Nights with Shakespeare
Richard III
NWS returns this Fall with Richard III beginning Tuesday, Sept. 24th at 6:30 pm.
- October 22nd
- October 29th
- November 12th
- November 19th
- November 26th
- December 3rd
- December 10th
11/5 had to be skipped due to scheduling conflicts.
O dear O my whatever shall be said?
Nights With Shakespeare forges ahead
Mellow, dramatic, a little absurd
Our play for the Fall is...Richard the Third!
That much-maligned monster of legend and story
Living in infamy, dying in glory?
No horsing around here, we'll just have to see
How one Willful teller re-writes hisstory
Great expectations? High comedy?
A chronicle-set-up for all tragedy?
A sick psychopathic much-thickened plot
Unearthed 'neath the pale of a parking lot?
His feudal bones, a futile find?
Or someone's bloody axe to grind?
To verify a righteous crown
That's one coney-hole we shan't go down!
Will truth be told, the Daughter of Rhyme?
Or shall we just have...a merry old time?
The White Rose, the Red Rose, all in one blow
Off with their heads...and on with the show!
Malevolent Machiavel? Misunderstood monster? Or simply, the next King of England…all in good time. “Now is the winter of our discontent”. Seasons will turn, strawberries will bloom, heads will roll, wives and mothers will wail. Shakespeare’s early “monster hit”. An actor’s tour-de-force. The perfect culminating history play: comedy, tragedy, farce, morality. Distorted fact? Devilish theater! Come one, come all...
"Richard III" – October 15, 2024
Script Download
For a PDF copy of the script for "Richard III" click below.
About Nights with Shakespeare
Leo Schaff
Leo Schaff is an actor, singer, songwriter, and poet, with a great passion for Shakespeare. Named “New Yorker of the Week” by Time-Warner Cable TV’s NY1 for his extraordinary contribution to the community through his Shakespeare classes, Leo is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and is a member of The Shakespeare Society of New York. Studied with Stella Adler, classically trained at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, performed at The Actors Studio and The Public Theater, toured the country in the plays of Shakespeare, and has appeared in film and TV (Law & Order).
As a songwriter, his work has been heard from Carnegie Hall to C.B.G.B.’s to the steps of the U.S. Capitol, where his co-written composition “Give Us Hope” – a children’s choir classic – was performed at President Obama’s First Inauguration. Guitar in hand, his one-man song/spoken-word creations, Found, and Won, played to sold-out audiences at New York’s Emerging Artists Theater Festival. He currently teaches Shakespeare at the 92d St. Y, and looks forward to sharing his sense of Shakespearean wonder and bottomless study with one and all.
Leo & Bob
June 20, 2017 Opening Night
Nights With Shakespeare is generously underwritten and presented FREE to the public by R.D. Scinto, Inc., one of the state’s largest real estate developers, at his corporate Auditorium located in the Shelton Corporate Park at 3 Corporate Drive, Shelton, Connecticut.
Tuesday evenings, from 6:30 to 7:30 pm
Seating is limited and is available on a ‘first-come’ basis.
Each participant receives one FREE copy of the play.
Portraits of Shakespeare in various styles. Scroll for more.
Poster Designer: Joe Pedoto
Nights with Shakespeare posters 2017-2023
Art Direction: Bob Smith.......Designer: Joe Pedoto
Framed posters from the 2010-2015 series are on permanent display in Corporate One.
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