This Sunday: Shakespeare in the Park
Posted By Jeremy Hatch On September 12, 2008 @ 3:13 pm In Books, Entertainment, Marina, Music & Theater | Comments Disabled
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In case Opera in the Park last Sunday [2] didn’t satisfy your hankering for high culture in the great outdoors, this Sunday features Shakespeare in the Park [3]. The price is free, the play is the little-produced Pericles, Prince of Tyre [4], and it will take place in the Presidio [5], at the Main Post Parade Ground Lawn. (Man, that’s about all the alliteration I can handle.) Apart from its low cost, outdoor pretentiousness has one huge advantage over the indoor variety: a picnic lunch with several friends and almost as many bottles of wine. (If that’s your style. Tea is awesome too [6].) Pericles is not a well-known play, but I remember enjoying the Shakespeare Santa Cruz [7] production back in — gulp — 1996 [8]. Oy vey.
Anyway, the show starts at 2:30, but you’ll probably want to get there early to lay your blanket out in a good spot. Dress in layers — but I don’t have to tell you that.
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[2] Opera in the Park last Sunday: http://sfopera.com/p/?mID=110&edID=290&eventtypeid=
[3] Shakespeare in the Park: http://www.sfshakes.org/park/index.html
[4] Pericles, Prince of Tyre: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pericles,_Prince_of_Tyre
[5] Presidio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Presidio
[6] Tea is awesome too: http://sf.metblogs.com/?p=4327
[7] Shakespeare Santa Cruz: http://www.shakespearesantacruz.org/
[8] 1996: http://www.shakespearesantacruz.org/about/archives.php#1995
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