[NEohioPAL] "Taming of the Shrew" at Ohio Shakespeare Festival

[Nancy Cates]

Ohio Shakespeare Festival

507 E. Crain Avenue

Kent, OH 44240

330-673-8761 box office

 <http://www.ohioshakespeare.com> www.ohioshakespeare.com

 

For Immediate Release

 

Ohio Shakespeare Festival Prepares to Tame a Shrew

 

 

Ohio Shakespeare Festival, performing for the ninth summer at beautiful Stan
Hywet Hall & Gardens in Akron, will present William Shakespeare's merry
comedy The Taming of the Shrew, beginning July 8, and running until July 24.

 

The Taming of the Shrew will feature favorite, long-time OSF Company members
Lara Knox and Andrew Cruse as Kate and Petruchio, Shakespeare's most popular
feuding lovers.  Lara and Andrew played Ophelia and Hamlet opposite one
another in the 2008 season, as well as husband and wife in The Comedy of
Errors.  Directed by Artistic Director Terry Burgler, Shrew features a
rarely-performed set of opening scenes, in which an inebriated beggar named
Christophero Sly is expelled from a tavern, and falls asleep in the street.
A Lord and his retinue happen upon him, and decide for their evening's
entertainment to dress him as a nobleman, and convince him he has forgotten
his life.  The actual Taming of the Shrew is Shakespeare's play within a
play, performed for the new nobleman's enjoyment.  Sly will be played by new
Company member Geoffrey Darling.  Others in the cast include Timothy
Champion, Tess Burgler, Tom Stephan, Henry Bishop and Brian McNally.

 

The Taming of the Shrew will preview on July 8, with special $12 pricing for
all seats (festival seating.)  Regular performances begin Friday, July 9 and
run through Saturday, July 24.  Performances are Thursday, Friday, Saturday
and Sunday nights at 8pm, with a Greenshow of songs, dances and skits
performed by the younger OSF Company members each evening at 7:30.  Stan
Hywet's grounds open at 6pm for picnicking in a wide variety of scenic
locations, and concessions are available.

 

Tickets are $30 for reserved seating (the first 100 seats closest to the
stage), or $25 for festival (open) seating.  Student tickets are $15, and
further discounts on adult tickets are available for OSF and Stan Hywet
Members.  Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens is located at 714 N. Portage Path in
Akron.  Reservations may be made any time through OSF's web site at
<http://www.ohioshakespeare.com> www.ohioshakespeare.com, or by calling the
box office at (330) 673-8761 daily (except Mondays) between noon and 5pm.

 

 

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