Central College Theatre Department to Premiere Film Series “Shakespeare Shorts”
PELLA, IA (02/15/2021) Central College’s theatre department will present “Shakespeare Shorts” online only from Feb. 24-27. It can be accessed at central.edu/shakespeare.
The series will premiere at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 24, and is available to stream online through midnight Saturday, Feb. 27.
The series is made up of short films that redefine the works of Shakespeare:
“Between the Trees” follows the tragic love hexagon between openly lesbian poet Natalie Clifford Barney and lover Pauline Tarn, who wrote under the pen name Renée Vivien, by utilizing the lines of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night.”
Central College’s theatre department will present “Shakespeare Shorts” online only from Feb. 24-27. It can be accessed at central.edu/shakespeare.
The series will premiere at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 24, and is available to stream online through midnight Saturday, Feb. 27.
The series is made up of short films that redefine the works of Shakespeare:
“Between the Trees” follows the tragic love hexagon between openly lesbian poet Natalie Clifford Barney and lover Pauline Tarn, who wrote under the pen name Renée Vivien, by utilizing the lines of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night.”
“In the Dark” attempts to redefine understandings of gender and sexuality as malleable using contradictory lines from Act Two Scene One in “Taming of the Shrew.” The film takes place in the 1970s during a surge of social reform.