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Shakespeare Festival is Back in Ojai!!

Hey folks,
I wanted to get a chance to share with anyone who hasn't heard yet, that the Shakespeare festival is back in Ojai, at the Libbey Bowl this coming weekend, Thurs, Fri, Sat, and Sunday nights at 7:30pm.

I've been running sound for the performances with my studio assistant, Kazdyn Nicholson, and this year's performance of Midsummer Night's Dream is delightful, and hilarious!

Please help out the Ojai Shakespeare festival by coming out to see a performance, you will not be disappointed. Click on the extended entry for my review of this year's show. Thanks much!

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When I first moved to Ojai in 1999, I was thrilled to discover that my brand new little tiny town had it's own Shakespeare festival, which sported not only a main stage evening event, but also a matinee performance on the lawn, produced and performed by high school students. Wow! What character! What charm! The evening shows would be sold out, and LIbbey Bowl was packed with community theater enthusiasts, night after night, weekend after weekend.

Well, we've seen a lot of changes in this small town over the last 8 years, and our community theater programs have all but disappeared, for many different reasons. But the Shakespeare festival is not ready to give up the ghost quite yet, thank you very much! Thanks to the hard work of many determined and dedicated volunteers, OSF is able to bring us A Midsummer Night's Dream, a fantastical comedy of law and honor, youthful romance, and love potion gone awry.

Directed by Besant Hills' own Paul Amadio, produced by Peter Fox, and starring Scott Campbell, Jaye Hersh, Mike Nader, Brook Masters, Douglas Hill, Alyson Schuster, Rachel Ward, Daniel Baker, and Brad Halverson (among many, many others), OSF's production of A Midsummer NIght's Dream is a joy to watch, and comes in at just about 2 hours in length.

Dana Killgore is providing beautiful lighting for the event, and the set design is wonderful as well.
Check out some photos of past performances at http://www.ojaishakespeare.org and have a look for yourself. Tickets are $15 for minors and $18 for adults.

I hope to see everyone I know at Libbey Bowl. Please help keep the OSF alive. Attend a performance this weekend and you will not be disappointed.

Bye for now,
Chris Foley

Posted by Chris Foley on August 8, 2007 11:29 PM | | | Shakespeare Festival is Back in Ojai!!

Comments (2)

thanks Chris,

Midsummer Nite's Dream is certainly a magick event,
for a breezy Midsummer's Nite,
under the living trees ...

Comment #1 Posted by: Millennium | August 9, 2007 02:00 PM

So glad to see this group back under the oaks in the park -- they're one of the best things about summer in Ojai.

Comment #2 Posted by: phalarope | August 11, 2007 10:28 PM

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