy Freed did in last season’s hilarious Beard of Avon, suggests that Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford, may have been the man behind the “speare.”
Here’s what the press release has to say about the show:
Noting that next year marks the four-hundredth anniversary of the first printing of the Sonnets in 1609, Whittemore said the publication ‘quickly disappeared and remained underground for more than a century until 1711.’ Since then, he added, ‘these little verses have been perceived strictly as love poems, but, in fact, that’s only one side of a double image. That’s the romantic side of the Sonnets. The other side is political – and politically dangerous.’
Whittemore opens the show by drawing upon his own life and sharing his ‘journey of discovery’ into the ‘mysterious’ Book of Sonnets. ‘As the double image is unraveled,’ said director Ted Story, ‘the other side comes into focus and the sonnets come alive in a new context of the poet’s contemporary history. And then it dawns on members of the audience that they’re hearing the real human voice of the man who was Shakespeare, telling his own story in his own words.’”
There is a suggested donation of $35 for admittance to the performance. Proceeds will benefit the Shakespeare Authorship Centre.
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