Wakefield Community Access Television and Beebe Library invite you to a joint local broadcast and online streaming event featuring a screening of Stephano: The True Story of Shakespeare’s Shipwreck and an exclusive Q&A session with two-time Emmy-nominated producer Andrew Giles Buckley.

This 90-minute film, a presentation of the series Hit and Run History , shares the story of Stephen Hopkins, the only Mayflower passenger who had been to North America prior to the famed journey in 1620. A decade earlier, Hopkins was aboard a Jamestown-bound ship that wrecked on Bermuda and provided inspiration for Shakespeare’s play, The Tempest. Shot on-location, the Hit and Run History crew retraces Hopkin’s life crisscrossing the Atlantic and examines stories that Hopkins may have been the model for the drunken, mutinous Stephano in Shakespeare’s play. Hit and Run History seeks out the reality of a man who was everywhere at the founding of America.

This program is support in part by a grant from the Wakefield Arts Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.