Behind the Curtain: Backstage at the Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival 2023

This lecture will celebrate Cal Lutheran’s Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival, focusing on The Two Gentlemen of Verona and King Lear, the plays to be performed at this year’s festival. The first hour of the lecture will focus on the origins, production histories and challenges presented by each play. In the second hour, Michael Arndt will be joined by members of the company for an interactive discussion of Kingsmen Shakespeare and the plays.

Michael J. Arndt, MFA, has been a professor of Theatre Arts at Cal Lutheran for 40 years and is the artistic director of the Kingsmen Shakespeare Company (KSC). He was named a “local hero” by the Ventura County Reporter and “Patriotic Citizen of the Year” by the Conejo Valley Chapters of the Military Order of the World Wars and The Military Order of the Purple Heart. A Vietnam combat veteran, Arndt is currently co-authoring a book about the arts as a healing force for combat veterans titled “Making Contact: The Way to Healing from the Trauma of Combat.”

The Fifty and Better (FAB) program was designed for people 50 and older seeking intellectual stimulation through university level courses (without the pressure of grades) for the sake of learning and social engagement.

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Register by June 16 at 1 p.m.