Fri 7/20-Sun 8/5 @ 7PM
The Cleveland Shakespeare Festival has been offering audience-friendly edits of Shakespeare’s classic plays at various outdoor locations around the area for free for 20 years.
Its second production of the 2018 is more familiar than its first (Troilus and Cressida). Twelfth Night, adapted and directed by a key player in the local theater scene, Anne McEvoy, is one of Shakespeare’s oft-performed comedies. It features many of his signature elements including women masquerading as men, mistaken identities and multiple lovers who all get properly sorted out at the end.
It opens Fri 7/19 at Coventry Village’s PEACE park, followed by a performance Sat 7/21 at Bay Village’s Cahoon Park and Sun 7/22 at Grove Amphitheater in Mayfield Village. More performances take place from Mentor to Lakewood to Bedford over the following two weekends, concluding with a performance at Tremont’s Arts in August in Lincoln Park on Sun 8/5. All performances are at 7pm and conclude by dark. Bring a blanket or low-slung chair and a picnic if you choose.