Town Hall & Middlebury College to Welcome Tina Packer for 'WOMEN OF WILL'

Town Hall Theater and Middlebury College welcome one of the foremost experts on Shakespeare, Tina Packer for a conversation and book signing of her newest work Women of Will : Following the Feminine in Shakespeare's Plays.

Ms. Packer is the founding artistic director of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts. She has directed most of Shakespeare's plays (some of them several times), acted in seven of them (never when directing) and taught the whole canon one way or another at over thirty colleges in the U.S., including Harvard, M.I.T. and NYU.

Tina's book, Women of Will, explores the themes of love, loss, freedom, control, violence, and power through the heroines of Shakespeare's text. Drawing on her knowledge as director, actor, and teacher, Packer traces the chronological evolution of Shakespeare's female characters and examines Shakespeare's own journey and growth as a writer from feckless misogynist in his youth to committed lover in his middle years to unrepentant feminist in his final years. Copies of Women of Will will be available for purchase at the theater.

After the conversation and book signing, Tina will coach the cast of "Straight Up Shakespeare" in an illuminating workshop, which is open to the public and free of charge. "Straight Up Shakespeare" will be performing at Middlebury College as part of their First Folio celebration on February 18 at 5:15.

The theatrical performances of Women of Will, on which the book is based, will take place at Middlebury College on consecutive nights : first, "Force and Heat: The Early Plays" on Saturday, February 20, 2016 at 8:00 P.M.; then "Chaos and Redemption: The Later Plays" on Sunday, February 21, 2016 at 7:00 P.M., both at Wright Memorial Theatre.

Saturday, Feb. 20. Conversation and Book Signing: 1pm, Free Workshop: 2:30. Tickets for the conversation and book signing are $10 and may be purchased at www.townhalltheater.org, 802-382-9222, at the THT box office, or at the door.

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