'A Paper Crown'

Friday, October 3, 2025
7:15 PM
Unity Park, Turners Falls — lot across from Nova Motorcycles on 2nd St.

'A Paper Crown' – A New Work from MSF

The Montague Shakespeare Festival is proud to announce the creation of a new, twenty-minute work: A Paper Crown. Born out of our experimental Labs, this piece draws only from Shakespeare’s characters and dialogue, focusing on kings and their downfall. Expect Richard III, Macbeth, witches, ghosts, Titus’ blood, and Joan of Arc on trial (spoiler: she is captured, called a witch, condemned, and bound for the flames).

Before the show, our revelers will parade through the streets with bullhorns and blues, then gather the crowd for a burst of Shakespearean mayhem.

Event details:
📅 Friday, October 3, 2025
⏰ 7:15 PM (performance time, part of the Great Ghouls Night Market running 5–9 PM)
📍 Unity Park, Turners Falls, MA — the lot across from Nova Motorcycles on 2nd St.

This work has grown directly from our Labs, where we found ourselves inch-thick, knee-deep, o’er head and ears in it — a workshop of words, movement, and sound. Our actors brewed something bold in the mad alchemy of Shakespearean text, tearing it open, turning it inside out, and mining for gold.

It's a Shakespearean uprising!