[NEohioPAL] OSF opening "The Upstart Crow"

[Nancy Cates]

Ohio Shakespeare Festival

performing at

Coach House Theatre

732 W. Exchange St.

Akron, OH 44302

330-673-8761

 

NancyCates at ohioshakespeare.com

 

 

"The Upstart Crow" to Land at Coach House Theatre

 

The Ohio Shakespeare Festival, performing in cooperation with Coach House
Theatre in Akron, will be presenting the Ohio premiere of The Upstart Crow,
written by famed Shakespearean actor and director Vincent Dowling, on
January 9-18, 2009.  This special event will run Fridays and Saturdays at
8pm, and Sundays at 2:30pm.  Tickets are only $10 for theatre only, or $25
for dinner (or brunch) and theatre.  Dinner and brunch are next door at the
historic Akron Woman's City Club.

 

This season, Coach House Theatre and the Ohio Shakespeare Festival have
teamed up to perform a series of Shakespeare-related programming, beginning
last fall with the one-man tour de force Barrymore's Ghost, about the
legendary John Barrymore, acclaimed to be the finest Hamlet of his
generation.  

 

The famous insult "upstart crow" was given by a scholar and critic in 1592
to the young actor and playwright William Shakespeare.  In The Upstart Crow,
Shakespeare's daughter seeks out famed actor Richard Burbage at the Globe
Theatre in London to discover why her father's meteoric career took him so
completely out of her life.  She finds in Burbage a fiercely devoted friend,
a proud actor, a teacher and a guide, who leads her through the words and
characters of her father's plays in an effort to find the man.  By blending
dialog with some of Shakespeare's famous speeches, Dowling appeals to both
Shakespeare novices and devotees alike.  

 

The show features Ohio Shakespeare Festival's Artistic Director, Terry
Burgler, and Cleveland actress Tracee Patterson, who starred the Beck
Center's Song and Dance.  Burgler has been an actor, director, producer and
educator for over 30 years, and is one of the founders of OSF, which
performs summers at Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens.  He has, coincidentally,
both studied and performed at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.

 

For tickets call the Ohio Shakespeare Festival box office at 330-673-8761.
Further information is available at www.ohioshakespeare.com.

 

 

 

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