Resurgens Theatre Company

OPENING TONIGHT—SHAKESPEARE’S SIR THOMAS MORE. See today’s article in Decaturish (thank you kindly, Dan!). Show dates are Apr. 16-18 at 8:00 p.m., and Apr. 19 at 2:00 p.m. All performances will be at our new venue, the historic Pythagoras Masonic Temple (108 E. Ponce de Leon Ave.) in Decatur. For tickets and more info: www.resurgenstheatre.org.

‘Sir Thomas More’ to premiere at  Resurgens Theatre Company Resurgens Theatre in Decatur presents Shakespeare’s Apocrypha Now, a season highlighting plays partially attributed to Shakespeare, including Sir Thomas More, exploring themes of courage and conformity.

THIS WEEK—SHAKESPEARE’S SIR THOMAS MORE. Resurgens returns this spring with a stirring early modern account of one leader’s defiant stand against mob violence and groupthink in an era of autocratic misrule. Partially penned by Shakespeare, Sir Thomas More offers both a timely and timeless drama of individual courage in the face of mass conformity. The original production was banned from the Elizabethan stage by the Master of the Revels, Edmund Tilney, because of its controversial references to insurrection. Finally, over 400 years later, Dr. Brent Griffin brings this long-suppressed work to life as part of Resurgens’ yearlong sequence of plays, “Shakespeare’s Apocrypha Now.” Show dates are Apr. 16-18 at 8:00 p.m., and Apr. 19 at 2:00 p.m. All performances will be at our new venue, the historic Pythagoras Masonic Temple (108 E. Ponce de Leon Ave.) in Decatur. For tickets and more info: www.resurgenstheatre.org.

IN ONE MONTH—THE SPANISH TRAGEDY. Resurgens opens our year of “Shakespeare’s Apocrypha Now” with the first great revenge tragedy of the English stage, Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy! Show dates are Feb. 19-21 at 8:00 p.m., and Feb. 22 at 2:00 p.m. All performances will be at our new venue, the historic Pythagoras Masonic Temple (108 E. Ponce de Leon Ave.) in Decatur. For tickets and more info: www.resurgenstheatre.org.