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. 

Lewes’ favorite daughter, star of stage and screen, premieres her newest one-woman piece, The Book of Poissy. Christine de Pizan’s The Book of Poissy, written in 1400, is the lively retelling of a jaunt on horseback from Paris to Poissy. Along the way, Christine asks the reader to judge a “who’s saddest” competition between two tragi-comic lovers and slyly compares the life of women in a Dominican cloister with that of noble ladies living in the Age of Chivalry. The tale takes surprising and sometimes hilarious turns, as in moments when the lovers describe their paramours like prized racehorses, down to the set of their ears and noses. This is the first English translation of an overlooked Medieval French masterpiece, accompanied by lutenist Gaven Dianda.

Suzanne Savoy has made a career of performing on TV and in film and onstage in regional theatres, playing Shakespeare’s Desdemona, Emilia, Rosalind, Viola, and many other classical roles. Lately she has been translating the works of Christine de Pizan for performance and publication.

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.