Cape Cod Museum of Natural History Co-hosts Hit and Run History’s Mobile Pop-Up Drive-In Stephano: The True Story of Shakespeare’s Shipwreck

Join two-time Emmy-nominated producer, Andrew Giles Buckley, for the latest historical travel documentary from Hit and Run History premiered on their new 9’x16’ outdoor screen complete with audio broadcast directly to the audience’s car radios.
 
The 90-minute film follows the story of Stephen Hopkins, the only Mayflower passenger who had been to North America previously aboard a Jamestown-bound ship that wrecked in Bermuda, inspiring Shakespeare’s final play, The Tempest. Shot on location, the intrepid Hit and Run History crew retraces Hopkin’s life crisscrossing the Atlantic.
 
Andrew Giles Buckley, a Hopkins descendant, grew up hearing stories that New Plymouth’s iconoclast tavern keeper may have been the model for The Tempest’s drunken and mutinous Stephano. In their Gumshoe Historian style, Buckley and the crew of Hit and Run History, seek out the reality of a man who was everywhere at the founding of America.
 
This program is supported in part by grants from the Dennis Arts & Culture Council and the Brewster Culture Council, local agencies supported by the Mass Cultural Council.