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Gilding the Lily
April 10, 2015 | 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
$15 - $40Event Navigation
In Gilding the Lily the notorious 19th century celebrity Lillie Langtry takes the stage as Shakespeare’s Rosalind, played by Susannah Melone, but the American critics are unimpressed. Join Lillie as she explores her life, loves and the Forest of Arden to discover the difficult art of letting our hearts be our craft.
Running Time: 75 minutes no intermission
Presented as part of the “We Are…” Festival of Identity in Poetry, Prose, Music, and Dance by The Poets’ Theatre.
Did You Know?
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.