Reader’s Theatre Troupe to perform Romantic-era selections March 20
The Lewes Public Library Spoken Word Society’s Sublime and Dramatic: The Romantic Movement series will culminate with a live performance by the SWS Reader’s Theatre Troupe at 5 p.m., Friday, March 20, at the library, 111 Adams Ave., Lewes.
The troupe will perform poetry and prose from authors and poets of the Romantic movement. Featuring works by Keats, Byron, Shelley, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Smith, Hemans, Brontë and Poe, the performance will take audiences on a compelling journey through emotional peaks and valleys during an evening of spoken word artistry.
Registration is required; visit lewes.lib.de.us or call 302-645-2733.
The performance is directed by Jane Okma and features musical underscoring and effects by David White. Troupe members include Jane Okma, Roxanne Farrar, Sally Boswell, Peter Stoehr, Christopher Marks, Michael Redmond and Rich Harris.
This event is the fourth in the library’s Sublime and Dramatic series, exploring the period of the late 18th to mid-19th century, during which European artists, composers, authors, poets, and philosophers pushed back against the rationalism of the Enlightenment by embracing the sublime and the dramatic in nature, metaphysics and human emotion.
The Lewes Public Library Spoken Word Society celebrates the tradition and artistry of oral storytelling through lectures, performances, discussions, demonstrations and other publicly shared experiences.
