The library will continue our “Theater Thursday” series with a screening of Timon of Athens on Thursday, January 16, at 3 p.m. In a world driven by greed, what do we truly value? Timon has it all – money, influence, friends. Surely it can’t last? When the money runs out, Timon soon finds her influence and friends have also gone. Left alone, she flees Athens to take refuge in the woods, cursing the city she once loved. Shakespeare’s tale of wealth and greed is reimagined in this Royal Shakespeare Company production starring the Olivier Award-winning Kathryn Hunter as Timon. Captured live in Stratford-upon-Avon in 2018, Simon Godwin’s dark satire charts Timon’s descent from opulence to poverty, magnified by Soutra Gilmour’s lavish set and costume design.  Running time is approximately 128 minutes. The library “Armchair Traveler Book Group” will head to Panama in January with a discussion of The Great Divide by Cristina Henríquez. This novel centers on the time period during the building of the Panama Canal and sheds light on the people who lived, loved, and labored there. There is much that has been written about the engineering feat of the construction of the Panama Canal, but in order to truly understand a sense of the place, it is important to think about the lives of those who were affected by this monumental undertaking. Searing and empathetic, The Great Divide explores the intersecting lives of activists, fishmongers, laborers, journalists, neighbors, doctors, and soothsayers—those rarely acknowledged by history even as they carved out its course. The discussion will take place on Saturday, January 18, at 3 p.m. at the library. Copies of the book are available for checkout at the library, and all are welcome to attend.