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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Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
Adapted by Reynaldo Piniella and Emily Lyon
Spanish translation by Christin Eve Cato
Additional Anishinaabe translations by Ty Defoe
4pm

Hamlet is a Black, Latinx prince in this bilingual reimagining of Shakespeare's tragedy, with text infused by the Spanish spoken in present-day New York City.

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