Delaware Shakespeare (formerly known as "Delaware Shakespeare Festival") is an outdoor Shakespeare festival that takes place during the summer months at Rockwood Park located in the city of Wilmington, Delaware. The mission of the Delaware Shakespeare is to create professional theatre and educational programs in order to further the understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's works for the residents and friends of the State of Delaware.
Production history Source:
Summer Festival at Archmere Academy 2003: A Midsummer Night's Dream 2004: As You Like It 2005: Love's Labour's Lost
Summer Festival at Rockwood Park: 2006: Much Ado About Nothing 2007: Richard III 2008: Romeo and Juliet 2009: Twelfth Night 2010: Macbeth 2011: The Winter's Tale 2012: A Midsummer Night's Dream 2013: The Two Gentlemen of Verona 2014: Hamlet 2015: The Taming of the Shrew 2016: The Comedy of Errors 2017: Henry V 2018: Much Ado About Nothing
Community Tour 2016: Pericles, Prince of Tyre 2017: As You Like It 2018: The Merchant of Venice
Education and outreach
Shakespeare, Then, Now and Always
Originally piloted in 2004, the Shakespeare, Then, Now and Always program is an interactive seminar for local high school students. One of the Festival's Shakespearean scholars visits local high school classrooms to work with students on reading, speaking and understanding the works of the Bard.
The Bridge to Shakespeare’s Masterpiece
Following the performance, a panel of DSF scholars and actors meet with the participants to review the themes of the play, discuss the world of Shakespeare and find connections to the modern world and to their own lives.
History
The Delaware Shakespeare Festival was founded in 2003 by Molly Cahill and Greg Robleto and performed for three years on the grounds of or in the auditorium at Archmere Academy in Claymont. In 2006, the Festival moving to its current outdoor only location in Rockwood Park in Wilmington. In 2011, the Festival began taking productions on tour to other destinations in Delaware, starting with a free showing of the play at The Freeman Stage at Bayside in Fenwick Island.
References
External links
Delaware Today magazine Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia Sussex Countian newspaper Greater Wilmington Convention & Visitor's Bureau