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36-hour Shakespeare-a-thon!
a whirlwind of Shakesperience
April 29 at 7am to April 30 at 7pm, 2025
As part of Give Local Shakesperience Productions will be hosting all events for FREE and will be held IN PERSON!
Our doors will be open for the Entire 36 hours!
Come participate, donate, act, sing, dance, listen, read and more!
*Menu subject to change
Tuesday April 29, 2025
7am-8am: Grand Reveal: Experience our newly renovated space!
*8am-9am: Parts Making A Whole: Montage of staff and actors–past and present–sharing stories and text.
*9am-10am: Past and Present Make a Future: Highlights from our most recent programming.
10am-12pm: Poetry Workshop: Experience our newest interactive!
12pm-1pm: Shakespeare Interactive Workshops: Participate in the workshop that has taken CT by storm since 1996
1pm-2pm:Neighborhoods!: Enjoy some of our favorite scenes from our Neighborhoods! script. Then share your own story of Waterbury.
2pm-3pm: Perspectives! Challenge your creativity with sizes and angles by recreating the same image with Legos, Play-Doh, and more.
3pm-4pm: Mythology: Saturday Acting Intensives Students perform from our collection of mythology scenes
4pm-5pm: Art Gallery (MaryAnn Kochanowski): Explore MaryAnn’s creative journey through 'Anxiously Abstract.' Visit website: https://sites.google.com/view/anxiouslyabstract/home
5pm-6pm:Cyril the Sorcerer: Once upon a River, a fairytale environmental magic show.
6pm-7pm:Magic School: Waterbury’s Society of Young Magicians reveals the secrets of magic for ages 7-17.
7pm-9pm: Play Festival (writing): Draw a prompt from a hat and write using objects in the studio for inspiration.
9pm-11pm: Play Festival (rehearsal): Rehearse the plays created in the previous hour.
11pm-12pm: Play Festival (performance): New pieces created in under two hours ready for their debut!
Wednesday April 30th
12am-4am: Shakespeare’s Sonnets: Read. Every. Single. One.
+4am-6am: US Autism Association: Streaming video recordings of The Dramatic Arts with Elaine Hall; Voices Across the Spectrum: Mickey Rowe, Seamus Higgins, and Henry Durham
*6am-7am: We’re All In This Together: Montage of our Neighborhoods program: a community collaboration since 2013.
7am-9am: Board of Directors Hour: “Thank you” to our Board of Directors for all the time and commitment to the mission.
+9am-11am: US Autism Association Video presentation of Behind the Scenes: Ron Zimmerman in conversation with Mickey Rowe; Fearlessly Different: From Special Education to Broadway’s Biggest Stage
11am-12pm: Mathnasium: Solve a Rubix Cube. Play Connect Four. Sign up your child for math tutoring. All courtesy of our friends at Mathnasium on West Main Street
12pm-2pm: Plays by David Sirois: Series of short plays with Q&A afterward.
2pm-3pm: Writing Workshop: Share a work in progress, discuss with fellow writers, and hear it read aloud by actors.
3pm-4pm: Caesar Alternate Endings: Acting students from our winter term perform scenes from Julius Caesar followed by improv and discussions exploring different choices and outcomes.
4pm-5pm:Hamlet: Spring Acting Intensives students present their final performance.
**5pm-6pm: Shakespeare in the Litchfield Hills: Friends of Shakespeare in the Litchfield Hills discuss upcoming events! Live both in our Waterbury studio and Washington's Ideas Depot!
**6pm-7pm: Final Countdown of Give Local 2025 From two locations: Waterbury& Washington Depot!
**Double location:
Waterbury Studio AND Ideas Depot
11 Bryan Hall Plaza, Washington Depot