Box Office Alert
ONLY TWO WEEKENDS LEFT!
There are no more reservations available for the
Saturday, August 23 performance of Twelfth Night.
(Reservations are still available for the Wednesday, August 20 performacne of Twelfth Night.)
Reservations are held only until 7:00 pm--at that time the seating area is opened to the wonderful audience members
on the waiting list.
(You can get on the waiting list at the park starting at 6:00 pm the evening of the performance.)
And remember--pledge $100 to be donated at or before a peformance and we'll save spots for up to four people anywhere you like to sit right up until showtime. Call for more information.
Free Shakespeare in Barnsdall Park 2008
June 26 - August 24
Thursday - Sunday
7:30 pm
Twelfth Night
Henry IV parts one & two
Doctor Faustus
special events throughout the summer
Barnsdall Park
4800 Hollywood Boulevard
Hollywood, CA 90027
(between Edgemont and Vermont)
Parking available on site, first come first served
Or take Metro Red Line to Vermont/Sunset
To make reservations, email which day you would like to come, what play it is, and how many people in your party to: boxoffice@independentshakespeare.com
or call (323) 836-0288
If a performance is fully booked, up until 7:00 pm only those with reservations will be seated. At 7:00 pm, all others will be welcome into the seating area.
"...establishing itself as one of the community's treasures." --Los Angeles Times
"Independent Shakespeare Co.'s unique performance style is athletic, unbuttoned, intellectually provocative, insistently modern, and far removed from old, upholstered Shakespearean productions." --Back Stage West
Twelfth Night
The grand Duke Orsino is madly in love with the grief-stricken Olivia. In turn, the duchess Olivia has sworn off society for seven years. As Orsino ignores affairs of state in favor of affairs of the heart, Olivia leaves more and more power in the hands of her fun-despising steward, Malvolio. Into this topsy-turvy world lands the unsinkable Viola, who naturally dresses up as a boy to serve the duke. Soon she, too, falls prey to the heady scent of Illyria, as both a participant and cause of madness. Adding mayhem to this heady mix are a drunken Uncle, a besotted knight, a feisty lady’s maid, and a fool who may be the only sane resident of this beguiling place.
Henry IV
Picking up where last season’s Richard II left off, this production combines the next two plays in the Wars of the Roses cycle into one raucous and poignant night of theater. The Henry IV plays conjure up a morally ambiguous world, where the path to both power and adulthood can be violent and painful. Interwoven throughout are some of the most uproariously comic scenes in all of Shakespeare, courtesy of the character who is theater’s most vital and eloquent advocate for freedom: Sir John Falstaff.
Doctor Faustus
by Christopher Marlowe
Evil Angels, the Emperor of Germany, and Helen of Troy are just a few of the characters that inhabit this fantastical world created by the Elizabethan stage’s other great writer. Dr. Faustus longs for divine knowledge. To get it, he forges a pact with the entertaining and oddly seductive Mephistopheles. For 25 years he dazzles the world, conjuring Alexander the Great at dinner parties, conversing with the Seven Deadly Sins, and wreaking havoc with the Pope…but is it worth his soul? Innovatively staged complete with masks and magic, this classic tale of human folly swings between the madcap to the macabre with surprising wit and speed.
