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Home  Calendar 2008 Shakespeare on the Green Season
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Much Ado About Nothing
June 19-22, July 2 & 5, 2008
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King Lear
June 26-29, July 3 & 6, 2008 |
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“Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.”
-Act V, scene 2
As Beatrice and Benedick – old adversaries
in the battle of the sexes – wage their “merry war” of witty insults,
Benedick’s friend Claudio is deceived
into thinking his beloved, Hero, has betrayed him.
Potential tragedy yields to high comedy, however,
as the lexically challenged Constable Dogberry stumbles
upon the truth. |
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“Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.”
-Act III, scene 4
Dividing his kingdom among three daughters, an aging
monarch makes a catastrophic error of judgment that
plunges him and those around him into a terrible abyss of suffering.
This heartrending drama of madness, loss and reconciliation
is widely considered to be Shakespeare's greatest tragedy –
perhaps even the greatest play ever written.
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Before the performances, join us at 6:30 pm for our Preshow Seminars where you can meet and speak with the artists and scholars who work together to create our summer Shakespeare productions. Learn more about Shakespeare and the world of his plays, but also about our unique, original productions.
This program is funded in part by the Nebraska Humanities Council and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment. The views expressed in this program do not necessarily reflect the views of the Nebraska Humanities Council or the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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