Black Lucy and The Bard

Explore Shakespeare’s love life through the perspective of the “Dark Lady” in this work from Nashville Ballet based on poetry by Caroline Randall Williams and featuring an original score by GRAMMY winner Rhiannon Giddens.

Poet Caroline Randall Williams walks the audience through how she imagined what the meeting between Shakespeare (Owen Thorne) and Lucy (Claudia Monja) might have been like.

Poet Caroline Randall Williams introduces a party that Lucy (Claudia Monja), Shakespeare (Owen Thorne) and the Fair Youth (Nicolas Scheuer) all may have attended in London in 1594.

Go behind the scenes of Nashville Ballet's production of "Black Lucy and the Bard" and hear from the creative team who made it including author and performer Caroline Randall Williams choreographer and director Paul Vasterling and composer Rhiannon Giddens.