Tennessee Shakespeare Co. - 2024-2025 Playbill

10 TNSHAKESPEARE.ORG Enhanced Literary Salon The Grace of Grace: Shining a Light Through Shakespeare’s Broken Villains created and played by DAN McCLEARY with LAUREN GUNN on the TABOR STAGE JANUARY 25 – FEBRUARY 9 SATURDAYS at 7:30 pm/SUNDAYS at 3:00 pm In a life buffeted by familial loss, religious persecution, censorship, plagues, political upheaval, social violence, and a dark lady, William Shakespeare perhaps felt compelled to create his cast of fully-human “villains.” Why do we still revere them, and what makes them archetypal? McCleary, who has played most of them over 35 years, explores Shakespeare’s men of deformity, abuse, honor, and prejudice – all framed by Shakespeare’s famously too-kind Macbeth, whose inexplicable horror has helped shape our modern psyche. This enhanced Salon will feature full production values on stage.