Elmira Little Theatre Presents: Shakespeare in Love

Name: Elmira Little Theatre Presents: Shakespeare in Love
Start: 2025-02-07T19:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-02-07T22:00:00-05:00
Location: Clemens Center

Schedule

Fri Feb 07 2025 at 07:30 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Clemens Center | Elmira, NY

𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆
by Lee Hall
based on the film by Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman
Directed by Angela Daniels
Friday, February 7 & 14 at 7:30pm
Saturday, February 8 & 15 at 7:30pm
Sunday, February 9 & 16 at 2:00pm
We all know William Shakespeare as a brilliant, imaginative, funny, trendsetting playwright whose work has held up the test of time better than any other. We know he lived in the 16th century and that he performed plays for the Queen, but how did Shakespeare become the Shakespeare we know today? In this exciting play by Lee Hall, adapted from the screenplay by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, we get to witness a version of what might have been. Did Shakespeare have writer’s block from time to time? Did he need a muse to write his famous tragedy Romeo and Juliet? Lee Hall’s version of this successful screenplay follows the same story of Shakespeare meeting and falling in love with a aristocratic woman named Viola De Lesseps who wishes she could be an actor, and transforms it for the stage, just as Shakespeare did with stories in his day. It is funny, clever, filled with references to Shakespeare’s work, and a delight for theater goers of all ages.
Members please contact the Clemens Center Box Office at 607-734-8191 or 1-800-724-0159, Monday through Friday between 11:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. to reserve tickets.