By Pepper Parr
August 3rd, 2016
BURLINGTON, ON
It isn’t summer if someone somewhere doesn’t do a Shakespeare play.
Debra Pickfield,of ThinkSpot fame, brought the Driftwood Theatre Company to Lowville for the third year and now the Tottering Biped Theatre is going to be at what Trevor Copp calls RBG’s stunning new outdoor Rock Gardens where they will be staging ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’… “unlike any you’ve seen before”.
Copp describes the production thusly: “Spurred on by their amorous and ambitious dreams, aspiring actors, lovers, and fairies meet in the woods of their sleeping minds in this highly physical adaptation of the classic play.”
Copp adds” “We’ve noticed the difficulty emerging artists have here in getting off the ground – and we lose artistic talent to Toronto/further cities every year as a result.
“So in casting this piece, we searched this area’s post-secondary theatre programs for the most talented senior students/recent graduates – and offered them paid theatre work; unprecedented in our area.
“In supporting this show, you’re teaching the next generation that being an artist doesn’t mean moving away.
It will be on at the Royal Botanical Gardens Rock Garden on:
August 10th @ 7pm
August 11th @ 7pm
August 12th @ 7pm
August 13th @ 7pm
August 14th @ 7pm
August 17th @ 7pm
August 18th @ 7pm
August 19th @ 7pm
August 20th @ 7pm
August 21st @ 7pm
Make a dinner reservation at the Rock Garden Cafe before enjoying Shakespeare by Nature’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
$35.00 per person
Seating promptly at 5pm
5:30PM to 7:00PM – Garden opens to those who have purchased tickets and made restaurant reservations
7:00PM to 9:00PM – Performance
Fees:
Non-member Adults: $25.00
Member Adults: $20.00
Non-member & Member children (ages 4-12): $20.00
Child under the age of 3: Free
Tickets available online at:
https://tickets.rbg.ca/PEO/daily_events_list.asp