Shakespeare In The Park

I just wanted to thank you for your most informative and insightful website. The level of concern and debate certainly is testament to the passion the community has for the Park. I am artistic director for "Shakespeare in the Rough", and this summer will mark our tenth anniversary of performing professional Shakespeare in Withrow Park, our summer home. Our performances are offered every summer free of charge to the community and our audiences continue to grow every year. On a personal note, we embrace all the community members who make up our audience: including families children and dogs! Our "lobby" area always has fresh water for passing dogs and our front of house staff always have a doggy treat at the ready. I wanted to let you know that our summer production this year is "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" and it is one of those comedies that actually needs a dog on stage. Shakespeare in the Rough hopes to engage the business and the dog-friendly community to work together later this summer when we have "doggy" auditions, our very own Canine Idol. We will be working with Gillian Ridgeway from Who's Walking Who among other community, business and political leaders. When I have more details I would love to let you know and be able to post it to your website. In the meantime if you can think of anyone that you know of who might be interested in collaborating on this healing, feel good, community event please feel free to pass my contact info on to them. Congratulations again on your terrific web site and keep up the good work. Sincerely Kevin Hammond (If you want to contact Kevin please send an email to the editor)