CELEBRATE! One performance only!

Scenes and sonnets performed by cast members: Henry V Prologue, Ray Jenness; As You Like It , Act III, sc. 5, Ken Stoeffler, Jessie Sorrells, Olivia Gale; Richard II, Act III, sc. 2 (monologue) Nick Neyeloff; As You Like It, Act II, Sc. 7, "All the world's a stage ..." Matthew Recine; Hamlet Act III, sc. 1, Hamlet/Ophelia, Jonathan Arnold, Ashlee Holm; The Two Gentlemen of Verona Act IV, sc. 2, "Who is Silvia?" Olivia Gale; Hamlet Act III, sc. 3, Claudius' soliloquy, Joseph Stiliano; The Merchant of Venice Act III, sc. 1, Shylock, Matthew Recine; Richard III, Act I, sc. 1, soliloquy, Nick Neyeloff; Julius Caesar, Act III, sc. 2, Antony's funeral speech, Jessie Sorrells; The Taming of the Shrew, Act II, sc. 1, Kate and Petruchio, Ashlee Holm and Jonathan Arnold; King Lear, Act I sc. 2, Edmund's soliloquy Ken Stoeffler; Much Ado About Nothing, Act II, sc. 1 Benedick's soliloquy Matthew Recine; Twelfth Night, Act V "When that I was and a little tiny boy ...", Olivia Gale.

Sonnets: 29, 35, 66, 116, 130, 135, 140, 141.

 

At the Shakespeare Celebration, Ray Jenness, president of CAST presents this year's $500 scholarship award to Mia Formichella of Gloucester. The award is for Cape Ann high school seniors pursuing higher education in the performing arts.

 

Cape Ann Beacon 02/15/13







From Clare Higgins

Now is the winter of my disinterment

Made glorious news by common digger’s hand.

In a new world they have unearth’d my bones:

Where barded steeds once galloped off to war,

Now metal horses thunder o’er the roads,

And men have stationed them above my grave.

Five hundred summers I slept in the earth

Once grim-faced war robbed me of life betimes.

What good I did was with me deep interr’d;

My honor wounded by a playwright’s pen.

Though I’ll be buried as befits a king,

The scholars still debate my history.

And yet what secrets I would fain unlock,

To all the world’s ears, if my bones could talk.

By Clare Higgins



Mark Your Calendar

February 27, Opening Night: All Tickets $5!

Coming Next

"The Tragedy of Julius Caesar"

William Shakespeare's political drama of ambition, intrigue, betrayal, assasination and war. Joseph Stiliano directs this twenty-first century look at a story that, unfortunately, remains topical and relevant. Can society learn from its past, or is it doomed to endure the quest for power that tears at the fabric of humanity?

The players are: David Adams, Cassius; Jonathan Arnold, Mark Antony; David Cluett, Brutus; Stephanie Cochran, Decia; Richard Crowell, Flavius, Metellus; Timothy Edwards, Lucius; Ashlee Holm, Portia; Ray Jenness, Cicero, Artemidorous, Lepidus; Ian O'Connor, Marullus, Messala; Craig Owen, Julius Caesar; Dominic Parry, Publius, Pindarus; Timothy Edwards, Octavian; Matthew Recine, Ttinius; Jim Robinson, Trebonius, Lucilius; Jessie Sorrells, Calpurnia, Cinna the Poet; Ken Stoeffler, Casca, Claudius; Pauline Wright, Cinna.

February 27 - March 2 at 8 PM; March 3 at 3 PM

Gorton Theatre (home of the Gloucester Stage Company)

267 East Main Street, Gloucester

Tickets are $15, general admission; $10, students; $5, under 19.

Available at the door 45 minutes before performance time or reserve at cast2008@prodigy.net .