Dost Thou Not Suspect My Place? (A revised Much Ado schedule)

The Production and Touring Schedule for Much Ado About Nothing has changed!  Here's the new line-up:

June 6-9 and 12-16 – Lincoln Community Foundation Garden (near 15^th and N)

June 20 – Henry Park (S. 44^th and Prescott)

June 21 – Havelock Park (N. 64^th and Ballard)

June 22 – Densmore Park (6761 S. 14^th)

June 23 – Irvingdale Park (S. 20^th and Van Dorn)

June 27 – Wyuka Pond (36^th and O)

June 28 – Wyuka Pond (36^th and O)

June 29 – Belmont Park (N. 12^th and Judson)

June 30 – Bethany Park (N. 65^th and Vine)

Stay tuned for more details -- and see you next month!

Support the Flatwater Shakespeare Company on Give to Lincoln Day!

Your gift to the Flatwater Shakespeare Company supports not only our mainstage shows – including Much Ado About Nothing FREE this summer – but also our Youth productions. Here's a testimonial from one of our past participants:

“The program provides an introduction to acting for Shakespeare’s plays. The director and a dramaturg worked with us on understanding the importance of differences between verse and prose, the structure of iambic pentameter, and the meaning behind the Bard’s words . . . I continued to participate in the youth productions each summer through my junior year of high school. I became more and more comfortable with the plays and the language. I gained a foundation to build on that also helped me to excel in Shakespearean English classes in high school.

Eventually, Shakespeare became not just something I was comfortable with but something I loved. I admire how Flatwater Youth aims to instill passion for Shakespeare in the youth theater community of Lincoln.” 

 

Flatwater Youth Shakespeare continues this fun and important work in collaboration with Nebraska Youth Theatre at The Haymarket Theatre. Your contribution helps more than you know!

On May 16, the community again comes together for 24 hours of giving from 12:00am to 11:59pm. Gifts can be made online and will also be accepted in person during regular business hours at the Lincoln Community Foundation, 215 Centennial Mall South.

All donations on Give to Lincoln Day will be matched with a proportional share of a $200,000 challenge match pool of funds. The challenge fund is provided by the Lincoln Community Foundation and its partnering sponsors. In addition, the top three organizations that have the greatest number of donors making gifts on May 16 will receive bonus grants of $2,500, $1,500 and $1,000 respectively.

Just follow this link:

http://givetolincoln.razoo.com/story/Flatwater-Shakespeare-Company

For more information, visit the Lincoln Community Foundation website: http://www.lcf.org/ and click on the Give to Lincoln Day graphic.

Bob Hall featured on NET Television's "Nebraska Stories"

Tune in to "Nebraska Stories" on NET Television this Sunday night at 9 p.m. -- one of the features is a profile of Flatwater Shakespeare's own Bob Hall. See how Bob puts the Art in Artistic Director!

From the NET website: "From Batman to Shakespeare, it's about storytelling for Bob Hall."

Produced by Gavin Felix, this portrait includes Bob's time as a UNL theater student, his work in theater in New York, his contributions to comics and graphic novels, and his experiences in guiding first the Nebraska Repertory Theater and then the Flatwater Shakespeare Company.
 
(Photo Credit: John Nollendorfs)

What Fire Is in Mine Ears?

The CAST LIST 

for Flatwater Shakespeare Company's

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING 

Coming to several outdoor venues 

in Lincoln this June!

Benedick -- Brad Boesen

Beatrice -- Sasha Dobson

Claudio -- Alexander Jeffrey

Hero -- Emma Gruhl

Don Pedro -- Richard Eiselhoffel

Leonato -- Ron Silver

Antonio -- Paul Pearson

Don John -- Tyler Hale

Dogberry -- Tom Crew

Borachio -- Cale Yates

Balthasar -- Erik Gosnell

Conrad -- Christian Novotny

Margaret -- Karen F. Wills

Ursula -- Margery Dunkle

Friar Francis/Sexton -- Rachel Brown

Verges -- Margy Ryan

Messenger/1st Watchman -- Ian McKercher

Second Watchman -- Ethan Ness

Boy -- Eli Brown

What Went On at Flatwater Shakespeare's Ides of March Gala!

Sweet Will's sonnets and songs performed by Tupelo Springfield and Vince Learned

In response, members of The Company shaking what they got

A preview of Andrew Fuller's video documentary of Flatwater Shakespeare's 2012 summer tour of Twelfth Night

Brad Boesen, with Jacques' “Seven Ages of Man” speech from As You Like It

Phil Heckman and Brad exhorting all to Brush Up Their Shakespeare

Pippa White's rap/reel/jig about Shakespeare's impact on the English Language

Darin Hemmer vs. Vince in the duel from Cyrano de Bergerac

The Nebraska Girls Shakespeare Company's tribute to W. S.

Maya Naff singing about Romeo, Juliet, and Hamlet (not all in the same song)

Amy Jirsa and Sean Schmeits, with the wooing of Princess Katherine from Henry V

Bret Olsen singing “Take, O Take Those Lips Away” (from Measure for Measure)

Summer Widhalm Lukasiewicz and Matt Lukasiewicz, with the wooing of Lady Anne from Richard III

Stephen A. Gaines, with Prospero's “Our revels now are ended” speech from The Tempest

The Entire Company, with Shakespeare's Insults, Shakespeare's Love Talk, and Feste's final song from Twelfth Night

Thanks to all who participated, all who organized (especially Paula Ray, Bob Hall, and Deb Waechter), all who attended, and all who support Flatwater Shakespeare's free performances in Lincoln's parks!

Visit our Facebook page for more photos!

(Photo Credit: John Nollendorfs)

Tupelo Springfield Joins the Festivities

It's official!  Tupelo Springfield, the house band for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of English will join forces with Vince Learned in supplying music for Flatwater Shakespeare's Ides of March Gala on March 13.

Visit the Facebook events page here --

https://www.facebook.com/events/140480172780827/

Listen to some of Shakespeare's sonnets as performed by Sweet Will and the Saucy Jacks here --

sweetwill.bandcamp.com

and Sonnet 138 as performed by Tupelo Springfield here --

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izq6UxDs92I

Don't Beware the Ides of March!

Be There (for) the Ides of March!

Bob Hall on what Free Shakespeare means!

"But why free?

"To ensure that the greatest, most moving, most telling drama ever created is available to everyone, in all walks of life and in all sorts of places."

Read the rest of Bob's essay in the February 2013 issue of Prairie Fire Newspaper:

http://www.prairiefirenewspaper.com/2013/02/free-shakespeare

Photo: Eric Ojeda as Nick Bottom argues with Robie Hayek as Peter Quince in Flatwater Shakespeare Company's 2011 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, staged free of charge in the courtyard of First Plymouth Church, Lincoln, NE.  Photo Credit: Bob Hall.