Cambridge Shakespeare Festival

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Cambridge Shakespeare Festival is a festival of the plays of William Shakespeare held annually in Cambridge, England. The festival was founded in 1987.

The productions are performed in full period costume with live Elizabethan music. The festival attracts upwards of 25,000 visitors[1] for the productions which take place over a period of eight weeks in July and August. Each performance is held outside in the private gardens of the colleges of the University of Cambridge, including Kings College Gardens, Robinson College Gardens, Girton College Gardens, St John's College Gardens, Trinity College Gardens, and Downing College Gardens.

2011 performances included A Midsummer Night's Dream, Antony and Cleopatra, The Winter's Tale, The Comedy of Errors, Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, All's Well That Ends Well and Romeo and Juliet.[2]

References

  1. ↑ About Cambridge Shakespeare Festival.
  2. ↑ "Programme & Booking". Cambridge Shakespeare Festival 2011. Cambridge Shakespeare Festival. Retrieved 16 April 2012. 

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