More Free Hamlet - This Time at The Cloisters - Courtesy of Gorilla Rep
By Andy Propst on Jul 30, 2008 | In Tri-State, ATW News, ATW News
Gorilla Rep will return to free Shakespeare in the park this August, with Hamlet, to be performed on the lawn at The Cloisters, running August 7 through August 31.
The production, which was workshopped indoors last year, is directed by Gorilla Rep Founding Artistic Director, Christopher Carter Sanderson & marks the 16th season for the highly respected theatre company.
Featured in this AEA Showcase Production are Ed Banas, Bruce Barton*, Michael Bradley Cohen, Ellen DiStasi*, Christopher Gottschalk*, Tom Lawson*, Michael Jennings Mahoney*, Chelsea O’Connor, Greg Petroff*, Oh Rhyne*, Christopher Salazar, Frances You Sanderson, Kurt Uy*, Colleen Wallnau* & Laurence Weeks.
In addition to this production of Hamlet, Sanderson in also directing KNB – the Musical as part of the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival. "KNB," which Sanderson also wrote, is an old fashioned romance about a group of Navy men & women stationed in Kuwait, who stage a musical. The show is set in a Naval Reserve unit much like the one Sanderson served in for the past year.
Hamlet will play at The Cloisters Thursday -Sunday at 8pm. Admission is free. There will be no intermission, but audiences will be able to leave & rejoin the performance in progress. For further information visit: www.gorillarep.org
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