Past Summer Shakespeare

My Voice is in My Sword
Shakespeare Looks at War
selected scenes of comedy and combat

Saturday, July 17 8pm
Conkling Hall
8 Methodist Hill Road
Rensselaerville, N.Y.

phone 518-797-3459 for ticket info

Wit&Will Presents
A Midsummer Night's Dream

2003
July 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26 at 8 PM (Thursday-Saturday)
July 20 and July 27 at 3 PM (Sunday)
Steamer No. 10 Theatre
500 Western Avenue
Albany, NY 12208

$14 Adults, $10 Students
(discounts for groups of 10 or more)

8 actors + 21 roles= 96 minutes of Bottom-slapping fun! The math is odd, but the humor adds up. Wit&Will Theatre takes the skills and training from their monthly improv shows and apply them to Shakespeare's most popular comedy. The magical tale of Nobles, Lovers, and Rude Mechanicals mixed and matched by love-addled Fairies gets a willful and witty production in Wit&Will's fifth summer Shakespeare show. This is definitely not your English teacher's Shakespeare.

2002
Wild&Whirling Words presents two July productions of Wm. Shakespeare's most merry comedy at the air conditioned Steamer No. 10 Theatre, 500 Western Avenue, Albany, NY 12208.

Thursday through Sunday, July 18-21 Wild&Whirling Words will present Twelfth Night, performed in Elizabethan costumes and with Elizabethan music.

Photo of Duke Orsino, Viola, Maria, Sir Toby and Malvolio
- characters in Twelfth Night

Directed by Steamer No. 10 Theatre resident director Mark Salocks, the cast also features members of Wit&Will Improv Troupe in different roles from "What You Will." Twelfth Night is the comic play that answers the question, "if music is the food of love," how can anyone have "excess of it, so that the appetite may sicken and so die"?

Thursday through Sunday, July 25-28 Wild&Whirling Words will present "What You Will," a modern adaptation of Twelfth Night, performed in contemporary costumes, with original contemporary music and multimedia images. Directed by Parker Cross, the cast features members of Wit&Will Improv Troupe in the comic play of how "some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em."