Actors' Shakespeare Project Presents TYRANT, SHOW THY FACE

Actors' Shakespeare Project presents TYRANT, SHOW THY FACE, a one-of-a-kind special benefit, curated around world-renowned Shakespeare Scholar Stephen Greenblatt and his new book new book Tyrant: Shakespeare On Politics on Thursday, June 7 (7 PM) at The Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge. Greenblatt examines the themes of power and tyranny in some of Shakespeare's most famous plays - from the dominating figures of Richard III, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Macbeth, and Coriolanus to the subtle tyranny found in Measure for Measure and The Winter's Tale.

The event features a live discussion/interview with Greenblatt and WGBH's Executive Arts Editor & Host of Open Studio Jared Bowen around the book. ASP Resident Acting Company members and ASP Youth will collaborate with Greenblatt to illuminate Shakespeare's tyrants, from the fierce to the funny, with excerpts from Shakespeare's plays and ASP-devised interactive performance pieces.

$125 (7 PM) includes a private reception with Stephen Greenblatt, ASP actors, and Tyrant book signing, followed by the main event. ($85 tax-deductible) $95 (8 PM Dessert, Conversation, and Performances. During the evening, Porter Square Books will have copies of Tyrant for sale. For tickets and information visit, www.actorsshakespeareproject.org/greenblatt.

Actors' Shakespeare Project, founded in 2004, is an award­-winning professional theater company with a Resident Acting Company and extensive education, youth, and community programs. ASP performs and works in found spaces, schools, theaters and neighborhoods to present and explore the robust language, resonant stories, and deeply human characters in Shakespeare's plays and in works by other great playwrights. Our work is ensemble-­based and focused on intimacy, storytelling, language, relationships, voice, risk and artistry within and throughout the Boston area.