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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:13.0pt'>Ohio Shakespeare Festival begins 2013 Summer Season with <i>The Comedy of Errors<o:p></o:p></i></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.” <i>(Cleveland Scene Magazine)<o:p></o:p></i></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><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Ohio Shakespeare Festival, performing for the twelfth summer at beautiful Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens in Akron, will present William Shakespeare’s farcical comedy about two sets of identical twins, <i>The Comedy of Errors</i>, followed by Shakespeare's rarely produced "romance," the semi-historical fairy-tale, <i>Cymbeline</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Comedy of Errors</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> will preview on July 4, open July 5 and run through July 21. <i>Cymbeline</i> will preview on August 1, open August 2, and perform through August 18. 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, including fine wines poured by the glass, and microbrew, imported and domestic beers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Comedy of Errors</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> will feature favorite OSF Company members Lara Knox and Bernard Bygott (Titania and Oberon from last year's <i>A Midsummer Night's Dream</i>) as Adriana and Antipholus. Benjamin Fortin (last summer's Thisbe) will play the comic servant, Dromio. Also returning to the company will be Joe Pine, Tess Burgler, Alfred Anderson, Henry C. Bishop, Mark Stoffer, Kyra Kelley, Daniel Rylander, Jeremy Jenkins and Karen L. Wood, all appearing as various quacks, conjurers, merchants, courtesans, maidens and nuns. <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 in the center, closest to the stage), or $25 for festival (open) seating. Student tickets are $15, and further discounts on adult tickets are available for OSF, WKSU, 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 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'>“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:12.0pt'><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>