With Valentine's Day on the horizon, Sunsets with Shakespeare is prepared to perform classic love literature.
Shakespeare wrote, "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind." But Sunsets with Shakespeare aims to make love tangible with performances and dinner at Woldumar Nature Center, 5739 Old Lansing Road in Lansing.
Ten performers from the community, MSU and local media will enact scenes and read poetry at 8 p.m. Tuesday.
Chad Badgero of the Peppermint Creek Theatre Company and two of his singers will take part in the show.
"We decided to do it because there was a lot of poetry for Valentine's Day, but no one was going back to the standards," Todd Heywood, Sunsets director, said.
Heywood said he wants to make it easy for people to relate to classic writers.
"'Romeo and Juliet' has probably one of the most romantic and most erotic scenes in English literature," he said.
Interdisciplinary humanities junior Lindsay Palinsky and her boyfriend will be doing the "Romeo and Juliet" balcony scene and a scene from "As You Like It." The couple met while acting in a Sunsets performance.
Dinner will be served before the show from 6 to 7:30 p.m. The performance begins at 8 p.m. The cost for dinner and the show is $30 per couple, $15 per person for dinner and the show, and $5 per person for just the show. Dinner will be catered by Gone Wired Cafe. For more information, call (517) 484-4492 or e-mail sunsetstheatre@aol.com. Sunsets is taking reservations until 5 p.m. today.
