[Northkeep] Fwd: shakespere- entertainment

[Montega]

I had sent them an email a while back to see if we could do a demo but no
one contacted me back.

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Tina Michael <tinabetta at gmail.com> wrote:

> Saw this news article in the paper looks like something fun for us to do.
> Read on....
>
> Tina
>  *The idea behind the Shake Down in T-Town Festival was to focus as much on
> "T-Town" as it was to serve up some Shakespeare al fresco.*
>
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> The two-day event, Friday and Saturday, will include two performances of
> Shakespeare's comedy "As You Like It," staged by the festival's artistic
> director Jenny Guy. The show begins at 7:30 p.m. each evening at Tulsa's
> Centennial Park, Sixth Street and Peoria Avenue.
>
> The festival portion of the event will be from noon to 7 p.m. Saturday at
> the park, featuring performances by musical acts, theater companies and
> dance troupes, along with a number of booths selling craft items and other
> such goods.
>
> "Our goal was to offer as wide a variety of things as possible to showcase
> what we have here in Tulsa," said Brigid Kimery Vance, the festival's
> managing director. "We wanted there to be something for everyone."
>
> That was one reason why, Guy said, she chose "As You Like It" for this
> year's production, rather than one of the other comedies, tragedies or
> histories that Shakespeare wrote.
>
> "It's one of Shakespeare's most fun plays," she said. "It's one of the few
> in which nobody dies - or even pretends to die. There's a lot of physical
> as
> well as verbal comedy, with women pretending to be men, and men pretending
> to be someone else."
>
> The story - to put it in the simplest form - is about two brothers and a
> pair of female cousins, all of whom for various reasons find themselves in
> the Forest of Arden, where love ultimately conquers all except one
> melancholy fellow who muses about how "all the world's a stage, and all the
> men and women merely players."
>
> "We figure that the people who love Shakespeare would be interested in what
> we're doing," Vance said. "So we wanted the festival portion to be more
> inclusive and family-friendly so that it might appeal to people who aren't
> starting out as huge Shakespeare fans."
>
> Festival performances will include companies presenting excerpts of the
> shows that will be a part of the Tulsa PAC Trust's Summerstage, as well as
> contemporary dance, improvisational comedy and traditional English folk
> songs.
>
> Vendors will include the Gleeful Peacock, Bifftastica, SomerKnits,
> Crystal's
> Ball and Chain, Starflower Creations and Death of a Witch, which will have
> a
> special Shakespeare-themed print available.
>
> Jerry Weatherford will provide chair massages, and Trinity Episcopal and
> the
> Pearl District Association will operate booths, as well.
>  ------------------------------
>
>
> *SCHEDULE* *FRIDAY*
>
> *7:30 p.m. - *"As You Like It"
> *SATURDAY*
>
> *Noon - *Sarah & Russ Goss
>
> *12:45 p.m. - *Actors Company of Tulsa with "Attack of the Space Pandas"
>
> *1:30 p.m. - *Marilyn McCullough
>
> *2:15 p.m. - *Belly Dancing Troupe
>
> *3 p.m. - *Spontaniacs Improv
>
> *4:00 p.m. - *Portico Dans Theatre
>
> *4:25 p.m. - *IAMB
>
> *5 p.m. - *LOOK Musical Theatre
>
> *7:30 p.m. - *"As You Like It"
>
>
> *Original Print Headline: Festival serves up Shakespeare in the great
> outdoors*
>  ------------------------------
>
>
> *SHAKE DOWN IN T-TOWN FESTIVAL*
>
> *When:* Performance of “As You Like It,” 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday.
> Festival: Noon to 7 p.m. Saturday.
>
> *Where:* Centennial Park, Sixth Street and Peoria Avenue.
>
> *Admission:* Free.
>
> By JAMES D. WATTS JR. World Scene
> Writer<http://www.tulsaworld.com/site/authors.aspx?a=JAMES-D.-WATTS-JR.->
>
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> Tina Michael
>
> Intake reception
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> Any day above ground is a good day!
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Montega Blackdragon
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