Join the Rustic Mechanicals, the American Globe Center, and Hart Kitchen are pleased to invite you to a very special birthday celebration for the immortal William Shakespeare. The evening begins at 6p with a five course menu prepared by Chef Anne Hart and her culinary team featuring Kickshaws (Twelfth Night), Pottage (Othello), Sallet (Henry VI), Bak'd Meats (Hamlet), and Possets (Macbeth). At 7:30p Rustic Mechanicals' Founders Jason and Sarah Young will share their original show Shakespeare's Villains & Clowns @ the Globe!

Shakespeare's Villains & Clowns @ the Globe is a two-actor mix tape of scenes, songs, and improv that playfully showcases how Shakespeare’s Staging Conditions fuel the AGC style to entertain the socks off audiences of all ages and backgrounds. If you already love Shakespeare, or if you are not yet a fan, this one-hour event will turn you into a true believer in the AGC. This is a chance to get in on the ground floor of the AGC's grand plan to build the world's only timber-frame re-creation of Shakespeare's 1614 Globe theatre along with a state-of-the-art performing arts and education center. We’ll show you how we are turning the state of Connecticut into Shakespeare Central for the region and nation, all while you enjoy an hour filled with fun.

THE RUSTIC MECHANICALS

Founded by Celi Oliveto in the summer of 2014, The Rustic Mechanicals is the only troupe of actors in the state dedicated to touring the works of William Shakespeare and other classical playwrights.

The Mechanicals now tour five shows annually, including their summer West Virginia Shakespeare in the Park(s) outdoor tour and script-in-hand productions that we call, “a Play, a Pie, and a Pint,” focusing on making Shakespeare’s plays accessible to modern audiences by utilizing dynamic and extreme casting techniques paired with Shakespeare’s staging conditions.

Previous productions include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado about Nothing, Macbeth, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice, Romeo & Juliet, The Merry Wives of Windsor, King Lear, Richard III, The Comedy of Errors, Hamlet, Measure for Measure, As You Like It, Julius Caesar, Titus Andronicus, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Cymbeline, and the original works Timeless Romance and Toil & Trouble. 

AMERICAN GLOBE CENTER

The American Globe Center (AGC) is a visionary theatre project poised to transform destination entertainment, Shakespeare, and education in the United States and beyond. The AGC will be a profoundly new fusion of the old and new: a theatre campus in New England that features the world's only timber-frame re-creation of Shakespeare's 1614 Globe theatre along with a modern performing arts and education center. The AGC's immersive performance style creates community and connects audiences with our shared humanity, building a brighter future for education and live theatre.