WEEKLONG FESTIVAL BRINGS BARD TO LIFE.Byline: Daily News PALMDALE - The works of Shakespeare will be staged for a week starting Monday at the Palmdale Playhouse during the 9th annual Shakespeare Festival. The festival has evolved from a one-day, one-man festival in 1997 to a seven-day festival full of workshops, Renaissance activities, English food, ballets and plays. The Palmdale Visual Arts visual arts npl → artes fpl plásticas visual arts npl → arts mpl plastiques visual arts npl → Group is sponsoring a Renaissance wreath and jewelry jewelry, personal adornments worn for ornament or utility, to show rank or wealth, or to follow superstitious custom or fashion. The most universal forms of jewelry are the necklace, bracelet, ring, pin, and earring. workshop at 7 p.m. Monday. Participants can create floral head wreaths using dried flowers and ribbons, or period necklaces, bracelets and earrings using leather bands, beads and bells. Class is limited to 25 participants. Registration is $10 plus the cost of supplies. On April 15, Will & Company's artistic director Colin Cox will host a workshop on ``Acting Shakespeare'' at 7 p.m. The workshop covers text, verse, history of performance, stage combat, monologues and scene study. Participants should bring a complete work of William Shakespeare to the workshop. The cost is $10. Cox has acted in, directed, produced or taught the entire canon of Shakespeare. He began acting as a teenager in England while working with the National Youth Theatre. He earned his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Bristol and taught in Japan before returning to his theater roots in 1986. Cox formed the theater group Will & Company in 1988. The company has been a long-standing and popular participant in the Shakespeare Festival. Cox will conduct a ``Macbeth'' workshop at 7 p.m. Wednesday. Participants will discuss the history of writing and performing Shakespeare's dark play as well as the plot and character analysis. Participants should bring a copy of the play. The cost of the workshop is $10. The play ``Macbeth'' will be presented at 7 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $20 for adults and $15 for seniors, students, military and children age 12 and younger. State Street Ballet will present ``Handkerchief Dance'' at 7 p.m. Friday. Taken from a line in Robert Frost's classic poem, ``The Road Not Taken,'' New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of choreographer cho·re·o·graph v. cho·re·o·graphed, cho·re·o·graph·ing, cho·re·o·graphs v.tr. 1. To create the choreography of: choreograph a ballet. 2. William Soleau has created a work in the Elizabethan style Elizabethan style (ĭlĭz'əbē`thən), in architecture and the decorative arts, a transitional style of the English Renaissance, which took its name from Queen Elizabeth's reign (1558–1603). reminiscent of Shakespeare. The ballet is based on the premise that everyone has choices, using the metaphor of two paths in the woods for choices in life. Tickets are $20 for adults and $15 for seniors, students, military and children. The festival concludes with Will & Company presenting ``A Midsummer Night's Dream'' at 2 p.m. April 10. The comedy takes audience members through the forests of Athens with lovers, fairy kings, queens and bumbling bum·ble 1 v. bum·bled, bum·bling, bum·bles v.intr. 1. To speak in a faltering manner. 2. To move, act, or proceed clumsily. See Synonyms at blunder. v.tr. rustics. A post-show discussion with the cast will follow the play. Tickets are $14 for adults and $12 for seniors, students, military and children. Throughout the festival, members of the dance company dressed in authentic Elizabethan costumes will perform Renaissance dances Renaissance dances belong to the broad group of historical dances. While we know that people danced in Europe long before the Renaissance, the first detailed dance manuals that survive today were written in 1450 and 1455 in Italy. . The Playhouse Madrigal madrigal, name for two different forms of Italian music, one related to the poetic madrigal in the 14th cent., the other the most common form of secular vocal music in the 16th cent. Singers, similarly attired, will serenade serenade [Ital. sera=evening], term used to designate several types of musical composition. Opera and song literature yield numerous examples of the serenade sung or played by a lover at night beneath his beloved's window; outstanding is patrons. Elizabethan style food will be for sale. Package prices for the festival are $52 for adults and $44 for seniors, students, military and children. Workshop fees are not included in the package. For more information call (661) 267-5685 or order online at www.cityofpalmdale.org. |
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