Sonnet Saturday!

Are you a little too passionate about theatre and poetry? Do you have a best friend with the same fury? Do you have a theatre company baby?

Here’s an idea, maybe you should start sharing that love with the world.

Well, that is what intended to do when Ruth and I started Sonnet Saturday.

I remember the first time Ruth and I read a sonnet by Shakespeare. It was well over two years ago during an outing to the beach. As my young mind dove into the strange, weird language that spoke of the deepest forms of love and used analogies to greek goddesses, I found the confusion intriguing. And Ruth and I sat the whole day to simply make sense of one poem.

Once we started performing Shakespeare, however, our love blossomed like Juliet for her Romeo (that was incredibly corny I know but I just had to make that reference).

As we scrambled to think of new shows and plays and work our fingers off to keep the sharing of theatre alive, it struck us that we would only be able to connect to our audience once in a blue moon as shows do take their sweet time to be prepared. Nonetheless, Ruth and I still had the desire to share our love for the arts in some way or form and thus Sonnet Saturday was born.

Every Saturday at 2pm we go live. Reading sonnets and occasionally other poetry. It has become the highlight of my week and the joy of our page.

The videos are anywhere from fifteen minutes to twenty-five, depending on how caught up we get. And every week we are enthralled by the brilliance of it.

Truly, the arts are a gift.

Written by Nizaan Henning.

a.k.a. Stone