March 29, 2024

Stephano: The True Story of Shakespeare's Shipwreck- Virtual Filmmaker Talk

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Seekonk, MA – 10/1/2020 – This year Plymouth celebrates the 400th anniversary of the landing at Plymouth Rock. Did you know there’s a connection between the Mayflower and Shakespeare’s play The Tempest? Learn more about the film detailing this historical connection in the Zoom presentation Stephano: The True Story of Shakespeare's Shipwreck – A Virtual Filmmaker Talk with Andrew Giles Buckley hosted by Seekonk Library on Wednesday, October 21 at 6 PM. Register in the Events Calendar at www.seekonkpl.org to receive an email with the login information on October 19. If you’re not familiar with Zoom, contact the library at library@seekonkpl.org for assistance. This program is free and open to the public through a grant from the Seekonk Cultural Council, a local agency that is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

The character Stephano in Shakespeare’s last play The Tempest was inspired by New Plymouth’s real life, iconoclast tavern keeper Stephen Hopkins. Stephen Hopkins was the only Mayflower passenger who had been to North American previously; A decade before the Mayflower voyage, Hopkins had been aboard a Jamestown-bound ship that wrecked on Bermuda. Now one his descendants, two-time Emmy-nominated producer and host Andrew Giles Buckley, will share about his experience retracing Hopkins’ life in an adventure-travel documentary for the American public media series Hit and Run History.

For more information and to register, visit the library’s Events Calendar at www.seekonkpl.org, call the library at (508) 336-8230 or email library@seekonkpl.org.

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