The inaugural 2009 season of the Trinity Shakespeare Festival was received with enthusiastic audience and critical response. The productions of Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night were recently awarded multiple Dallas-Fort Worth Theatre Critics Forum awards for design, acting and directing. More information on the Trinity Shakespeare Festival can be found at www.trinityshakes.org.
The festival is supported, in part, by a Vision in Action grant from TCU.
William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: In Shakespeare’s most compelling tragedy, young Prince Hamlet returns home from school for his father’s funeral, only to find that his widowed mother’s marriage to his uncle is “close upon”. In a relentless series of discoveries and decisions, Hamlet is confronted by his father’s ghost, his girlfriend’s betrayal, his uncle’s treachery, his college friends plotting and a reckoning with his own mortality as he must decide how to revenge a “murder most foul.” Hamlet is Shakespeare’s most ferociously paced tragedy, an unraveling mystery leading to the ultimate choice.
William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing: In Shakespeare’s most delightful comedy we meet a confirmed bachelor, Benedick, a great soldier fresh from the wars, and Beatrice, the governor’s lively niece, who has declared herself equally determined to remain unmarried. In this masterpiece of verbal comedy, alive with puns and plans gone awry, Benedick and Beatrice joust and juggle each other toward the inevitable meeting of the minds and more. Shakespeare has crafted a romance that brings together young lovers, bickering brothers, duels and duets, mistaken identity and identity revealed. Much Ado About Nothing is Shakespeare at his romantic best.