Thursday night, October 16 is FREE KIDS` NIGHT.  Up to four children 17 years of age and younger admitted FREE when accompanied by a paying guardian.  

 

The Mission

Tennessee Shakespeare Company is a professional, 501(c)(3) theatre and education organization which performs the plays of William Shakespeare seasonally outdoors in rotating repertory; performs classical and Southern writers seasonally indoors; produces a Southern-centric New Play Festival, and provides year-round educational and training programming.

The vision of the TN Shakespeare Company is to create and sustain a classical theatre that both nurtures artists and encourages audiences to exaltation, curiosity, and wonderment; a center for the community dedicated to re-discovering our faith in life by increasing our awareness of reality and expanding our imagination through an emphasis on the performance, education, and training of William Shakespeare’s works.

CURRENT PRODUCTION:  As You Like It    

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In the Church and Under the Stars!  You will have fun with Shakespeare like never before.

This production of William Shakespeare’s romantic woodland comedy will take you into the usurping Duke Frederick’s court, cousins Rosalind and Celia’s royal chambers, and penniless Orlando’s orchard: all in St. George’s Church, played in the round and promenade configurations. The action will take place all around you. Then, when Rosalind, Celia, and Touchstone escape, they will take you with them, outdoors to… The magical Forest of Arden, where the rustics play: Silvius, Phebe, Corin, and Audrey.

And in this country amphitheatre, where the rightful Duke Senior holds forth with his musical court by the water, the four lovers (including Rosalind as a convincing boy) find themselves, fall in love, and get married under the moon. All despite the melancholy antics of Jaques (“All the world’s a stage…”).

The production will feature Shakespeare`s songs set to live Celtic music composed and played by nationally-acclaimed violinist Susanna Perry Gilmore (Memphis Symphony Orchestra concertmaster) and Barry Gilmore with their Memphis band, Planet Reel.

This is environmental theatre: actors using only what is around them for props and scenery, alive with every creaking board in the Church, in harmony with every bird that chirps and train whistle that blows.

No two performances will be alike! Very traditional, very Elizabethan, very fun.

Bring your whole family.

Please note: the cast is subject to change.