-->

* * * * *

The Traveling Players

Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors comes to Historic Amphitheatre

 
Clifton Forge, VA (July 17, 2017) - The Traveling Players Ensemble will perform Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors on the Masonic Amphitheatre’s award-winning stage on Friday, August 4 at 7:30 pm.

In Shakespeare’s gleefully ridiculous comedy, two pairs of identical twins dodge mistaken identities, irate wives, sinister moneylenders, dangerous Dukes, mysterious nuns, and the forces of the law in a ludicrous four-way identity crisis.

Traveling Players Ensemble's mission is to bring great theatre into the great outdoors. The company has been invited to perform at the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage, Colonial Williamsburg, Shenandoah National Park, Reston's Multicultural Festival, and the International Children's Festival at Wolf Trap.

The company has mounted several productions at the Historic Masonic Amphitheatre, including As You Like It and Twelfth Night, and has performed at the Masonic Amphitheatre on two previous occasions.

This performance features the company's most advanced ensemble, the Traveling Troupe, which rehearses a full-length Shakespearean play for five weeks, then hits the road for a two-week tour throughout Virginia, camping, hiking and performing outside.

Other stops on the tour include, Pocahontas State Park, Reston Town Center, and The Madeira School in McLean, VA.

Now in its fifteenth year, Traveling Players Ensemble was selected as one of 25 model summer arts programs by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).

Traveling Players is supported in part by the Arts Council of Fairfax County, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.  The company has been honored as one of the best community-based non-profits in the DC Metropolitan area by the Greater Washington Catalogue for Philanthropy.

Traveling Players Ensemble is in residence at The Madeira School in McLean, VA. 

Throughout the school year, the company teaches weekend classes in classical acting, improvisation, mask, and movement.

Running time is two hours. Appropriate for children age 12 and up. Tickets are $5.00 each and are available online at The Masonic Theatre website, at the Theatre box office by calling 540 862 5655 or at the Entrance tent prior to the performance. Bring your lawn chairs or use our bench and Amphitheatre seating.

Tickets available at www.historicmasonictheatre.org.
 
 
 

* * * * *

BACK TO THE JOURNAL'S HOMEPAGE!
* * * * *
KEEP UP WITH THE LOCAL NEWS! SIGN UP FOR ALLEGHANY JOURNAL BREAKING NEWS BELOW!
FREE Breaking News Sign Up Here!