Ballpark Prepares For 'Shakespeare At Fenway'
BOSTON (CBS) - Friends, Romans, Bostonians, lend me your ears, for Friday night will be a Fenway first. The hometown park becomes Stratford upon Avon, and like the Sox, will be filled with Shakespearean tragedy and comedy.
What light through yonder dugout breaks? It is the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company rehearsing for tonight's first of its kind "Shakespeare at Fenway."
"It's certainly an unconventional space, but we're an unconventional theater company," says Steven Maler, the company's artistic director. A kickoff to the troupe's 20th season, it's the bard's greatest hits on the first base line.
"It's from the serious things like Othello and Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet, but also into the more comedic and fun things like Twelfth Night and A Midsummer's Night Dream," says Maler.
And it's perfect for Red Sox Nation.
"Being a Red Sox fan you're used to comedy, you're used to tragedy, you're used to farce. So that sort of seems like a perfect fitting place for us," says Maler.
And maybe the hard luck Sox can learn something from the great playwright. Perhaps "to thine own self be true," or "now is the winter of our discontent."
The performance starts Friday night at 7:30p. Most tickets are $35. And remember the words of Sox president Larry Lucchino, "All the ballpark's a stage."
For more information visit www.commshakes.org.
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