Two Pence Theatre
Co. proudly announces the second year of
their popular reading series Dead Man’s
Hand. Featuring 90 minute cuts of plays written by Shakespeare’s peers,
friends and frenemies. Each reading features a new lineup of Chicago’s most
exciting actors and directors in casual settings exploring these often
overlooked gems (and the occasional hilarious stinker.) From Beaumont to
Webster, and everyone in between, join Two Pence for a beer and hear what was
going on in the theatre world when Olde English was modern, the streets had no
gutters, and no one knew that ole’ Will Shakespeare would be the one to
outshine them all. Each reading is
“pay-what-you-can” and for more information visit http://www.twopencetheatre.org or https://www.facebook.com/TwoPenceTheatre
Title: The Knight of the Burning Pestle
Playwright: Francis Beaumont (and
probably John Fletcher)
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Director: Eliza Hofman
Featuring: Danielle Pinnock, Ned Baker, Adam Goldstein, Holly Allen, Brian Grey,
Sigrid Sutter, Lucy Carapetyan and Jared Dennis and the music of bluegrass trio
– The Bonesteelers.
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and they're not going to take it anymore. They storm the stage and cast their
apprentice Rafe in a new play they call The Knight of the Burning Pestle,
sending him on a quixotic quest to rescue the victims of Barbaroso ,the evil
barber. Meanwhile, the real players are still attempting to put on the old play which is about...well. You'll
see. Featuring local blugrass trio The Bonesteelers performing an
opening set and in the reading as “ The Musicians” !
