Shakespeare Santa Cruz

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Shakespeare Santa Cruz is a Shakespeare festival founded in 1981 and held annually at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Plays are held indoors at the drama department and outdoors in a redwood grove ("The Sinsheimer-Stanley Festival Glen"). The company's season runs from July to early September and usually features three plays presented in a repertory fashion (several of the actors appear in more than one play, alternating which play is performed from night to night). The festival seeks to avoid presenting "museum Shakespeare". To that end, the company's productions have included transplanted time periods, pop culture references, and non-traditional casting. Since its founding, the company's artistic directors have been Audrey Stanley, Michael Edwards, Danny Scheie (known for gender-bending casting), Risa Brainin, and Paul Whitworth. Since 1997, Shakespeare Santa Cruz has also presented an additional play in the winter holiday season, usually an original work based on a famous children's story. Notable actors who performed at the festival before they became famous include Patrick Stewart and Bryan Cranston.

In addition to the summer repetory season and the holiday show, Shakespeare Santa Cruz has two performance programs which seek to engage student actors with Shakespearean and other classical texts---the summer fringe show and the Shakes-to-Go program. The fringe show is an opportunity for the company's young acting interns to perform their own show in the Glen two nights each summer. The three productions thus far have been "Lysistratia," "The Antipodes," and "Fools in the Forest." Shakes-to-Go is an educational program which hires University of California Santa Cruz acting students to tour local schools in the spring with performances of hour-long versions of one of the plays that will be featured in the summer season.

[edit] Season History

  • 1981
    • The Taming of the Shrew
  • 1982
    • A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • 1983
    • Merry Wives of Windsor
    • Macbeth
  • 1984
    • King Henry IV, Part One
    • The Tempest
  • 1985
    • As You Like It
    • Hamlet
    • Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (by Tom Stoppard)
  • 1986
    • Twelfth Night
    • King Richard II
    • A Life in the Theatre (by David Mamet)
  • 1987
  • 1988
    • The Comedy of Errors
    • Julius Caesar
    • Anthony and Cleopatra
    • Titus Andronicus
  • 1989
  • 1990
  • 1991
  • 1992
    • The Taming of the Shrew
    • Macbeth
    • A Doll's House (by Henrik Ibsen)
  • 1993
  • 1994
    • The Merchant of Venice
    • Merry Wives of Windsor
    • The Rape of Tamar (by Tirso de Molina)
  • 1995
  • 1996
    • Twelfth Night
    • Pericles
    • Tartuffe (by Molière)
  • 1997
  • 1998
  • 1999
    • Romeo and Juliet
    • The Two Gentlemen of Verona
    • Arms and the Man (by George Bernard Shaw)
    • Cinderella (by Kate Hawley)
  • 2000
    • Cymbeline
    • Love's Labour Lost
    • Kean (by Jean-Paul Sartre)
    • Cinderella (by Kate Hawley)
  • 2001
    • A Midsummer Night's Dream
    • Macbeth
    • She Stoops to Conquer (by Oliver Goldsmith)
    • Gretel and Hansel (by Kate Hawley)
  • 2002
    • Coriolanus
    • Merry Wives of Windsor
    • The Sea Gull (by Anton Chekhov)
    • Gretel and Hansel (by Kate Hawley)
  • 2003
    • The Comedy of Errors
    • Hamlet
    • Private Lives (by Noel Coward)
    • Emperor's New Clothes (by Brad Caroll)
  • 2004
  • 2005
    • Twelfth Night
    • The Winter's Tale
    • Engaged (by W. S. Gilbert)
    • Cinderella (by Kate Hawley)
  • 2006 (announced)

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