Shakespeare by the Sea, Newfoundland
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The Shakespeare By The Sea Festival is a theater company in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, that specializes in the works of William Shakespeare.
The company was founded in 1993 by Aiden Flynn and Danielle Irvine and has been under the artistic direction of Jennifer Deon since 1995. The company's main event is an annual outdoor Shakespeare festival that runs throughout the months of July and August. Performance locations have ranged from the cliffs of Logy Bay and the courtyard of the Murray Premises to the bunkers of Signal Hill and the stones of Topsail Beach. The Festival's current primary venue is the Cabot 500 Theatre in Bowring Park, with alternate or secondary locations announced seasonally.
2008 marks the 15th anniversary of the company, featuring productions of Much Ado About Nothing, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Antony and Cleopatra, and a return of the double-bill of H. P. Lovecraft's The Rats in the Walls and Edgar Allan Poe's The Cask of Amontillado.
[edit] Past Productions
1993 The Tempest
1994 King Lear
1995 Twelfth Night
1996 Macbeth and Romeo & Juliet
1997 Macbeth, Hamlet, I Hate Hamlet and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
1998 A Midsummer Night's Dream
1999 Much Ado About Nothing and Richard III
2000 The Mousetrap, Julius Caesar (play), Love's Labour's Lost
2001 Dial M for Murder, Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merchant of Venice and A Streetcar Named Desire (play)
2002 The Tempest and Twelfth Night
2003 The Importance of Being Earnest, Othello, Romeo & Juliet, The Cask of Amontillado and The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged)
2004 As You Like It and The Winter's Tale
2005 Henry V (play)
2006 The Two Noble Kinsmen, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Dear Brutus
2007 Macbeth, The Comedy of Errors and The Rats in the Walls / The Cask of Amontillado
2008 Macbeth
