Shakespeare Seen by Scene;
Meet the Artist Library Program

September 12, 2009, 2:00 pm

Staten Island, NYPL
St. George Library Center
5 Central Avenue

There’s a reason that the plays of William Shakespeare return to the stage and screen time and time again: they’re brilliant! Enter stage right: the talented players of the Point of Entry Theatre Company. This young and accomplished ensemble takes a scene-by-scene approach to exploring Shakespeare’s works. The basis of its entertaining and highly interactive program is a series of brief, fast-paced scenes which provide audiences with a firsthand look at Shakespeare’s dramatic masterpieces and their continued relevance. By highlighting exciting stage combat, laugh-out-loud humor, and Shakespeare’s keen eye for the human condition through dramatic monologue, these talented performers bring Shakespeare’s often intimidating works down to size. Point of Entry Theatre Company uses physicality and action on stage to illuminate the language of these plays and make them as accessible and enjoyable for audiences today as the Bard did for his audiences four centuries ago.

Point of Entry Theatre Company: Point of Entry Theatre Company under the direction of Christopher V. Edwards is a theater company committed to cross-cultural story telling that anchors itself in adaptations and bold retellings of classical works, as well as contemporary works that exhibit classical scope from around the globe. The company strives to make Shakespeare accessible to people of all ages.

Free and open to the public

Meet the Artist Library Series, part of Lincoln Center's 50th Anniversary
We are pleased to bring world-class performing artists to your local library as part of Lincoln Center's 50th Anniversary celebrations. Special thanks to Brooklyn Public Library; The New York Public Library, Bronx and Staten Island Divisions; and Queens Library.

Meet the Artist Series
Lincoln Center's Meet the Artist programs, including both the School Series and specially tailored custom programs, take place at Lincoln Center or at host site locations and introduce students and audiences of all ages to the arts through intimate, live performances paired with a unique opportunity to interact with performers.

Major support for Meet the Artist is provided by Betsy and John Levin and International Flavors & Fragrances. Endowment support is provided by Disney.

Special support for the Meet the Arts Library Series, part of Lincoln Center's 50th Anniversary, is provided by internationals Flavors & Fragrances, the Charles H, Revson Foundation, and Carnegie Corporation of New York.