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Verse and Vodka is doing A Midsummer Night’s Dream May 13, 14, 20, and 21.
Arlington Elks Club, 56 Pond Lane, Arlington, MA
House and bar open at 7pm. Play begins at 8pm.
$10 tickets are available online at Brown Paper Tickets or contact their box office.
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Youthquake Theater, the Boston-area youth theater company run entirely by
kids and teens, presents its 12th Shakespearean production. The Winter's
Tale will be performed Friday and Saturday, June 3-4 at 7:30 p.m. and
Sunday, June 5 at 2 p.m. at the Arlington Center for the Arts, 41 Foster
St., Arlington. Tickets are $5. For information call 781-648-5579 or visit
www.youthquaketheater.com
The Winter's Tale has been alternately classified as a comedy, a romance,
and a problem play. Indeed, there is a stark contrast between Sicilia,
presided over by the tormented, jealous Leontes, and Bohemia, a pastoral
land drenched with music, amiable shepherds, and young love.
The story begins with the jealous king Leontes, who imprisons his wife
Hermione and condemns their infant daughter to death. Unbeknownst to him,
his servant leaves the child in Bohemia, where she's named Perdita and taken
in by an old shepherd and his son. Fast forward to Perdita's adolescence,
and a young prince disguised as a peasant falls in love with her. In order
to escape Polixenes, the prince's angry father, the pair flee to Sicilia,
where the action comes full circle, much like the turning of the seasons the
play depicts.
Founded in June 2012, Youthquake Theater started with a random idea (let's
do "Hamlet" in the backyard!) and took off with a bang. Youthquake
productions are organized, directed, and acted in entirely by children and
teens. They focus on the works of William Shakespeare, and have presented
productions of "Hamlet," "The Tempest," "A Midsummer Night's Dream,"
"Macbeth," "Romeo and Juliet," "Two Gentlemen of Verona," "The Merchant of
Venice," "Much Ado About Nothing," "King Lear," and "Twelfth Night" at
venues including the Arlington Center for the Arts, the Somerville Community
Growing Center, Circle the Square in Medford, Monroe Saturday Nights in
Lexington, Revels Spring Sing, Belmont Manor, the Belmont Senior Center, and
Mystic Learning Center.
In 2015, Youthquake founder Abigail Dickson was invited to deliver a talk at
TEDx Beacon Street's Youth Day. Watch it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUaU9kdt9I8
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Edited to add:
ASP & BAA present Othello May 19-21 -- a student production of Othello, directed by ASP Lead Teaching Artist Magda Spasiano, at Boston Arts Academy.
Boston Arts Academy (BAA) is located at 174 Ipswich St., Boston, and the performances will be held in the school’s black box theater on:
For tickets and info email Lindsay (at) actorsshakespeareproject.org
Arlington Elks Club, 56 Pond Lane, Arlington, MA
House and bar open at 7pm. Play begins at 8pm.
$10 tickets are available online at Brown Paper Tickets or contact their box office.
***
Youthquake Theater, the Boston-area youth theater company run entirely by
kids and teens, presents its 12th Shakespearean production. The Winter's
Tale will be performed Friday and Saturday, June 3-4 at 7:30 p.m. and
Sunday, June 5 at 2 p.m. at the Arlington Center for the Arts, 41 Foster
St., Arlington. Tickets are $5. For information call 781-648-5579 or visit
www.youthquaketheater.com
The Winter's Tale has been alternately classified as a comedy, a romance,
and a problem play. Indeed, there is a stark contrast between Sicilia,
presided over by the tormented, jealous Leontes, and Bohemia, a pastoral
land drenched with music, amiable shepherds, and young love.
The story begins with the jealous king Leontes, who imprisons his wife
Hermione and condemns their infant daughter to death. Unbeknownst to him,
his servant leaves the child in Bohemia, where she's named Perdita and taken
in by an old shepherd and his son. Fast forward to Perdita's adolescence,
and a young prince disguised as a peasant falls in love with her. In order
to escape Polixenes, the prince's angry father, the pair flee to Sicilia,
where the action comes full circle, much like the turning of the seasons the
play depicts.
Founded in June 2012, Youthquake Theater started with a random idea (let's
do "Hamlet" in the backyard!) and took off with a bang. Youthquake
productions are organized, directed, and acted in entirely by children and
teens. They focus on the works of William Shakespeare, and have presented
productions of "Hamlet," "The Tempest," "A Midsummer Night's Dream,"
"Macbeth," "Romeo and Juliet," "Two Gentlemen of Verona," "The Merchant of
Venice," "Much Ado About Nothing," "King Lear," and "Twelfth Night" at
venues including the Arlington Center for the Arts, the Somerville Community
Growing Center, Circle the Square in Medford, Monroe Saturday Nights in
Lexington, Revels Spring Sing, Belmont Manor, the Belmont Senior Center, and
Mystic Learning Center.
In 2015, Youthquake founder Abigail Dickson was invited to deliver a talk at
TEDx Beacon Street's Youth Day. Watch it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUaU9kdt9I8
***
Edited to add:
ASP & BAA present Othello May 19-21 -- a student production of Othello, directed by ASP Lead Teaching Artist Magda Spasiano, at Boston Arts Academy.
Boston Arts Academy (BAA) is located at 174 Ipswich St., Boston, and the performances will be held in the school’s black box theater on:
- Thursday, May 19 at 7pm
- Friday, May 20 at 3pm and 7:30pm
- Saturday, May 21 at 7pm
For tickets and info email Lindsay (at) actorsshakespeareproject.org