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Our Mission
Two Pence Theatre Company provides the city of Chicago and the surrounding communities with superior quality storefront productions of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
Two Pence fosters and produces revolutionary new works with classical, universal, and humanistic themes.
Two Pence serves the Chicago theatre community by providing innovative, investigative, and professional quality classical actor training.
Two Pence cultivates, inspires, and educates future generations by bringing Shakespeare into learning institutions through in-school residencies and performances, summer youth programs, and workshops.
Two Pence is peerless in its resolve to provide innovative leadership, and forge a revolutionary approach to arts management and culture. Together we will strive for a new level of artistic excellence.
Our Vision
To build in Chicago a Classical Theatre Performance, Training, and Educational Center focused on helping people discover, share and harness the unique power of the Early Modern era's truly inventive artistic environment. This unique era allowed William Shakespeare to become the most produced, influential, and sublime playwright of our time.
When actors and students experience Shakespeare's plays on their feet in a collaborative and non-judgemental environment, they create a theater which is a Sacred Space for all to reveal, witness, and experience their own humanity, divinity, and personal power. By encouraging company members and participants to be authors of their own experience, Two Pence inspires artists to use their own voices as revolutionary influence amongst all peoples, allowing words and deeds to resonate.
As an organization, Two Pence will encourage a standard of positive and conscious action, making us a lighthouse in our community, a beacon that encourages all to examine our shared experience on this earth. Two Pence strives to help people discover their own understanding of the universal truths and stories of the past and use their present words and actions to create sacred and profane works of art for the future.
We create by the motto In vultus tergum, vultus porro - In looking back, looking forward.