JULIUS CAESAR, Shakespeare under the Stars youth program, EmilyAnn Theatre, Wimberley, August 1 - 10, 2013

 

Shakespeare under the Stars youth program 

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  Directed by Bridget Farias
Performances August 1-10, 8:15pm, nightly except Sunday
at the EmilyAnn Theatre and gardens, 
1101 FM 2325, Wimberley - click for map]


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Upcoming: Twelfth Night, EmilyAnn Theatre, Wimberley, July 25 - August 6

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Shakespeare Under the Stars

Twelfth Night

by William Shakespeare

directed by Bridget Farias

Nightly at 8:15 p.m. from July 25 to August 6 except for Sunday, July 31

Twins separated in a shipwreck, unrequited and unexpected love, mischevious plotting, cross gartered hilarity, pirate swashbuckling, unmatchable wit, all set in a VICTORIAN STEAMPUNK Illyria!! Come join the EmilyAnn Theatre as Shakespeare Under the Stars students once again create and produce one of William Shakespeare's masterpieces on our beautiful outdoor amphitheatre stage, July 25-August 6 (performances nightly at 8:15pm, no Sunday performance).

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Doubling Your Fun: Two Cats, Two Romeos and Two Juliets

With so many companies and productions busy in Austin and nearby, some duplications are inevitable. The familiar musicals, of course -- Annie seems to come around in some form about every four or five months. The huge and joyful production at the Georgetown Palace ran through the holiday season, Lee Colee's Broadway Bound boot camp in Wimberley did a fine short version, Tex-Arts has just done a junior production, and now SummerStock Austin has settled in -- "for the duration," as they used to say during World War II. Their Annie, free of charge to the public camping on the hillside in Zilker Park, runs almost a month and a half, until August 14.

For Christmastime 2008 one could attend no fewer than four productions of Christmas Belles. I took my spouse to the one in Wimberley and she thought I was nuts to insist on taking in two more. I passed up the version that played at the Harlequin Dinner Theatre in San Antonio.

But sometimes you'll have an unusual opportunity to see versions of a notable piece of theatre, opportunities to glimpse just how great the differences of interpretation and impact can be. Theatre is, after all, a live art. Though texts may be standard or closely aligned, the real life and blood of a piece comes in the staging. Austin, you now have the chance to examine Tennessee Williams and Shakespeare as examples of the powerful transformations of dramatic art.

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Auditions for Youth: Shakespeare Under The Stars, EmilyAnn Theatre, Wimberley, May 15

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Shakespeare Under the Stars, the only high school intensive Shakespeare program of its kind in the country, is holding auditions for this summer's play, Romeo and Juliet.

AUDITIONS ARE THIS UPCOMING SATURDAY, MAY 15 from 1 - 5 p.m. at the EmilyAnn Theatre in Wimberley. All candidatess must audition with a one two-minute memorized Shakespeare monologue.

The program will begin June 28 with a 3 day acting workshop with Clarence Gilyard (Officer Trebek from Walker Texas Ranger). The students assist in building their own sets and costumes during the day and rehearse in the evening for the play.

The usual 'Shakespeare Under the Stars' day is from 1 p.m. - 9 p.m. That schedule is consistent for four weeks, ending with two weeks of consecutive evening performances of the play. Please email bridget@emilyann.org for more information and to set up an audition time.

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