Yuletide Shakespeare

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Celebrate the Christmas season with students from The Marco Island Academy who will conclude their acting workshop with The Marco Island Shakespeare Festival by performing a showcase of works from some of Shakespeare’s most renowned plays. Yuletide Shakespeare will feature scenes from As You Like It, Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, and The Tempest. Joined by caroling singers and holiday cheer, this will be an event the entire family is sure to enjoy!

The Yuletide Shakespeare showcase concludes an eight-week acting workshop that was taught by

Kaitlynn McRae, Director of Operations at the Marco Island Shakespeare Festival. The students will become your favorite characters including the grieving Prince Hamlet (Josiah Hurtley), the ambitious Macbeth (Dylan Rogers), the ruthless King Richard III (Zachary Pachol), the innocent Juliet (Jessica Lang), the cynical Jacques and wizened Prospero (Erik Olson).

“Yuletide Shakespeare” is on stage December 20 at The Marco Players Theater, located in the Marco Town Center Mall, 1089 N. Collier Blvd., # 432, Marco Island, FL. The Saturday show begins at 7pm.

Tickets ($20 – adults; $10 – students) may be purchased at www.TheMarcoPlayers.com or by calling the box office 239-642-7270.