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May
15
Thu
Mother Courage and Her Children, Stratford, Ontario
May 15 @ 5:00 am – Sep 21 @ 6:00 am

Stratford Festival

May 15 – Sept 21, 2014

By Bertolt Brecht

Translated by David Edgar
Directed by Martha Henry

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As the Thirty Years’ War swirls around her, Mother Courage scrapes together a living for herself and her three children by selling provisions to Protestant and Catholic combatants alike. But as she hauls her wagon across the battlefields of Europe, she discovers that the very chaos that sustains her will eventually cost her everything she holds most dear.

 

 

 

Fairyworlds!, Southwest Shakespeare Co
May 15 @ 7:00 am – Jun 1 @ 8:00 am

Southwest Shakespeare Company

May 15 – June 1, 2014

Desert Botanical Garden
1201 N. Galvin Parkway, Phoenix, AZ

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A new adaptation of Shakespeare’s immortal A Midsummer Night’s Dream in partnership with the Desert Botanical Garden.
This new vision will include bold visual elements, stunning costumes, lighting and stage magic designed to highlight the Garden. Two seating options are available: general admission and reserved bistro seating for four. If you would like reserved seating, let us seat you at a bistro table. Guests can purchase food & a full cash bar will be available.

May
16
Fri
A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Stratford, Ontario Shakespeare
May 16 @ 6:00 am – Oct 11 @ 7:00 am

A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Stratford, Ontario Shakespeare

by William Shakespeare
Directed by Chris Abraham

Festival Theatre
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About the Play

Threatened with death if she marries against her father’s wishes, Hermia elopes with her lover, Lysander, pursued by rival suitor Demetrius and his spurned admirer, Helena. In the enchanted woods, love’s lunacy reaches its giddiest heights – both for the bewildered couples and for an aspiring actor transformed into the unlikely consort of a fairy queen.

 

 

 

May
28
Wed
Hay Fever, Stratford, Ontario
May 28 @ 5:00 am – Oct 11 @ 6:00 am

Stratford Festival

May 28 – Oct 11, 2014

By Noël Coward

Directed by Alisa Palmer

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Stage star Judith Bliss, her novelist husband and their two grown children have each invited houseguests for the weekend. But as the Blisses indulge their artistic eccentricities in a hilarious whirlwind of flirtation and histrionics, the guests begin to wonder if they’ve landed in a madhouse – and if they can survive the weekend with their own wits intact.

 

 

 

Jun
3
Tue
Richard III – Oregon Shakespeare Fest, Ashland, OR
Jun 3 @ 6:30 pm – Oct 10 @ 7:30 pm
Richard III - Oregon Shakespeare Fest, Ashland, OR

Richard III

  • June 3 – October 10, 2014
  • Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland, OR – Allen Elizabethan Theatre
  • By William Shakespeare | Directed by James Bundy

Bad to the Bone

The king you love to hate returns. Richard III is the cunning royal reprobate so deformed in body and spirit that even his mother rues the day he was born. His path to England’s throne is murderous. He rules with a tyrant’s fist. He’s backstabbing and bloody. Yet he is so mesmerizing that we dare you to look away. Historically, Richard III may not have been such a villain, but where’s the fun in that? Shakespeare’s reworking of history is tragedy at its best—deep, rich and unapologetic.

Jun
5
Thu
The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Oregon Shakespeare Fest
Jun 5 @ 12:30 am – Oct 12 @ 1:30 am

Oregon Shakespeare Festival

June 5 – October 12, 2014

Directed by Sarah Rasmussen

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Is all really fair in love?

Young Proteus only has eyes for his hometown sweetheart, Julia. But on a trip to Milan, he gets one look at the lovely Silvia . . . and dumps Julia in a heartbeat. Two problems: Silvia is his best friend’s girl, and Julia won’t be dumped that easily. Stir in some bandits, an outraged father and a bad-mannered dog, and it’s friend versus friend in a wild tale of romantic rivals. This sumptuous production of Shakespeare’s early comedy—with twists that echo in his later plays—honors and mirrors Elizabethan tradition with an all-female cast.