4 Reasons to See Hamlet!

[Melissa Bridges]

On Friday, February 14, 2014 4:22 PM, Jay Craven <jcr...@marlboro.edu> wrote:

FOUR GOOD REASONS TO SEE HAMLET!   1. Tickets are cheap.  Use the discount code WTS to get 35% off regular prices. Tickets as low as $12 -- for a $25,000 production (thanks to sponsors).   2. Every ticket purchased makes it possible for 800 NEK teens to see professional Shakespeare, often for the first time.  The student matinees sell out fast --with raves from kids and teachers -- but these crucial shows can't continue without adult ticket buyers, too.  If you can't go and want to support kids who love Shakespeare, go to KingdomCounty.org and DONATE.   3. This is solid professional theater on a grand scale that we can only produce once a year.  The Acting Company and Guthrie Theater are both Tony - winners. This is as good as it gets for professional touring classical theater.    4. This will be a fun night out, especially for a Tuesday; there's good action and intense emotions; you can DVR the Olympics to watch later; and wouldn't it fun to hear good actors playing some of your favorite Shakespeare lines ("To be or not to be..." -- "To die to sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub." -- "Brevity is the soul of wit" and, I almost forgot: "Sweets to the sweet."   Happy Valentines Day!   Kingdom County Productions and St. Johnsbury Academy Present 20% off already low prices for (use discount code WTS)     A fully-costumed, lavish production by two Tony-winning theater troupes Hamlet  performed by The Acting Company and The Guthrie Theater  "Expertly directed...a winner."  - New York Times 7pm, Tues. Feb. 18 Fuller Hall, St. Johnsbury Academy  Tickets available at KingdomCounty.org or call 888-757-5559. Or by email to Jay Craven (jcr...@marlboro.edu).  Hamlet to Play St. Johnsbury -  Live on Stage - Tues. Feb. 18th   Don't miss this rare and exciting evening of professional theater in Brattleboro.  And by attending--you support KCP's annual commitment to expose 800 area boys and girls to a matinee production--at reduced prices!   Kingdom County Productions and St. Johnsbury Academy will present a lavish and fully costumed production of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, 7pm, Tuesday, February 18th at the Fuller Hall, St. Johnsbury Academy.  The show will be performed through a special collaboration between two of America's leading classical theater troupes, The Acting Company and The Guthrie Theater.   Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatizes the revenge Prince Hamlet exacts for his father's murder, setting him on a journey seeking personal meaning and coming to grips with his own mortality. It vividly portrays overwhelming grief and rage while exploring themes of danger, revenge and moral corruption. Hamlet is among the most powerful and influential tragedies in English literature, one of Shakespeare's most popular works - and still among his most performed.  Published between 1601 and 1603, many believe that Hamlet is the best of Shakespeare's works and the perfect play. It is certainly one of his most well-known and oft-quoted plays.   Ian Belknap, The Acting Company's Artistic Director, brings this masterpiece to life having previously directed the Company's The Comedy of Errors and John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. He served as assistant to Doug Hughes on the Company's The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, selected as the 4th Best Play of the year by TIME Magazine.  The Acting Company has toured to 48 states and 10 foreign countries earning a TONY for Excellence in Theater.    Kevin Kline, Rainn Wilson, Patti LuPone, Cristin Milioti, Frances Conroy, Jeffrey Wright, Harriet Harris, David Ogden Stiers, Keith David, Hamish Linklater and Jesse L. Martin are but a handful of performers who began their careers on tour with The Acting Company.  Hamlet will be performed in collaboration with another Tony-winning troupe, Minneapolis' superb Guthrie Theater.  Actors who started at the Guthrie include Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn, Framk Langella, and many others.   For more information, contact Jay Craven (jcr...@marlboro.edu) For more information or for information about RUSH tickets, contact jcr...@marlboro.edu  Produced and presented by Kingdom County Productions and St. Johnsbury Academy working in association with Lyndon State College, Passumpsic Savings Bank, and Catamount Arts.   Sponsors include Vermont Broadcast Associates, Vermont Public Radio, Dover Ford, Bill and Donna Marshall, Wells River Savings Bank, NVRH, Comfort Inn, Abel Toll and Ronnie Lyster of the Autosaver Group,  Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont. KingdomCounty.org     STAY IN TOUCH    www.kingdomcounty.org / 802-357-4616

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