The Lewes Public Library presents SummerScape 2025, featuring fifteen live events in the library's new outdoor pavilion, celebrating performing arts, history, literature, and science!

Tonight Suzanne Savoy presents the World Premiere of The Book of Poissy. 

Be the first to experience this hidden gem of medieval French literature in its English-language world première performance! Light-hearted and modern in tone, Christine de Pizan’s tale written in 1400CE barely veils the poet’s surprising proto-feminism. Christine and her courtier friends take us on a glorious ride through the French countryside and witness first-hand the cloistered life of a self-sufficient community of nuns. Meanwhile, a big spat erupts between a lady and a gentleman over which of them has the most disastrous love-life, stirring up heartbreak and hilarity, and begging the question: Do nuns perhaps have it better than noblewomen after all? 

Music performed on lute by Mark Rimple and images of the remains of the priory of St.-Louis-de Poissy illuminate this staged reading. Bill Burford, a veteran of New York and Texas theatre, directs. Translator/performer Suzanne Savoy, a classically trained theatre artist, is also known for film roles and recurring TV appearances on How to Get Away with Murder, Full Circle, The Knick, House of Cards, Better Call Saul, and many others. Her most recent film, All of It, recently won “Best Comedy Feature” at the Marina del Rey Film Festival and has been submitted for the November 2025 Rehoboth Beach International Film Festival. 

To reserve a seat under the pavilion, each individual must register. Do NOT sign up two people under one reservation. Once all seats are reserved, walk-ins are welcome to sit on the grass surrounding the pavilion but must provide their own lawn chair or blanket.

In case of inclement weather, please check with the library on whether the offering will be moved to the large meeting room. Those who are registered will be guaranteed a seat in the large meeting room.

SummerScape 2025 Schedule

Wednesday, June 11 | 7:00 PM | Serafin Ensemble presents Chamber Music | String Splendor – Haydn and Dvorák
Wednesday, June 18 | 7:00 PM | Serafin Ensemble presents Chamber Music | Bach and Beyond
Wednesday, June 25 | 7:00 PM | Serafin Ensemble presents Chamber Music | String Splendor – Czech This!
Wednesday, July 9 | 7:00 PM | Delaware Shakespeare Presents a Preview of Their New Musical Adaptation of Twelfth Night
Wednesday, July 16 | 7:00 PM | Harriet Tubman Museum & Educational Center Presents The Power of Harriet Tubman
Wednesday, July 23 | 7:00 PM | The Lewes Historical Society Presents Tavern Talks
Wednesday, July 30 | 7:00 PM | Singers and Songwriters Presents the Genius of Rodgers and Hammerstein
Wednesday, August 6 | 7:00 PM | Tales from the Shark Side | Professor Aaron Carlisle, University of Delaware, School of Marine Science and Policy
Wednesday, August 13 | 7:00 PM | Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence | Dr. Michael Redmond
Wednesday, August 20 | 7:00 PM | Delaware Center for the Inland Bays Presents Wild Wonders of the Inland Bays: Learn, Connect, Protect
Wednesday, August 27 | 7:00 PM | Jack Lewis, Lewes Artist of Renown | Alan Jensen, Lewes Historical Society
Wednesday, September 10 | 7:00 PM | First State Ballet Presents an Evening of New Works
Saturday, September 13 | 7:00 PM | Suzanne Savoy Presents the World Premiere of The Book of Poissy
Sunday, September 14 | 2:00 PM | Gerald Dickens and Suzanne Savoy Present A Child’s Journey with Dickens
Sunday, September 14 | 7:00 PM | Gerald Dickens Presents Nicholas Nickleby!

SummerScape 2025 is partially funded by the generous support of
Groome Church and Browseabout Books
LPL Braithwaite Endowment Fund, Coastal Concerts, M & T Charitable Foundation, and The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company
Becker Morgan Group, The Inn at Canal Square, and The Lee Ann Wilkinson Group
Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. The Division promotes Delaware arts events on DelawareScene.com.