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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Ohio Shakespeare Festival<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>507 E. Crain Avenue<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Kent, OH 44240<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>330-673-8761 box office<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='text-align:center'><a href="http://www.ohioshakespeare.com"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>www.ohioshakespeare.com</span></a><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'><o:p> </o:p></span></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'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Ohio Shakespeare Festival Opens 10<sup>th</sup> Anniversary Summer Season with <i>Love’s Labours Lost</i><o:p></o:p></span></b></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'>“If you have 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'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>--Christine Howey, <i>Rave and Pan<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Ohio Shakespeare Festival is performing for the tenth summer at beautiful Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens in Akron. Following upon the success of last season’s <i>The History of King Lear</i>, OSF will present two more of William Shakespeare’s more rarely-performed works, the merry comedy <i>Love’s Labours Lost</i>, along with <i>The Tragedy of King Richard III</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Love’s Labours Lost</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> previews tonight, July 7, open July 8 and run through July 23. Performances are Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights at 8pm, with a Greenshow of songs, dances and skits performed by the younger 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Love’s Labours Lost</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> is the tale of the King of Navarre and his men, who take an oath to abstain from the company of women in order to do nothing but study, fast, and become great scholars. Naturally, the beautiful Princess of France chooses this moment to visit, bringing her lovely courtiers, and all at the court break their oaths while trying to conceal their actions from one another. <i>Love’s Labours Lost</i> features favorite OSF Company members Lara Knox and Eric Lualdi as the Princess and King. In his years with OSF, Lualdi has appeared in many roles including Mercutio (<i>Romeo & Juliet</i>), Lysander (<i>Midsummer</i>), Trinculo (<i>Tempest</i>), and Edmund (<i>Lear.</i>) Ms. Knox portrayed last season’s Kate (<i>Shrew</i>) as well as, in previous seasons, Ophelia (<i>Hamlet</i>), Emilia (<i>Othello</i>), and Julia (<i>Two Gents</i>). Rounding out the company are King’s men Andrew Cruse, Joe Pine and Jeremy Jenkins, with the Princess’s ladies played by Tess Burgler, Holly Humes and Olivia Scicolone. Ernie Gonz</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>á</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>lez returns from Second City in Chicago to play Costard, the clown, and Artistic Director Terry Burgler is featured as “the buffoon” Don Adriano. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens is located at 714 N. Portage Path in Akron. 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. Reservations may be made any time through OSF’s web site at </span><a href="http://www.ohioshakespeare.com"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>www.ohioshakespeare.com</span></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>, or by calling the box office at (330) 673-8761 daily (except Mondays) from noon to 5pm.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>“B</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>urgler and his band of actors perform Shakespeare for the sheer joy of it. We audience members are fortunate to partake in such a gorgeous treat.” <i>(Akron Beacon Journal)<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>-- End --<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>