Photo Flash: Hip To Hip Theatre Company Enters Final Week Of 2018 Season
By: Julie Musbach Aug. 22, 2018
Hip to Hip Theatre Company will finish it's 2018 tour with performances at parks in Brooklyn (Bushwick Inlet Parks), Queens (Cunningham Park), and Southampton (Agawam Park).
All performances of King Lear and All's Well That Ends Well are open to the public. Audience members are encouraged to bring a blanket or low chair, picnic fare and enjoy a Shakespeare play in the open air. Hip to Hip's popular children's workshop "Kids & the Classics," will be offered thirty minutes before each performance.
Remaining performance schedule
Wednesday, August 22 @ 7:30 pm - King Lear
BROOKLYN Bushwick Inlet Parks (50 Kent Avenue)
Thursday, August 23 @ 8:00 pm - All's Well That Ends Well
QUEENS Cunningham Park (Union Tpk & 196th Street)
Friday, August 24 @ 7:30 pm - King Lear
SOUTHAMPTON Agawam Park (25 Pond Lane)
Saturday, August 25 @ 7:30 pm All's Well That Ends Well
SOUTHAMPTON Agawam Park (25 Pond Lane)
Sunday, August 26 - Rain Date
King Lear is directed by Artistic Director Jason Marr and All's Well That Ends Well is directed by company member Owen Thompson.
The cast is led by Joel Leffert's who has performed on Broadway in the World Premiere of Tennesee Williams' Not About Nightingales (directed by Trevor Nunn, also at London's Royal National Theatre) and standing by for Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen in Waiting for Godot and No Man's Land at the Cort Theatre. King Lear and All's Well That Ends Well features the talents of Natalia Cuevas, Kathleen Denecke, Sofia Dobrushin, Taylor Harris-Butler, Maddie Eisler, Brian Demar Jones, Kurt Kingsley, Tristan Land, Joy Marr, Sabrina Marr, Josh Miccio, Nancy Nichols, Elisabeth S. Rodgers, Akoni Steinmann, Ibrahim Traore, and Colin Wulff.
The design and production team includes Robert Dutiel (Scenic Design), Sarah Constable (King Lear Costume Design), Nancy Nichols (All's Well That Ends Well Costume Design), Adriana Atler (Resident Dramaturg & Assistant Director), and Emily Huminski (Production Assistant & Teaching Artist).
All performances are free to the public and will feature an interactive kids workshop 30 minutes before showtime. Kids & the Classics is designed for ages 4 to 12 and gives children a chance to interact with the text by previewing the characters, situations, and creating links between the text and their own lives through theatre games and reading of text.
No tickets are necessary. Performances run 95 minutes.
King Lear
The aging King Lear decides to divide his kingdom among his three daughters based on their love for him. Misunderstanding his youngest daughter's refusal to flatter him, he disowns her in favor of her ruthless, manipulative sisters...who promptly strip him of power, wealth, and sanity. Shakespeare's spectacular tragedy pits good against evil as the exiled princess returns to claim the throne.
All's Well That Ends Well
Having restored the King's health with a miraculous potion, Helena requests Count Bertram's hand in marriage in return. But when the arrogant Bertram refuses to marry beneath his class and flees from both King and bride to the nearest war, Shakespeare's courageous heroine must stop at nothing to bring him home. Meanwhile, Bertram's friends hilariously unmask the swashbuckling braggart Parolles.
About Hip to Hip Theatre Company
Hip to Hip is dedicated to stimulating and developing interest in the theatre arts in underserved communities by providing free, family-friendly, professional productions of popular classics, and free theatre workshops for children, in public spaces.
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