(The story of Will Shakespeare’s missing teen years as
told by his younger better-looking brother, Gil)
A theatrical comedy for kids, teens and adults!
(Knowledge
of Shakespeare optional)
Bring comfortable seats, and a
picnic and enjoy a summer’s evening of comedy performed as it was in
Shakespeare’s time, outdoors.
7 PM
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
at the Bemis Public Library
6014 S. Datura Street
,
Littleton
,
Colorado
80120
Celebrationworks
Theatre Company presents a comedy for all ages. Shakespeare’s Brother,
weaves together real life people from young
Shakespeare’s life with fictional characters from his plays as the
fiercely opposite teenage Shakespeare brothers band together to fight
pirates, learn martial arts and crash a wedding party, before returning
home to save their father from a vicious creditor in a hilarious courtroom
scene.
Directed
by Sarah Roshan, and written by award-winning writer, Carol Roper, who has
written for Academy Award-winning actor, Robin Williams, the cast includes
notable Denver actors; Andy Anderson, Ed Cord, Hannah Marie Hines, Haley
Johnson, Robert Kramer, Lisa
Mumpton, Carol Rust, Reynelda
Snell,
and three outstanding young actors from the Denver School of the Arts:
Zachary Cantor as Will; Adam Lane as Gil; and Akil LuQman as young Othello.
Volunteers
for crowd, street and courtroom scenes are welcome, and a sign language
interpreter. If interested,
contact Celebrationworks before July 20th at
303 282 5391.
CAROL
ROPER is an award-winning writer who has worked with,
Academy Award-winning actor, Robin Williams. She is the author of the
well-received, metaphysical novel, God’s Bread (Baked Fresh Daily), and, ALLIGATORS, a full-length
comedy of family rivalry, death and
alligators. A
lifetime member of the Writers Guild of America, she
taught writing at the University of Southern California and the University
of California, San Diego. Her anti-war play, The Current Rage
received the prestigious Office for Advanced Drama Research Rockefeller
Honorarium and had productions in San Francisco and in New York.