Saturday Shakespeare

Featuring Macbeth

Join Saturday Shakespeare at Aptos Library for five lively sessions with guest experts, group readings, and discussions, ending with a shared play viewing. Attend in person or on Zoom!

The Saturday Shakespeare Club will present five meetings on Shakespeare’s famous tragedy, Macbeth. The play, which explores themes of power, ambition, guilt and the corrupting nature of evil, contains some of Shakespeare’s best known lines. Macbeth is one of the plays that will be performed this summer by Santa Cruz Shakespeare.

April 18
Julia Reinhard Lupton. Julia is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UC Irvine, and dramaturg for UCI’s New Swan Summer Festival.

April 25
Charles Pasternak, Artistic Director of Santa Cruz Shakespeare. Charles will tell us about the ambition program he has created for this year’s season, in which no less than five plays will be presented, and also give us some thoughts on Macbeth.

May 2
Abigail Heald, lecturer in literature at UCSC focusing on Shakespeare, Renaissance literature, poetics, Tragedy, gender, and film. She recently taught a course on Shakespeare’s Henriad (Richard II, Henry IV, Parts I and Part II, and Henry V) at Stanford University.

May 9
Paul Mullins, theater director based in New York. Paul will direct Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s production of Macbeth this summer.

May 16
We will show a performance of the play on DVD. The choice of DVD will be announced later.