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Spotlight: Shakespeare Theatre offers a weekly “Shakespeare Hour” to discuss the Bard’s works

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Simon Godwin — Photo: Johan Persson The irony of COVID-19 was not lost on Simon Godwin. “We were running Timon of Athens when the shutdown came,” says the newly installed Artistic Director of The Shakespeare Theater Company. “Timon is the story about somebody that goes from being on top of the world, being incredibly generous and much loved, to suddenly, in a matter of days, losing their money and ending up alone, self-isolating in a wood, despairing at the state of the world….

We realized that this play was an incredible prophecy. We, ourselves, had gone from a place of golden happiness to suddenly walking home alone, our theater shut down, our future uncertain, and very much resembling a character from the play.” Like so many other

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