{"id":15870,"date":"2023-10-09T11:07:51","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T16:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=15870"},"modified":"2023-10-09T11:27:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T16:27:06","slug":"the-traveling-stone-soup-shakespeare-company-feeds-a-vital-human-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=15870","title":{"rendered":"The traveling Stone Soup Shakespeare Company feeds a vital human need"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Kevin Lynch\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/facebook-button-plugin\/images\/large-facebook-ico.png\" alt=\"Fb-Button\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like fcbkbttn_large_button\"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=15870\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"large\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=15870\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15874\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?attachment_id=15874\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_1188.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"480,640\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_1188\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_1188.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15874\" src=\"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_1188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_1188.jpg 480w, https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_1188-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><em>A scene from Stone Soup&#8217;s &#8220;Pericles&#8221; (clockwise from top) Ashley Leake,\u00a0<\/em><em>Theo Zucker,\u00a0<\/em><em>Lauren Becker, T<\/em><em>era Flores. Courtesy Julia Stemper.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stone Soup Shakespeare<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Performing Shakespeare free for 13 seasons<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>This fall concluded with Pericles<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Artistic director: Julia Stemper (&#8220;Head dreamer and performer&#8221;)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Chicago-based traveling troubadours blessed the Shorewood Public Library with a vibrant performance recently.<\/p>\n<p>Performing Shakespeare for free is like giving open-hearted to humanity to harvest its sunlit poetic genius for all to grow, like oaks. As Harold Bloom, among our most dedicated Shakespeare thinkers, wrote, &#8220;The ultimate use of Shakespeare is to let him teach us to think too well, to whatever truth you can sustain without perishing.&#8221; Bloom may seem to diminish &#8220;feeling&#8221; or the heart in this statement. But that&#8217;s hardly true of\u00a0 the great book from which it comes: <em>Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human<\/em>, a supreme effort to sum up the world&#8217;s greatest poet.<\/p>\n<p>Bloom suggests that Shakespeare&#8217;s universality allows us chance to stow the beauty and wisdom that life requires of us.<\/p>\n<p>Beauty is the vibrant color of life, including the rough textures of pain and loss. After all, what do seed and leaf truly feed from? The color of the light.<\/p>\n<p>Wisdom waits, yes, yet abides where we need it.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, the need to heed him endlessly into time. Thank you, Stone Soup, for signifying and abiding him, most obviously in his great humor, as he flourishes.<\/p>\n<p><em>Pericles<\/em> cast 2023:<\/p>\n<p>Pericles: Ashley Leake<\/p>\n<p>Heilcanus: Sofia Carvajal<\/p>\n<p>Cerimon: Tera Flores<\/p>\n<p>Thaisa: Dana Macel<\/p>\n<p>Marina: Theo Drucker<\/p>\n<p>__________<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; A scene from Stone Soup&#8217;s &#8220;Pericles&#8221; (clockwise from top) Ashley Leake,\u00a0Theo Zucker,\u00a0Lauren Becker, Tera Flores. Courtesy Julia Stemper.\u00a0 \u00a0 Stone Soup Shakespeare Performing Shakespeare free for 13 seasons This fall concluded with Pericles Artistic director: Julia Stemper (&#8220;Head &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=15870\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2267,1794,236,2269,2266,234,2272,2270,235,2271,2268],"class_list":["post-15870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-www-kevernacular-com","tag-ashley-leake","tag-harold-bloom","tag-julia-stemper","tag-lauren-becker","tag-pericles","tag-shakespeare","tag-shakespeare-the-invention-of-the-human","tag-sofia-carvajal","tag-stone-soup-shakespeare","tag-tea-flores","tag-theo-zucker"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hJWE-47Y","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15870"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15880,"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15870\/revisions\/15880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}