Like a Burns Supper, a Sidney Supper includes a pageant produced by volunteers from among the invited guests. It's grand fun, and this year we even have a stage and sound system. Yet it's still informal and you are encouraged to make a fool of yourself!

Previous pageant presentations have included these sorts of events:

Scenes from the play The King's Yellow, read by the playwright and by actors.

A duet from Much Ado About Nothing with guitar accompaniment.

A short movie of our adventures on a pilgrimage of Mary Sidney's homes in England, Looking for Mary.

The balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet, cross-dressed.

A presentation of James Thurber's The Macbeth Murder Mystery.

A song-and-dance (lyrics in hand) of Brush Up Your Shakespeare, from the musical Kiss Me, Kate.

A musical interlude called A Little Elizabethan R&R.

A finger-puppet show of a hilarious dialogue between Mary Sidney and William Shakespeare.

A sonnet (sort of) read in Russian.

Original and "Shakespearean" sonnets have been read, scenes acted out, music and songs played, and more. Serious, somber, playful, thoughtful -- everything is acceptable!