Beats of the Heart: The Sonnets, the Stories and the Telling October 19, 2012

Oct 19 & 20 8pm, Oct 21 2pm, Oct 26 & 27 8pm, Oct 28 2pm

Petaluma Readers Theatre illuminates Shakespeare's sonnets using stories that reflect the essence of the poems. Hear the sonnet, hear the story and understand.

"The human heart beats about 72 times a minute. Tick-tock goes our hearts, circumscribing our stories, marking time for the sonnets we write. The "ticking" of a Shakespeare sonnet is called iambic pentameter, iambic pentameter--it sounds like a medical condition, a heart condition, a condition of the heart. 10 beats per line, 10 syllables, 10 snippets of emotion strung together to tell a story, share a feeling, scold a friend, plead for mercy, woo a lover. Each group of 10 beats is a lungful of air, it is the music of the heart translated into speech. And patched together they form heroic couplets shouting out a life filled with passion."

Join Petaluma Readers Theatre as they explore the sonnets and illuminate the stories they tell.

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