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Three-Fold Love is a series of community programs surrounding Great Lakes Theater Festival’s fall production of Love’s Labour’s Lost by William Shakespeare. This programming, held throughout Northern Ohio from March through October 2006, is designed for audiences of all backgrounds and ages. All Surround events are free and open to the public.
  
A FREE Outreach Touring Production
Written by: George Bernard Shaw
Directed by: Andrew May
What happens when Queen Elizabeth I, William Shakespeare, and the mythical Dark Lady of the Sonnets converge one midsummer night on the Palace terrace overlooking the Thames? Sparks fly and Shakespearean references abound in this witty Shavian delight. The Dark Lady of the Sonnets is designed for audiences of all background and ages. This surround event is free and open to the public.
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| Great Lakes Theater Festival’s outreach touring company took center stage at the Ohio Theatre, Playhouse Square Center and presented George Bernard Shaw’s The Dark Lady of the Sonnets for over fifty local teachers at the Festival’s annual teacher workshop. The performance was one of twenty venues throughout Northern Ohio that the company visited from March through May as part of the Festival’s 2006 outreach tour. The tour was part of a series of community Surround programs called Three Fold Love launched in support of the Festival’s upcoming Fall Repertory production of William Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost. The company, pictured above, featured local actors (from left to right) David Hansen, Anne McEvoy, Magdaline Donelly and Michael Regnier. |
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Great Lakes Theater Festival’s 2006 outreach touring company presented George Bernard Shaw’s The Dark Lady of the Sonnets at twenty venues throughout Northern Ohio from March through May 2006 as part of the Festival’s 2006 series of Surround programming Three Fold Love. The company featured local actors (from left to right) Magdaline Donelly, David Hansen, Michael Regnier and Anne McEvoy. |
The Dark Lady of the Sonnets Outreach Tour Schedule
Friday, March 3, 8:00 pm
The Alcazar
2450 Derbyshire Road
Cleveland Heights 44106
216.321.5400 |
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Sunday, March 12, 2:00 pm
Solon Public Library
34125 Portz Parkway
Solon 44139
440.248.8777 |
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Friday, April 7, 1:00 pm
Cleveland Sight Center
1909 East 101st Street
Cleveland 44106
216.791.8118 ext. 226
Audio Described Performance |
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Sunday, March 5, 2:00 pm
Clague Playhouse
1371 Clauge Road
Westlake 44145
440.331.0403 |
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Monday, March 13, 7:00 pm
Lake Erie College
CK Rickel Theatre
391 West Washington Street
Painesville 44077
440.375.7450 |
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Sunday, April 9, 1:15 pm
Noble Road Public Library
2800 Noble Road
Cleveland Heights 44121
216.291.5665 |
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Monday, March 6, 11:00 am
Cleveland Public Library
MLK, Jr. Branch
1962 Stokes Blvd.
Cleveland 44106
216.623.7018 |
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Tuesday, March 14, 7:00 pm
John Carroll University
Marinello Little Theatre
20700 North Park Blvd.
University Heights 44118
216.397.4191 |
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Tuesday, April 11, 7:00 pm
Fairview Park Public Library
21255 Lorain Road
Fairview Park 44126
440.333.4700 |
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Tuesday, March 7, 1:00 pm
Elyria Catholic High
725 Gulf Road
Elyria 44035
440.365.1821 |
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Thursday, March 16, 7:00 pm
Akron Public Library
Nordonia Hills Branch
9458 Olde Eight Rd.
Northfield 44067
330.467.8595 |
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Wednesday, April 12, 1:00 pm
Akron Public Library
Northwest Akron Branch
1720 Shatto Avenue
Akron 44313
330.836.1081 |
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Wednesday, March 8, 1:30 pm
Lorain Admiral King High School
2600 Ashland Avenue
Lorain 44055
440.282.9191 |
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Sunday, March 19, 3:00 pm
St. Augustine Church
2486 West 14th Street
Cleveland 44113
216.781.5530
Sign Interpreted Performance |
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Monday, April 24, 2:00 pm
Playhouse Square Center
Ohio Theatre
East 14th and Euclid
Cleveland 44115
216.241.5940 ext. 307 |
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Thursday, March 9, 7:30 pm
Lorain County Community College
Stocker Center Theatre
1005 Abbe Road North
Elyria 44035
800.995.5222 ext. 7120 |
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Wednesday, April 5, 7:00 pm
Karamu House
2355 East 89th Street
Cleveland 44106
216.795.7070 ext. 226 |
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Sunday, May 7, 3:00 pm
Oberlin Public Library
65 South Main Street
Oberlin 44074
440.775.4790 |
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Friday, March 10, 1:30 pm
North Ridgeville High
34600 Bainbridge Road
North Ridgeville 44039
440.327.1992 |
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Thursday, April 6, 12:45 pm
Bay High School
29230 Wolf Road
Bay Village 44140
440.617.7400 |
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BARDSTOCK F.M. 5.0 – A SHAKESPEAREAN SONGWRITING CONTEST AND RADIO BROADCAST
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Great Lakes Theater Festival, in partnership with 90.3 WCPN ideastream, proudly presents Bardstock 5.0 – an innovative radio program that features original student music inspired by William Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost. The Bard’s classic voice is given a unique new resonance and a contemporary spin through the rock, rap, jazz, folk, hip-hop, country, classical and other musical styles of student musicians and songwriters. Hosted by Dee Perry of WCPN’s award-winning radio program Around Noon, Bardstock 5.0 features student music, interviews with the student composers and musicians, as well as unique scholarly insights.
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| Brianna Kathleen Brighid Murphy Maloney, ninth grade home-schooled student from Medina, performs her winning entry “Fealty,” an instrumental piece inspired by the themes of friendship and loyalty found in Shakespeare’s classic comedy Love’s Labour’s Lost. |
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Two-time Bardstock winner Janelle Myers, a sophomore from Stow-Monroe Falls High, performs her winning instrumental composition, “Reminiscence of Naverre,” inspired by the themes of loyalty, jealousy, and the irony of love, discovered in Love’s Labour’s Lost. |
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| Orange High School senior Allison Elder plays her winning entry, “Woeful State and Saved my Life,” inspired by the Shakespearean Dark Lady Sonnet 145. Quartet members include (from left to right) Caroline Goulding (violin), Alena Merimee (violin), Janet Park (cello) and Allison Elder (violin). |
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Two-time Bardstock winner Terrence Farmer from Cleveland School of the Arts plays saxophone with his band Noted Revolution (Marvin Carter on piano, Perez Brown, Jr. on drums) with his original composition “African Violets,” inspired by the duality of the Dark Lady from Shakespearean sonnets 127-154. |
Listen to the winning songs from Bardstock 5.0.
LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST in ART: A COMMUNITY DESIGNED LOBBY DISPLAY
September 15 – October 21, Ohio Theatre
Great Lakes Theater Festival recently asked student and resident artists of TrueNorth Cultural Arts Center in Avon Lake to share original artwork inspired by or reflective of Shakespeare’s “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” as well as his “Dark Lady” sonnets. A panel of judges selected five pieces for this exhibit, which was on permanent display in the lobby of the Ohio Theatre throughout the Festival’s fall repertory, from September 15 – October 21, 2006.
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| Firelands High School Student Nick Leverknight composed the painting “Sonnet 141,” displayed here above TrueNorth instructor Susan Schauer’s “Word processing.” |
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TrueNorth instructor Sue Kauffman’s powerful piece, “All the world well know…” |
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| North Ridgeville High School student Brenna Lanigan’s piece, “Lovers.” |
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North Ridgeville High School student Audrey Nagel’s imaginative work, “The iPod.” |
A FREE TEACHER WORKSHOP: A LABOUR OF LOVE
Monday, April 24, 2006, Playhouse Square Center
Great Lakes Theater Festival and Playhouse Square Center join educational forces to present a free teacher workshop exploring William Shakespeare’s early work in Love’s Labour’s Lost, his “Dark Lady” Sonnets and the later work of The Tempest. Utilizing theater-based techniques to bring this enchanting comedy to life in your classroom, workshop participants will have the opportunity to: explore the play with keynote speaker Betsey Shevey; engage in interactive theatrical exercises with GLTF Education Director Daniel Hahn; and participate in Shakespearean and contemporary exercises with workshop facilitators. Participants will also have the opportunity to see a free presentation of our Outreach Tour, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets by George Bernard Shaw. Lunch will be provided free of charge. Conclude the day by taking in Playhouse Square’s Fair on the Square which features hundreds of local educational outreach opportunities for your classroom.
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| Teachers rehearse a scene from William Shakespeare’s The Tempest at Great Lakes Theater Festival’s annual interactive teacher workshop, April 24, 2006. |
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Shakespeare may never have envisioned the attempted assassination of King Alonso (The Tempest, II, i) performed on a “Survivor” island, but area teachers do just that in breathing fresh life into the classic scene. |
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| Deconstructing the Ferdinand and Miranda wooing scene, The Tempest, Act III, scene i. |
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Breakout sessions to re-imagine The Tempest in alternate settings find teachers from diverse districts working together. |
This workshop is offered free of charge.
Call GLTF Director of Education Daniel Hahn to register: 216.241.5490 ext. 307.
Join GLTF at Playhouse Square’s Fair on the Square directly after our teacher workshop! Register as an educator for special prizes and complimentary refreshments.
LCCC STUDENT PLAYWRITING CONTEST: PLAY ON
Wednesday, May 3 & Monday, May 8, 2006 at 7:30 pm
Lorain County Community College
Stocker Center, Studio Theater, 1005 Abbe Road North, Elyria
Don’t miss this thrilling series of original short plays written and presented by the students of the Lorain College Community College theater department. Featuring new plays inspired by themes from William Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost, this program offers a talk-back with the student playwrights and a panel of distinguished professional Cleveland theater artists. The students’ plays are presented and adjudicated on May 3. The winning play is staged by GLTF’s Daniel Hahn and performed by professional actors on Monday, May 8. Together, unique perspectives are shared, and the next generation of classic playwrights are encouraged and nurtured.
This program is free and open to audiences of all backgrounds and ages.
Three-Fold Love is a community collaboration between:
Great Lakes Theater Festival and…
Akron Summit County Public Library System
The Alcazar
Bay High School
Clague Playhouse
Cleveland Public Library System
Cleveland Municipal School District
Cleveland Sight Center
Cuyahoga County Public Library System
Elyria Catholic High School
Fairview Public Library System
John Carroll University
Karamu House
Lake Erie College
Lorain County Community College
Lorain Public Schools
Mary Ellen Carras, High School Coordinator, Gifted Program, Lorain County
Noble Public Library
Nordonia Hills Public Library
Oberlin Public Library System
Playhouse Square Center
Solon Public Library
St. Augustine Church
90.3 WCPN ideastream
Our Education Programs and this touring production of The Dark Lady of the Sonnets is presented through the generous support of:
The Eva L. and Joseph M. Bruening Foundation
The Cleveland Foundation
The George W. Codington Charitable Foundation
The Community Foundation of Greater Lorain County
Eaton Corporation
The Harry K. and Emma R. Fox Charitable Foundation
The GAR Foundation
Giant Eagle, Inc.
The George Gund Foundation
Louise H. and David S. Ingalls Foundation
The Martha Holden Jennings Foundation
The Laub Foundation
The Victor C. Laughlin, M.D. Memorial Foundation Trust
MBNA Foundation
The Amanda Ford Morris Trust
The David and Inez Myers Foundation
The Nord Family Foundation
Nordson Corporation Foundation
The Ohio Arts Council
Laura and Alvin Siegal
The Stocker Foundation
The Thomas H. White Foundation
A Christmas Carol Writing Contest
In The Spirit of Writing
Cleveland Mayor, Frank Jackson welcomes A Christmas Carol Writing Contest grand prize winners, their families to the Festivals annual awards banquet celebrating the nine CMSD grand prize winners. Launched in 1990, GLTFs annual A Christmas Carol Writing Contest is a literacy program open to all Cleveland Municipal School District (CMSD) students in grades six, seven and eight. Every year, over 1,000 students participate by writing original stories, songs and poems inspired by the timeless themes in Dickens classic tale. In 2006-07, over 3,500 students from 42 CMSD schools submitted entries to the contest setting a new record for student participation.
Each school is allowed to submit one winner per grade level to the Festival, and those essays are adjudicated by a panel of local educators, artists, and community members. From those, six grand prize winners are chosen, two per grade level, and those students receive an awards banquet attended by their teacher, members of their family, local actors and special guests, including, in 2006, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson.
Grand Prize winners also receive free tickets to A Christmas Carol, and several additional special prizes. All participating students receive admission to a special student matinee performance of the play, exclusively for a CMSD audience, with tickets and transportation provided in part by the Districts Supervisor of English Language Arts, Glorian Allen. At the conclusion of this special matinee, school winners are brought up on stage, awarded A Christmas Carol t-shirts, meet Dudley Swetland, the actor portraying Ebenezer Scrooge, and Lynn Robert Berg, who plays Jacob Marley.
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Dudley Swetland (Ebenezer Scrooge) reads an A Christmas Carol Writing Contest grand prize winning essay, at the Festivals annual awards banquet celebrating the nine CMSD grand prize winners.
