Cambridge
Shakespeare Festival
http://www.cambridgeshakespeare.com/programme/
The Festival has become a significant cultural event in the
region and can expect to attract upwards of 25,000 visitors for the productions
which run during the eight weeks of the Festival. Also, because the city
attracts so many tourists at this time of year, the Festival has acquired a
national and international dimension, with many visitors returning to Cambridge again and
again.
Programme
http://www.cambridgeshakespeare.com/programme/
8 July – 24.August 2013
Celebrating 26 years
—The Times
An evening at the Cambridge Shakespeare Festival is a unique
experience. Prior to the performance, members of the audience can picnic in
this idyllic setting, before sitting back to enjoy an evening of dynamic and
highly visual theatre. The Festival prides itself on an artistic policy which
strips away unnecessary theatrical artifice and gimmickry, and the Company
exists to provide access for all to these marvellous works without assuming any
prior knowledge of the author or the play in question.
The productions themselves are vivid and spectacular, and
are performed in full period costume with live Elizabethan music. Imperceptibly
the evening passes from a glorious summer evening to dusk and then to night.
The moon rises to provide additional lighting in a way that no theatre could
match. Following the performance the audiences from each venue return to the
heart of Cambridge
and its many bars and restaurants to end a perfect evening.