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A new season of the Southern Shakespeare Company is underway<\/a>. January 2016 kicked off in January with the auditions for their new play. This is the second season for the company. April 2015 marked the return of the Southern Shakespeare Festival with a weekend of performances of \u201cA Midsummer Night’s Dream\u201d after a 15 year absence in Tallahassee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laura W. Johnson, Executive Director of the Southern Shakespeare Company was excited at the turnout for the 2015 festival, \u201cI think it surpassed our wildest expectations!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Between 6 and 8 thousand people attended last year’s three-day festival, which included the show itself along with the all day festival on Saturday, in spite of the weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was as if the clouds parted just for us. It threatened rain throughout the three days, but we never had a drop of rain for any of the performances or for the Festival itself. It was incredible,\u201d said Johnson. \u201cFamilies came out with picnic baskets and enjoyed that kind of atmosphere,\u201d she continued, \u201cIt was such a tremendous success. And like I said, it surpassed our wildest dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plenty of humor is planned for their second Shakespeare main stage play. This time, they’re taking on the Bard’s \u201cThe Comedy of Errors\u201d, a play about mistaken identity. Two sets of twins end up in the same town and it’s about how they get mixed up in each other’s lives \u2013 which keeps the audience as well as the characters on stage guessing who is who.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year’s \u201cA Midsummer Night’s Dream\u201d was set in the 1960s. This year, the clock is turned back another decade to the 1950s. \u201cThe Comedy of Errors\u201d will also have a carnival theme. Putting a fun twist on Shakespeare is becoming one of the hallmarks of the company. In 2015, they also did some special performances wrapping Shakespeare’s Elizabethan speech pattern with the well-known Star Wars saga\u2026 It was called \u201cBard Wars\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laura Johnson says \u201cThe idea is to make it fun, to make it accessible, to make it engaging. So finding concepts like that make it fun and engaging is really what we’re after. The themes themselves are timeless, so finding something that modern-day audiences can relate to is something that we’re trying to accomplish. We always say that Southern Shakespeare Company is not your grandmother’s Shakespeare.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company is already taking other steps to increase the fun. Instead of an all-day festival on Saturday, there will be pre-festivals from 4-7pm on Friday and Saturday leading into the production itself \u2013 and on Sunday, there will be another pre-festival show as well. They’ve done a lot to expand their education program by going into more schools last fall and there are plans to do that again this spring. As part of their education program there’s a group of talented kids called The Bardlings, who jumped right into Shakespeare and are doing a tremendous job. A traveling troop has also been added since last year. And this year, that troop is doing \u201cThe Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged\u201d \u2013 all 37 of William Shakepeare’s plays in a madcap 97-minute presentation in several venues: The Monticello Opera House, Goodwood Museum, and the McGuire Center at Westminster Oaks.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking at what is already planned, you might think the Southern Shakespeare Company can’t pack anything else into their schedule, but you’d be wrong. Also planned is a sonnet-writing contest, the return of \u201cSonnet Man\u201d, participation in the Word of South Festival, a wine festival fundraiser at the Edison Restaurant and more, including plans to add another full-length play this fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Southern Shakespeare Festival will have their Wine Festival Fundraiser on January 30, 2016th<\/sup> at the Edison in Cascades Park with exclusive wines, delectable food, and an evening of fun. For more information on how to get tickets or to find out more about their spring Shakespeare schedule, visit SouthernShakes.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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