The Old Globe 's 2011 Shakespeare Festival will include Peter Shaffer 's AMADEUS as well as Shakespeare's THE TEMPEST and MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. The festival will take place at the outdoor Lowell Davies Festival Theatre in San Diego. On their first day of rehearsal, April 19, the cast and creative team of the festival created a video to introduce themselves.
Much Ado About Nothing runs May 29-Sept. 24, with an opening night set for June 29. The Tempest runs June 5-Sept. 25 and opens night is June 19. Amadeus runs June 12-Sept. 22 with an opening night of June 24.
Miles Anderson will play Prospero in The Tempest and
Antonio Salieri in Amadeus, with
Jay Whittaker playing Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Amadeus and Don John in Much Ado About Nothing.
Jonno Roberts will play Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing and Caliban in The Tempest and Georgia Hatzis will play Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing and Venticella in Amadeus.
The repertory company also features
Michael Stewart Allen,
John Cariani ,
Donald Carrier ,
Anthony Cochrane ,
Winslow Corbett , Kevin Alan Daniels, Globe associate artist
Charles Janasz ,
Jason Ma ddy and
Adrian Sparks , as well as
The Old Globe /University of San Diego Graduate Theatre Program students
Shirine Babb ,
Adam Daveline , Grayson DeJesus,
Ben Diskant ,
Christian Durso ,
Andrew Hutcheson , Rachael Jenison, Jesse Jensen,
Allison Spratt Pearce, Deborah Radloff,
Ryman Sneed and Jonathan Spivey.
To watch the company's video, click below.
