* Due to the forecast, today’s (2/20) performance has been cancelled.  Tickets for today’s show will be honored at any other performance.  For any questions please contact SMASH at someshakespeareanhs@outlook.com.

Peter Maxwell, a 16-year-old homeschooler from South China, will star in this year’s upcoming production of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. It will be performed at Cumston Hall, in Monmouth’s historic theater. Maxwell is playing the part of Petruchio, the leading man who must win the heart of his shrewish wife, Katherine, played by Danielle Bean, a homeschool senior from Troy.

Peter has been acting in Shakespeare plays since he was nine years old. Petruchio is his seventh and most challenging role, with over 600 lines.

The show, put on by Southern Maine Association of Shakespearean Home schoolers (SMASH), will be performed for two weekends on February 20*, 21, 27 and 28. There will be Friday evening performances, and Saturday matinees, for those who would rather not go out after dark. For more information go to smashmaine.jimdofree.com.