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<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>“The Ohio Shakespeare Festival’s
performances at Stan Hywet have been a win-win experience for everyone.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='text-align:center'><i><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>David Ritchey, West Side Leader</span></i><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Ohio Shakespeare Festival</span></b><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>, performing for our 10th season at Stan Hywet Hall
& Gardens in Akron, will present:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Taming of the Shrew</span></i></b><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>, by William Shakespeare<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>July 8 – 24<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>King Lear</span></i></b><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>, by William Shakespeare<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>July 29 – August 15<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Tickets will go on sale May 1
through our website, <a href="http://www.ohioshakespeare.com">www.ohioshakespeare.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Auditions, both Equity and
non-Equity, will begin in mid March, and will be posted shortly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>From last season:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>“If you’ve ever wished that a Shakespeare
production could somehow be outfitted with annotations and footnotes to help
you understand what’s going on at every moment, there’s a much
easier (and more enjoyable) alternative. Just sit in the audience while the
Ohio Shakespeare Festival is performing.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='text-align:center'><i><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Christine Howey, Rave and Pan <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>“This is an evening well spent on the Stan Hywet
grounds. Of course, a bullfrog on his lily pad occasionally croaks to punctuate
the action on the stage. But I’m sure Verona and the Globe Theatre had
rude frogs, too.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='text-align:center'><i><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>David Ritchey, West Side Leader<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='text-align:center'><i><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>“<i>As You Like It</i> is the most recent
example of OSF magic... The outdoor lagoon setting on the Stan Hywet estate is
the perfect setting for love in the woods, making this <i>As You Like It</i> a
play you simply must experience."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='text-align:center'><i><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Christine Howey, Rave and Pan</span></i><i><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'> “Soft white light bathes the seemingly
lifeless body of Juliet and the despairing lover who clings to her in the
beautifully staged final scene of Ohio Shakespeare Festival's production of <i>Romeo
and Juliet</i>. This gorgeous aura of candlelight is both ethereal and
sepulchral in the tragedy's famed double suicide in the Capulet crypt. </span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Andrew Cruse and Tess Burgler are well-matched as
star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet in the outdoor performance at Stan Hywet
Hall & Gardens... Eric Lualdi is extraordinarily vibrant as the rowdy
jokester Mercutio, Romeo's friend, ever bawdy and relentlessly teasing.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='text-align:center'><i><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Kerry Clawson, Akron Beacon Journal<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>“The most unique part of the production is the
work of director/actor Terry Burgler, who takes the role of the Chorus. As the
Chorus, he plays several parts in the play but is most memorable in the large
supporting role of the Nurse... This is Burgler at his best and doing something
we’ve not seen him do on the stage since I’ve been writing about
his work.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='text-align:center'><i><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>David Ritchey, West Side Leader<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>“Employing a lot of eye contact with the
audience, an OSF trademark, the players coax even the most reluctant audience
members into the Shakespearian fold. And they are held there by the
company’s insistence on crafting even the smallest characters with
detail.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='text-align:center'><i><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Christine Howey, Rave and Pan<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='text-align:center'><i><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>“Our granddaughter thought this was better than
anything she saw in London during her whole spring semester there.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='text-align:center'><i><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Departing Patron <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='text-align:center'><i><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>“Performed in counterpoint to the rumbling
croaks from bullfrogs in the Stan Hywet lagoon, the performance bears all the
marks of a Terry Burgler-directed show: Clarity of character, precision of
speech, and an absolute commitment to making this musical language come alive
for everyone in the audience.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='text-align:center'><i><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Christine Howey, Rave and Pan</span></i><i><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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