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Dateline: 2nd June, 2004 Stars Line up for Open-Air Shakespeare tour
Wayne Sleep, Norman Pace and Carly Hillman will star in this year's open-air Shakespeare festival staged by the RJ Williamson Company. Sleep, who played Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream with the same company two years ago, will this summer play Feste in Twelfth Night. Pace, half of the comedy duo Hale and Pace, will be making his debut with RJ Williamson in the roles of Fabian in Twelfth Night and Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing. Hillman was cast in her first major acting role as Nicki di Marco in EastEnders and remained in Albert Square for three years. She will play Hero in Much Ado and the maid in Twelfth Night. For the first time actor-manager Robert Williamson will be taking part in only one of the plays, as Benedick in Much Ado which he directs with Frank Jarvis. He will also direct Twelfth Night with Joyce Branagh. The company, described as "Britain's leading open-air Shakespeare company", start off at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew. The shows run from June 11th to 20th. The third Brighton Shakespeare Festival takes place at Preston Manor Gardens from June 22nd to July 4th before the tour moves to Nottingham Castle, for the eighth year in succession, from July 6th to August 1st. The company returns to London for the Cannizaro Park Festival, Wimbledon from August 3rd to 7th and for the Holland Park Festival from August 10th to 15th. The tour ends with the tenth Leeds Shakespeare Festival at Kirkstall Abbey from August 17th to September 12th. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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