<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-07-21/westmont-news/lecture-uncover-creativity-behind-producing-shakespeare-play.html" dsn="news"><pubDate>09/26/2005</pubDate><title>Lecture to Uncover the Creativity Behind Producing a Shakespeare Play</title><excerpt>Two Westmont theater arts professors will offer their creative insight and discuss the artistic choices involved in staging a Shakespearean play. John Blondell and Mitchell Thomas will host the opening 2005-2006 Westmont Downtown Conversation, Thursday, Oct. 6, at 5:30 p.m. at the University Club, 1332 Santa Barbara St. The lecture is entitled: “Sad Stories of the Death of Kings: Approaches to Staging Shakespeare’s ‘King Richard II.’”</excerpt><author>Westmont</author><image>
            
            
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