Besse’s Will
When
Runs from
Thursday October 26 2023
to Saturday October 28 2023
Approximate running time: 2 hours
Venue
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Besse’s Will by Christina Penhale & Jeffery Renn
A co-production with At Your Service Arts from Saltspring Island.
A COVID love letter to theatre, Shakespeare and good Queene Besse. Apocryphally there’s a contention that Elizabeth 1 played Titania in the first production of Dream at a wedding in Southampton during the theatre’s closure due to plague. Elizabeth’s court had moved to Southampton in 1593 and we know Shakespeare was there writing his sonnets to Henry Wrothelsey, earl of Southampton.