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About Knoxville Shakespeare
The Tennessee Stage Company presents its 35th Shakespeare Festival, Knoxville Shakespeare, this year, featuring Love's Labour's Lost and Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Join us for both shows to see our outstanding cast takes on two of Shakespeare's most popular tales!
Most performances will be held on the lawn in front of the Ijams Visitor Center, located at 2915 Island Home Ave., Knoxville, TN 37920, just a short drive from downtown. The Ijams Visitor Center will serve as a rain space as well as the place where matinees will be performed.
Nightly performances begin at 7:30pm; doors open at 7pm.
Matinee performances begin at 2:00pm; doors open at 1:30pm.
Matinee and evening performances on July 27 and Aug. 3 will be indoors for both performances.
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Reservations and in-person tickets are $15; Each Thursday evening performance is a Pay-What-You-Can event.
Love's Labour's Lost
The King of Navarre and his three best friends swear to shut themselves away from the World and the distracting company of women for three years to devote their time to study and reflection. Enter the beautiful young Princess of France and three of her ladies in waiting to negotiate a treaty between the two countries. How long can the young men keep their vows when they are tempted by such beauty, charm and intelligence? Watch the men melt with love, deny all shortcomings and make complete and loveable fools of themselves at the hands of four very sharp and beautiful women. They have been at a great feast of languages and stolen the scraps…
Matinee Performance
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
The most famous play ever written – often proclaimed the greatest play ever – Shakespeare’s immortal story of the young Prince of Denmark who suspects his stepfather of murdering his father for the crown – and his wife. Of all Shakespeare’s plays, Hamlet is the most exciting, questioning, disturbing, spiritual, provoking, transcendent, whirling and honest. In that it is the
playwright’s most profound and elusive depiction of the human condition. To be, or not to be, that is the question.
For more information about the Tennessee Stage Company, Knoxville Shakespeare, or its support guild, Buddies of the Bard (BOB), call +1865-546-4280, e-mail tennesseestage@comcast.net or visit tennesseestage.com.
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Knoxville Shakespeare would not be possible without the support of the Tennessee Arts Commission, the City of Knoxville, Knox County, the Arts & Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville, and Ijams Nature Center.
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This project is being supported in part, by federal award number 21.027 awarded to Knox County by the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Arts & Culture Alliance.