Theatre Nouveau's "The Shakespeare Lonely Heart's Club"
Shakespeare finds his way into four short plays about loneliness, friendship, and redemption!About this experience
Theatre Nouveau
presents
The Shakespeare Lonely Hearts Club
by Suzanne Ramczyk
May 31 to June 9
Theatre Nouveau presents its first production for 2024, The Shakespeare Lonely Hearts Club. This new piece, a collection of four short plays, addresses loneliness, particularly among seniors. The four categories of Shakespeare’s plays – the histories, the comedies, the tragedies and the romances – provide the overall structure for this quartet.
In two of the pieces, the comedy and the romance, two elderly women living in a senior residential community, navigate friendship and create new ways to counteract their loneliness. In the history, a divorced couple runs into each other after many years apart. Performing Shakespeare was a significant part of their former relationship, but can the Bard’s work bring them back together? In the tragedy, which takes place during a tumultuous civil war, an isolated elderly woman must find the strength to carry off what could be her final self-surpassing act.
Directed by Suzanne Ramczyk
This is a Theatre Nouveau production, not presented by Belfast Maskers. For more information about Theatre Nouveau, or this show, visit TheatreNouveau.org or email theatrenouveau2023@gmail.com