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Peter Pan, Winnie-the-Pooh, Shakespeare, and many more beloved stories have been cherished by all of us for such a long time that they have woven themselves into our cultural tradition and belong to all of us.

In their inaugural edition of "Ours, Reimagining the Public Domain" Pronoia has selected nine new works by nine contemporary authors which make use of public domain material.

Join us for two sessions of staged readings at Spring Branch Memorial Library. The event is entirely free!

2:00 PM: All-Ages Appropriate Reading (some dark themes apply)

Wendy Darling by Ira Hauptman (retelling Peter Pan by JM Barrie)

The World Ends by Isabelle Tinti-Kane (inspired by The Hollow Men by TS Eliot)

Gulf of Misunderstanding by Chris Browne Valenzuela (fictionalized dramatization of Gulf of Misunderstanding, or the North and South looking at Each Other by Tancredo LeBrun)

Murder at Pastor Dan's by Dennis Buddee (inspired by The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie)

4:00 PM: Appropriate for Ages 16 and up

Tragedy + Time by Blaire Battle (a sequel to Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare)

Dust Center by Ben Seidensticker (Reimagining of As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner)

Good Romans by Baylee Shlichtman (sequel to Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare)

Recuerdo by Ellen K. Graham (inspired by Recuerdo by Edna St. Vincent Millay)

Vile Bodies by Adina Opalek (dramatization of Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh)