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Events This Month

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Wednesday

Book Discussion: "Pearl Buck in China: Journey to the Good Earth" by Hilary Spurling

11:30am - 12:30pm Program Room, Library, University Mall

This much honored biographer unearths the life and work of Nobel Prize winner Pearl Buck, whose novels captured ordinary life in China. It is an account of her life in China as the child of Presbyterian missionaries and how the secrets and griefs of childhood can shape a writer. Buck was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938.

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Saturday

Beyond the Books: CANCELLED Playmakers: The Prologue Series -- The Making of a King: Henry IV by William Shakespeare

12:00pm - 1:00pm TBD

CANCELLED. An epic coming-of-age tale that follows the education of young Prince Hal from his unpromising start in bawdy houses and taverns under the tutelage of the larger-than-life Sir John Falstaff to his rise as one of England’s greatest monarchs, King Henry the Fifth. Travel from palaces to battlefields, from civil war in Britain to battles in the “vasty fields of France” on another of PlayMakers’ great journeys.

Michael Winters, well known from TV’s Gilmore Girls and last seen at PlayMakers as King Lear in 2004, will play Falstaff.

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Monday

Meet-the-Author Tea: Ken Broun: "Saving Nelson Mandela"

2:00pm - 3:00pm University Mall

In “Saving Nelson Mandela,” South African law expert Kenneth S. Broun recreates the trial—called the “Rivonia” Trial after the Johannesburg suburb where police seized Nelson Mandela. Based upon interviews with many of the case’s primary figures and portions of the trial transcript, Broun situates readers inside the courtroom at the imposing Palace of Justice in Pretoria. (Lobby of Deep Dish)

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Saturday

Beyond the Books: CANCELLED Playmakers: The Prologue Series -- The Making of a King: Henry V by William Shakespeare

12:00pm - 1:00pm TBD

CANCELLED. An epic coming-of-age tale that follows the education of young Prince Hal from his unpromising start in bawdy houses and taverns under the tutelage of the larger-than-life Sir John Falstaff to his rise as one of England’s greatest monarchs, King Henry the Fifth. Travel from palaces to battlefields, from civil war in Britain to battles in the “vasty fields of France” on another of PlayMakers’ great journeys.

Michael Winters, well known from TV’s Gilmore Girls and last seen at PlayMakers as King Lear in 2004, will play Falstaff.

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