Michigan Shakespeare Festival

2008 Season

July 15 - August 3, 2008

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All's Well That Ends Well

"Who cannot be crushed with a plot?" Act IV Scene III

Is Helena devious and obsessive in her love for Bertram, or honest and righteous? Is Bertram an unredeemable and disdainful rogue, or a young man in need of life experience before wedlock? Read more...

Julius Caesar

"Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more." Act III Scene II

Although one of Shakespeare's most popular and quoted plays, JULIUS CAESAR is also a play of paradoxes; a play of soaring ambition; a play of power abused; a play of dreams, superstitions, portents, passions and predictions; a play of subtlety and sophistication. Read more...

Three Spinning Fairies

From the Brothers Grimm Adapted by Miriam Biskin
A play with a heroine that all children can understand.

Belinda wants to marry the Prince, but his mother, the Queen, will only allow her son to wed a girl who can spin flax. As a test, Belinda is locked in a dungeon with a spinning wheel and not allowed out until she has spun a gigantic amount of the cloth. Alas, Belinda has never learned to spin. Read more...

The Mikado

By W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
In cooperation with the U of M Gilbert & Sullivan Society and the Jackson Symphony Orchestra

A special end-of-the-season production of Gilbert & Sullivan's most popular operetta.


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