Jan Blixt, Artistic Director of the Michigan Shakespeare Festival, Discusses England’s Kings and the British Monarchy

When

Thursday June 9, 2016: 7:00pm to 8:30pm  Add to Calendar /   Add to Google Calendar

Where

Downtown Library: Multi-Purpose Room

Description

Janice L Blixt, award-winning Artistic Director of the Michigan Shakespeare Festival, discusses England’s Kings and the history of the British Monarchy as they relate to Shakespeare’s plays and, most importantly, his audiences.

Find out what in-jokes, commentary, and references Elizabethan/Jacobean audiences would connect with and how Shakespeare used that common knowledge to further the drama in his plays.

Jan Blixt is directing this summer’s Richard II at the Michigan Shakespeare Festival and directed the critically acclaimed Henry IV (a combination of both parts of the Henry IV plays) last season. A professional director and classical actor in Chicago and Michigan for two decades, Jan has played most of the great female roles from Lady Macbeth to Twelfth Night’s Olivia. She is entering her sixth year as the MSF's Artistic Director,

As the Official Shakespeare Festival of the State of Michigan, the Michigan Shakespeare Festival is a professional Equity theatre company (LOA/LORT) dedicated to producing world-class classical plays. Now in preparation for their 22st year, the Festival performs in Jackson's lovely Baughman Theatre, and Canton's beautiful Village Theatre of Cherry Hill. The Michigan Shakespeare Festival inspires and entertains a diverse audience while further developing an appreciation for professional performances of Shakespeare's works and other classical plays.