All Library locations will be closed Thursday, July 4, for Independence Day.
Senior Peers Actively Renewing Knowledge (SPARK) partners with the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival and the Kansas City Public Library, to offer a series of lectures on HASF’s summer production of King Lear presented in Southmoreland Park, June 16 - July 5, 2015.
The lectures take place on five consecutive Mondays in June in Cohen Center on the lower level of the Plaza Branch.
Monday, June 1 – Introduction to King Lear Presented by Alyson Germinder, Festival Associate Monday, June 8 – “Purpose and Punishment: King Lear as an Allegory for Ripping Apart the Natural Order of the World” Presented by Adam Potthast, Park University Monday, June 15 – Behind the Scenes Presented by Sidonie Garrett, Executive Artistic Director HASF, with staff and cast members Monday, June 22 – Lear's Wise Fool: The Conscience of the King Presented by Robert Willson, UMKC Monday, June 29 – Selected visual production history from the 19th century to the present. Presented by Felicia Londre, UMKC
Monday, June 1 – Introduction to King Lear Presented by Alyson Germinder, Festival Associate Monday, June 8 – “Purpose and Punishment: King Lear as an Allegory for Ripping Apart the Natural Order of the World” Presented by Adam Potthast, Park University Monday, June 15 – Behind the Scenes Presented by Sidonie Garrett, Executive Artistic Director HASF, with staff and cast members Monday, June 22 – Lear's Wise Fool: The Conscience of the King Presented by Robert Willson, UMKC Monday, June 29 – Selected visual production history from the 19th century to the present. Presented by Felicia Londre, UMKC