Shakespeare and Stoppard
highlight Cleveland Shakespeare
Festival's Eleventh Season
The Cleveland Shakespeare Festival is
pleased to announce our eleventh season of bringing free,
outdoor theater to Northeast Ohio! Our Summer 2008 season will
feature, in repertory, Hamlet, by William Shakespeare
(directed by Dana Hart), and Rosencrantz
and Guildenstern Are Dead, by Tom Stoppard (directed by
John C. Davis.)
Mr. Davis will also be the fight
choreographer for both productions.
Each production will have its own opening
weekend, and then both shows will tour in repertory to three
traditional and two brand new venues in various communities
across Northeast Ohio over the next five weekends.
The season will run from June 20th through
August 3rd. Audition dates and a more detailed production
schedule are detailed below.
Presenting these two daring productions in
six different venues over seven weekends will make this our
biggest, boldest and most widely seen season yet! We are very
excited to make new friends, revisit old ones, and share the
magic of theater - both old and new - with everyone along the
way.
We hope you will join us!
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Seven
weeks of Shakespeare and
two new venues! |
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William Shakespeare's "Hamlet"
Directed By Dana
Hart
- June 20 - Cuyahoga Community
College - Western Campus, Parma, OH
- June 21 - Cuyahoga Community
College - Western Campus, Parma, OH
- July 5 - Falls River Square
Amphitheater, Cuyahoga Falls, OH
- July 12 - Penitentiary Glen Nature
Center, Kirtland, OH
- July 19 - Shaker Heights
Colonnade,
Shaker Heights, OH
- July 26 - Stocker Center for the
Arts, Elyria, OH
- August 2 - Tremont's Lincoln Park
Gazebo, Cleveland, OH
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Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz
& Guildenstern Are Dead"
Directed By John C.
Davis
- June 27 - Cuyahoga Community
College - Western Campus, Parma, OH
- June 28 - Cuyahoga Community
College - Western Campus, Parma, OH
- July 6 - Falls River Square
Amphitheater, Cuyahoga Falls, OH
- July 13 - Penitentiary Glen Nature
Center, Kirtland, OH
- July 20 - Shaker Heights
Colonnade,
Shaker Heights, OH
- July 27 - Stocker Center for the
Arts, Elyria, OH
- August 3 - Tremont's Lincoln Park
Gazebo, Cleveland, OH
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All performances
begin promptly at 7 PM.
Programs are edited to
run approximately one hour, forty-five minutes and are
performed without an intermission.
Although various
quantities of limited seating is available at some of the
venues - bringing a blanket, cushions, or lawn chairs is
strongly advised. Picnics are permitted but none of our
venues permit alcoholic beverages to be brought onto the
premises.
Alternate indoor
performance space is available for all performance dates EXCEPT*
Sat. 07/05 and Sat.
07/12. We make every attempt to avoid canceling
any performance, as rescheduling is impossible, but should
either of those two dates meet with seriously inclement
weather, possibility does exist that the safety of both
patrons and actors may require us to cancel prior to
starting or even mid performance should a light drizzle
become a downpour. Repeat after me; “It Will Not
Rain. It Will Not Rain. It Will Not...”
AUDITION INFORMATION
Open Auditions for both 2008 season
productions will be held at:
The Cleveland Play
House
in Rehearsal
Hall A
on Saturday, April 26th
from 3 PM to 7 PM and on Sunday, April 27th
from Noon to 4 PM. Call back appointments will be
scheduled for Monday, April 28th and Tuesday,
April 29th from 6 to 10 PM in rehearsal hall C.
Please bring a headshot and resume to the audition.
Auditioning parties should prepare two contrasting
monologues, one of which must be from the works of William
Shakespeare, and of lengths that permit both monologues to
be presented inside of four minutes. Eight to Sixteen bars
of music may also be presented within ONE additional
minute. Vocalists not accompanying themselves on an
instrument will be required to sing a cappella.
No recorded accompaniment will be
permitted. Unique instrumental performances are welcomed.
Appointments are not required for Open
Auditions.
E-mail questions to cleveshakes08info@yahoo.com
Volunteers Needed!
The Cleveland Shakespeare Festival is
preparing for its 11th season of free
Shakespeare under the stars!
We are searching for
enthusiastic volunteers in the areas of:
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Marketing
-
Advertising
-
Concession Sales
For more information, or
to sign up,
call 440.236.5355
or 216.469.0521
Remember, we can’t do
it without you!
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