SHAKESPEARE GROUP TICKETS

19th Annual Women at Work Retreat is Proud to Sponsor Group Tickets for
2005 Shakespeare Santa Cruz 24th Season

Special Group Invitation for Staff & Faculty

August 5 at 8 p.m., Theater Arts Mainstage Engaged, by W. S. Gilbert. Directed by Paul Whitworth

When the Glasgow to London train is derailed on the Scottish borders (to capture the tourist trade), it contains an extraordinary gallery of magnetic characters caught between the competing attractions of sex and money. Satirizing the rampant materialism and hypocrisy that characterized Britain’s turn as the world’s only superpower in the 1870’s, Gilbert’s topsy-turvy world is the direct forbear of the comic lineage of Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, and Tom Stoppard.

August 6 at 8 p.m., Festival Glen, Twelfth Night, by William Shakespeare. Directed by P. J. Paparelli.

The quintessential Shakespearean comedy, Twelfth Night has it all: twins separated in a shipwreck, an impossible love-triangle, practical jokes involving yellow stockings and a heroine who suffers from a kind of Truth Tourette’s. Shipwrecked on the coast of Illyria, and fearing that her brother Sebastian has drowned, Viola must disguise herself as a man. She falls in love with the neighboring Duke Orsino – who loves the Lady Olivia – who loves the disguised Viola. What could possibly go wrong?

August 12 at 8 p.m., Festival Glen, The Winter's Tale, by William Shakespeare. Directed by Tim Ocel.

Leontes suspects that his pregnant wife, Hermione, is having an affair with his best friend, Polixenes of Bohemia. Leontes’ tyrannical jealousy destroys his family: his newborn baby is abandoned on a distant shore, his son and heir dies of grief, and then he learns that Hermione has died in prison. Until “what has been lost is found”, Leontes must do penance for his crimes of jealousy. Meanwhile far, far away, in the spring-time, two simple shepherds find a beautiful newborn baby girl… Time will reveal all in this most surprising and poetic of Shakespeare’s late plays.

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Playgoers are encouraged to bring blankets, cushions, or low-back and short legged beach chairs for use in the Festival Glen. A limited number of beach chairs are available for rent for $2 each. Green Chairs (reserved for donors and subscribers) unreserved seats will be made available @ $2 each. The Festival Glen opens one hour before the play begins. Bundle up for the evening performances. You are welcome to bring a picnic, or a food concession is also available. Please consult the Shakespeare brochure for "Patrons with Special Needs" or call (831) 459-2159.

PICK UP TICKETS @ CENTRAL PURCHASING, Tackhouse AFTER 8 a.m. August 4.
Contact: Diana Sue Miller at (831) 459-2882
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