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R. D. Scinto is thrilled to be welcoming back Leo Schaff and Shakespeare to the Shelton Corporate campus. Bob Scinto has been supporting and presenting Shakespeare for over 20 years in Fairfield County.
Nights with Shakespeare is returning April 9, 2024 with one of the greatest love stories in the canon and one of Shakespeare’s most beloved plays, Romeo & Juliet.
With a performer's enthusiasm and a scholar's curiosity, Leo Schaff acts out the entire play a portion at a time, then re-reads and “translates” each scene, bringing clarity and life to the language, stories and unforgettable characters. With great humor and a timely eye to Shakespeare's timeless relevance, Leo shares theatrical anecdote and literary critique to further illuminate the bottomless study of the Bard. Audience questions welcome!
Romeo and Juliet is forever famous for the quality of its lyric poetry, but also for its vivid evocation of passionate romance between the "star-cross'd lovers". Caught in their two noble families' world of "ancient grudge", we see their tragic fate unfold through foolish violence and fickle fortune.
For a PDF copy of the script for "Romeo & Juliet" click below.
Leo Schaff is an actor, singer, songwriter, and poet, with a great passion for Shakespeare. Named “New Yorker of the Week” by Time-Warner Cable TV’s NY1 for his extraordinary contribution to the community through his Shakespeare classes, Leo is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and is a member of The Shakespeare Society of New York. Studied with Stella Adler, classically trained at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, performed at The Actors Studio and The Public Theater, toured the country in the plays of Shakespeare, and has appeared in film and TV (Law & Order).
As a songwriter, his work has been heard from Carnegie Hall to C.B.G.B.’s to the steps of the U.S. Capitol, where his co-written composition “Give Us Hope” – a children’s choir classic – was performed at President Obama’s First Inauguration. Guitar in hand, his one-man song/spoken-word creations, Found, and Won, played to sold-out audiences at New York’s Emerging Artists Theater Festival. He currently teaches Shakespeare at the 92d St. Y, and looks forward to sharing his sense of Shakespearean wonder and bottomless study with one and all.
June 20, 2017 Opening Night
Nights With Shakespeare is generously underwritten and presented FREE to the public by R.D. Scinto, Inc., one of the state’s largest real estate developers, at his corporate Auditorium located in the Shelton Corporate Park at 3 Corporate Drive, Shelton, Connecticut.
Tuesday evenings, from 6:30 to 7:30 pm
Seating is limited and is available on a ‘first-come’ basis.
Each participant receives one FREE copy of the play.
Nights with Shakespeare posters 2017-2023
Framed posters from the 2010-2015 series are on permanent display in Corporate One.
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