Berkshire Theatre Festival Announces Upcoming Free Events

This week we have two free and exciting lectures planned for all of you.

Professor William Flesch, author of Comeuppance: Costly Signaling, Altruistic Punishment, and Other Biological Components of Fiction will be joining us for a lecture and talk-back about Macbeth on August 5 at 5:30 PM in the Unicorn Theatre. In addition to the free lecture, attendees will be able to purchase tickets to either of the day's preview performances of Macbeth for $20 through the Box Office (code "dramaturg").

Can a conventional villain be made the hero of a play? How? What would it take for us to feel for Macbeth? Professor Flesch will be discussing these questions as well as Macbeth and its place in Shakespeare's canon.

Our second lecture is by returning favorite David Auerbach, historian and BTF Boardmember. His lecture will be on Babes in Arms, which will take place on August 7 at 5:30 PM in the Unicorn Theatre.

The innocent Babes in Arms which captured Broadway in 1937 evolved into a sophisticated Hollywood call to arms in 1939 just as Orson Welles' infamous War of the Worlds radio drama panicked America. The talk will examine the state of mind of our country during this critical two year period as seen through the prism of these related events.