Instructor: Glenn Stuart

Tuesdays, 1:30 – 3:30 PM | Oct 10 – 31 @ Baker Free Library, Bow 

This is a play about people searching…for home, community, love, and self. Often funny but rooted in tragedy; it is joyous and life-affirming…full of yearning, grief and loss… an intriguing play.

We will view two distinct productions of Twelfth Night: the 1996 film directed by Trevor Nunn and featuring Ben Kingsley, Imogen Stubbs and Helen Bonham Carter and the 2017 Royal Shakespeare Company stage production directed by Christopher Luscombe. Hopefully our conversations will lead us not only to a deeper understanding of this deceivingly simple yet decidedly complicated play.

Glenn Stuart is a Professor of Theater, retired, at New England College where he taught for 38 years. He designed scenery and lighting for more than 125 theatre and dance productions.  As founding Director of the Open Door Theatre he designed and directed 20 productions including King Lear, Hamlet, The Winter’s Tale, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It and The Tempest. He holds an MA in Theater from the State University of New York, Albany where he studied with Roger Herzel, Jarka Burian and Judith Barlow.