The Reading Room Festival is a four-day festival of staged readings, panel discussions, workshops, and community celebrations. Shakespeare serves as a catalyst for today's playwrights—in a collaborative community, artists, critics, and scholars unite and actively engage in creating new narratives that speak to our time. Works presented at the Reading Room Festival are each at different points of their creative journey, and a goal of the Festival is that these plays will later be staged at the Folger or regional American theaters. Several Reading Room Festival presentations have enjoyed exciting post-Festival outings.

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By the queen
by Whitney White
8pm

From her roots as a provincial princess of France, to her ascension to the throne of England and her eventual downfall, Queen Margaret is one of the most complicated, fascinating, and thrilling characters in Shakespeare's works. She is a warrior, a wife, a politician, a mother… and this dynamic new drama, lifted and remixed from the text of Henry VI and Richard III, finally gives her story the telling it deserves.

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