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The Best Way To Watch This Shakespeare Play Is From A Kayak

In early September, a group of kayaks and boats will gather in Sausalito to watch a unique performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

The play has been shortened to an hour to accommodate the unusual seating arrangements; creators figured that watching a long show from a kayak might deter some guests. Boats are welcome, although a kayak will provide the best view of the play. Shakespeare on the Water is partnering with Seatrek, a kayak rental service, for the performances, and if you mention the play, a discount will be applied on your rental.

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The Phelps Mansion Museum performs ‘Romeo and Juliet’

For those who attended Director Chris Nickerson’s, ’90, rendition of “Romeo and Juliet” at the Phelps Mansion Museum, they were in for an in

“Being in the mansion and moving room to room has made it easier to live in Juliet’s circumstances,” Whistle said. “With this being an immersive experience, I get to bring the audience in on something so intimate and vulnerable. They will get to share in my grief, joy, anger, love and everything in between.”

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Curtain Call: Oregon Shakespeare Festival's new artistic director anticipates a theatrical resurgence - Ashland News - Community-Supported,

OSF Artistic Director Tim Bond: “I’m looking forward to having our spaces come to life within the next couple of months.... I’m ready for th

OSF’s new artistic director became a theater kid in the fourth grade. It was the spring of 1968 when Bond discovered the transformative power of theater. He was playing Marc Antony in an abridged version of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar.”

That epiphany 55 years ago in an elementary school cafeteria occurred in the play shortly after Caesar’s assassination. Bond strode onto the stage and uttered Antony’s famous line, “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.”

“I recall that a hush came over the audience,” Bond said. “It seemed that everyone leaned in a bit to listen more closely. I suddenly felt the power of oratory, of history, of political theater.”