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Last Updated: Feb 5, 2010 - 12:28:12 PM |
Nassau, Bahamas - Shakespeare In Paradise is pleased to announce the first three productions for its second annual Theatre Festival, Opening October 1st and running through October 11th, 2010.
Our signature Shakespeare production this year is the comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It portrays the adventures of four young lovers and a group of amateur actors, their interactions with the local ruler, Theseus, the Queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta, and with the fairies who inhabit a moonlit forest. All of this of course will be imagined with a Bahamian touch. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of William Shakespeare’s most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world.
Our signature Bahamian production is Telcine Turner Rolle’s award winning play, Woman Take Two. Love and greed are two elemental passions Telcine deals with in this exciting three-act play. It tells the tale of a few people forging alliances for themselves – for love and/or money. Rolle writes with sensitivity and insights into her characters. Suspenseful and intriguing, Woman Take Two provides a glimpse into the darker side of the human character and is even more poignant with the recent events in Haiti. This is a work that thousands of Bahamian students, present and former, are familiar with and would have had their first introduction to in High School.
The third work we are announcing is a production of James Weldon Johnson’s God’s Trombones, which is also sometimes known by its full title, God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse. Written in 1927, this work is based on a book of poems by Johnson patterned after traditional African-American religious oratory. This production has delighted audiences in theaters, churches and other venues for over 80 years and never grows old. Our production will not only feature the junior choir from St. Francis Church, under the direction of Francis Richardson, but we will have a very talented group of actors preaching the sermons. We are presently working on having one or more of the sermons delivered, at each performance, by some very special guests. More on that will be announced later.
This is our first announcement concerning this year’s festival. You can expect to hear a lot more from us in the months to come. We expect to be announcing at least one more local work, a work from the Caribbean and a work from North America to round out the productions for this year’s festival. We will also be announcing audition dates for all of the shows being directed by Shakespeare In Paradise directors and we will let you know how you can become involved in the festival, either as a performer, a backstage worker, front of house or many of the other areas where volunteers would be needed throughout the festival.
You can find out more information, get in touch with us or keep up to date with what’s going on with the festival online at these various sites:
Shakespeare In Paradise Official Site: http://shakespeareinparadise.org/
Ringplay Productions Official Site: http://ringplay.com/
YouTube: ShakespeareParadise: www.youtube.com/user/ShakespeareParadise
Facebook: Bahamian-Shakespeare: www.facebook.com/people/Bahamian-Shakespeare/100000139484701
Facebook Page: Shakespeare In Paradise: http://www.facebook.com/pages/City-Of-Nassau-The-Bahamas/Shakespeare-in-Paradise/142746667904
MySpace: shakespeareinparadise: http://www.myspace.com/shakespeareinparadise
Twitter: shakesparadise: http://twitter.com/shakesparadise
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