Bristol Shakespeare Festival 2012

Published: 21 June 2012
Reporter: David Chadderton

Lord Chamberlains MenThe Bristol Shakespeare Festival will bring a month of Shakespeare-inspired events to gardens, squares, pubs and zoos all over the city.

Offerings include Macbeth from the Lord Chamberlain's Men on a bowling green, Henry V from Illyria at Bristol Zoo and Much Ado About Nothing from Heartbreak Productions in the gardens of Ashton Court Estate, which will also host The Tempest and The Taming of the Shrew, both from GB Theatre. Oddsocks will present Julius Caesar at Berwick Lodge Hotel, Folksy Theatre will perform Much Ado About Nothing at Boiling Wells Amphitheatre and F.A.M.E will perform Measure for Measure at the Bierkeller Theatre.

There will be other Shakespeare-related events, such as a link with Bristol Pride with a reqorking of A Midsummer Night's Dream, a live art platform event at Colston Hall and an education and outreach project called inFUSION 2012, wgucg gives secondary school students the chance to create a short performance piece around a Shakespeare text of their own choice.

Artistic director Emma Henry said, "I am delighted by the range and quality of this year’s programme, and there is really something in it for everyone, whether you consider yourself a seasoned 'Shakespeare fan' or are coming to it for the first time.

"In an important year for the UK, with the Olympics taking place and the World Shakespeare Festival going on across the country, we wanted to be more ambitious than ever before. We wanted to bring local audiences a flavour of what is going on nationally through hosting quality touring theatre and by engaging with new audiences through our education and outreach projects."

For more information, see www.bristolshakespeare.org.uk.

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