[NEohioPAL] "King Lear" opens at OSF

[Nancy Cates]

Ohio Shakespeare Festival Opens King Lear

 

 

Ohio Shakespeare Festival, performing for the ninth summer at beautiful Stan
Hywet Hall & Gardens in Akron, will present William Shakespeare's tragedy
King Lear, beginning July 29, and running until August 15.

 

King Lear will feature OSF Artistic Director Terry Burgler in the title
role, with his "sharper than a serpent's tooth" daughters played by company
members Dede Klein (Regan), Holly Humes (Goneril) and Tess Burgler
(Cordelia).  Also featured in the cast are OSF audience favorites Andrew
Cruse (Edgar) and Eric Lualdi (Edmund), along with Timothy Champion, Robert
Hawkes, Tom Stephan, Henry Bishop and David McNees.  Partially because of
the enormous size of the role of Lear himself, coupled with the character's
required advancing age, King Lear is not performed as frequently as many of
Shakespeare's other tragic masterpieces.  Murder, madness, pride, disloyalty
and greed all swirl within this royal family. 

 

King Lear will preview on July 29, with special $12 pricing that night only
for all seats (festival seating.)  Regular performances begin Friday, July
30 and run through Sunday August 15.  Performances are Thursday, Friday,
Saturday and Sunday nights at 8pm, with a Greenshow of songs, dances and a
Shakespeare parody 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.

 

 

Ohio Shakespeare Festival

507 E. Crain Avenue

Kent, OH 44240

330-673-8761 box office

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

 

 

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