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Shakespeare & Company opens its Founders' Theatre season with Shakespeare's early, and frequently controversial comedy, The Taming of the Shrew.
Directed by Daniela Varon, and featuring an 18-actor company including musicians, jugglers, and pre-show clowning, Shrew battles its way onto the stage through September 3.
As a companion to The Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare & Company 's FREE Outdoor Bankside Festival is performing The Tamer Tamed, c. 1611, written by one of Shakespeare's contemporaries, John Fletcher.
John Fletcher, playwright, was born in 1579 in Rye, Sussex, and died of the plague in 1625. His father was an ambitious and successful cleric who was chaplain at the execution of Mary Queen of Scots. By some accounts, Fletcher wrote this irreverent "sequel" to The Taming of the Shrew as a "calling card" to Shakespeare, and it appears to have worked. He went on to co-write with Shakespeare Henry VIII, Cardenio and The Two Noble Kinsmen in addition to nearly 50 plays he wrote on his own, and with another dramatist, Francis Beaumont. Fletcher suceeded Shakespeare as the chief dramatist for The King's Men, the leading acting company of London.
Although the performance is free, tickets are required. Seating is general admission, so arrive early to secure the best seats.
For more information, or to purchase/reserve tickets, please call the Shakespeare & Company box office at (413) 637-3353, or purchase tickets online anytime, visit our website (designed by Studio Two) at www.shakespeare.org.
[Note: I will be seeing both productions next weekend and hope to have a review on ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/syndicated.gif?v=92.1) riba_rambles next Monday or Tuesday. |
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Commonwealth Shakespeare's free Hamlet in the Boston Common starts next weekend and runs through August 7. |
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Directed by Christopher Scully
Saturdays & Sundays, July 9, 10, 16 & 17 at 2:00pm
Columbia Cultural Center
775 John Quincy Adams Road
Myles Standish Industrial Park, Taunton
FREE ADMISSION
For information call 508-823-9323 or visit the Industrial Theatre's website. |
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Billed as "One hundred years of comedy, tragedy and triumph in ninety minutes: from Richard II, King Henry IV, King Henry V, King Henry VI, and Hamlet" (my reaction is: what about Richard III?)
By Shakespeare East,
July 27 - 31st
The Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts | 527 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02116
Tickets: $25 |
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