Please join us this Tuesday, August 8, from 4:30- 5:30 pm, for the exhibit opening at the Simpson Library of "What's Past Is Prologue: Celebrating 100 years of Shakespeare in the Kingdom".

In 1923, Jean Simpson founded the East Hill Players, and each summer for the next 50 years she gathered a group of teens and adults to perform Shakespeare. They performed outside and inside, in Craftsbury and Greensboro.

Now in 2023, the summer Shakespeare camp, Get Thee to the Funnery, is in its 25th year just down the road from the Library at the Highland Center for the Arts. This week, 32 young actors (12 to 18 years old) are memorizing lines, stretching themselves in the heart, mind, body, and voice, and getting ready to perform two weekend performances of Shakespeare's immortal comedy Twelfth Night.

In celebration of these two Shakespeare traditions, we have created an exhibit at the Library that includes vintage costumes, cast lists, a 1928 film of the East Hill players performing Romeo and Juliet, and a colorful array of iconic T-shirts from the Funnery archives.

We hope you can join us on Tuesday afternoon to enjoy some refreshments, meet some of the Funnery actors and staff, and find out how summer Shakespeare performing has been a big thing in Craftsbury and Greensboro, for one hundred years.

Also, mark your calendar for Twelfth Night this weekend! There is a Friday performance at the Highland Center for the Arts at 5:30 pm, and a Saturday performance following the Old Home Day parade, at 2 pm in the formal garden at Sterling College.

Event Info

Dec 25, 2024, 5:45 to 6:15 PM

Dec 26, 2024, 4 to 6 PM

Dec 29, 2024, 9 to 11 AM