‘The Tempest’ Comes to Kenilworth Public Library June 5

The Hudson Shakespeare Company will bring “The Tempest” to the Kenilworth Public Library, on Tuesday, June 5, 2018, at 7 p.m., for a one-night-only performance to kick off the 2018 Bard On The Boulevard series.
The Tempest is Shakespeare’s tale of shipwrecks, sorcery and young. In 1609, on the cusp of setting up the first permanent settlement in Jamestown, Virginia a ship called the Sea Venture, was part of a flotilla of ships carrying settlers and supplies to the new colony. Just off the coast of North America, the fleet came upon what was believed to be a hurricane. The ship was wrecked on an island in the Bermudas. Several months later the survivors rebuilt their ship and sailed on to Virginia. William Strachey and Sylvester Jourdain, two survivors of the wreck, returned to England a year later and wrote two separate accounts of their experience. The news of the miraculous return of the lost ship and crew swept the country and influenced Shakespeare to write The Tempest, his last solo play for the theater.
The Hudson Shakespeare Company of Jersey City was founded in 1992.
Funding for “The Bard on the Boulevard” has been made possible in part by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Department of State, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, through a grant administered by the Union County Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs.
Registration is required. Please call the library at 908-276-2451. The Kenilworth Public Library is located at 548 Boulevard, Kenilworth, New Jersey. Visit kenilworthlibrary.org to find out about services, events, and other library information. The library is accessible to all.