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Meet Brandon
Bruce!
Director of the 2008 PSC Festival production of
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Visit his web site at
www.brandon-bruce.com.
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PSC News
Our Mission
PSC is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, now
in our fifth year of FREE performances. The Pella Shakespeare Company exists to
bring fresh, fun, simple and well-spoken theatre to the public of Pella and its
surrounding communities. Our goal is to educate as we entertain
multi-generational audiences. We believe that exposure to literature and art
enhances the quality of life within our community and engages everyone in a
larger world view. Utilizing classical and important works, community and
student actors, quality production values and unusual performance spaces within
the park system, PSC Adult & Youth Troupes perform for more than 1400
audience members each year.
2008
News
For the second year in a row, we are exchanging
performances with the well known Des Moines theatre company Theatre ..for
a Change. This exchange will provide our audience with additional
cultural opportunities and actors from both companies the occasion for growth
inherent in performing for a larger regional audience.
PSC grew out of
a class project at Central College and generates cooperation between the local
community theatres, local colleges, the Community Center, Parks and Recreation,
the Corps of Engineers, DNR, the Pella Chamber of Commerce, and now Des
Moines’ Theatre..For a Change.
PSC 2008 is sponsored
by the Marion County Community Foundation, Pella Rolscreen Foundation, Friends
of Central Arts, Union Street Players, Vermeer Manufacturing, Musco Lighting,
the Central College Theatre Department, Monarch’s Restaurant and the Pella
Department of Recreation. To support PSC, click here to make a
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"When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in
rain?"
The weather has claimed our Lake Red Rock location of Howell
Station --- so on June 14 & June 21 Pella Shakespeare will be found at West
Market Park in Pella or at our rain location in Joan Kuyper Farver Auditorium
in the Pella Community Center. All other dates remain as scheduled. We look
forward to seeing you there!
"... There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the
flood, leads on to fortune..."
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2008 Performance schedule
And it’s all FREE!
Thursday, June 12 – on the Tulip Tower in
Central Park, Pella
6 pm curtain A
Midsummer Night’s Dream
Thursday Night in Pella activities begin
at 5:00 pm - and don't miss the City Band Concert immediately following the
show.
map
Fri, June 13 – West Market
Park, Pella
7 pm curtain A Midsummer
Night’s Dream
Groundling's Picnic Pre-show activities begin at
6:30 pm. Bring your lawn chairs, bug spray, blankets and picnic baskets &
JOIN US.
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Saturday, June 14 - Howell Station
Campground, Lake Red Rock
A Shakespeare Double Header!! Two for the price
of FREE!
5 pm curtain A Midsummer
Night’s Dream
7 pm curtain
Julius Caesar performed by Theatre…for a Change.
Pack a
picnic, bring your lawn chairs, bug spray, blankets and join us. FREE!
map
Wed. June 18 – West Market Park, Pella
2 pm curtain
Much Ado About
Nothing, PSC Youth Troupe for Kids & by Kids
Kids – Bring your
mom & join us for fun Shakespearian activities before the show!
1:30
arts and crafts related to the play and Shakespeare. FREE!
7 pm curtain – West Market Park, Pella
A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Groundling's Picnic Pre-show
activities begin at 6:30 pm
Bring your lawn chairs, bug spray, blankets and
picnic baskets and join us.
map
Thurs. June 19 – West Market Park, Pella
2 pm curtain Much Ado About
Nothing, PSC Youth Troupe for Kids & by Kids
Kids – Bring your
friends & join us for fun Shakespearian activities before the show!
1:30 arts and crafts related to the play and Shakespeare. FREE!
7 pm curtain A Midsummer Night’s
Dream -
Groundling's Picnic Pre-show activities begin at 6:30 pm FREE.
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Fri. June 20 – West Market
Park, Pella.
Join us for a Shakespearian Summer Solstice!
2 pm curtain Much Ado About Nothing, PSC
Youth Troupe for Kids & by Kids
Kids –Join us for fun
Shakespearian activities before the show!
1:30 arts and crafts related to
the play and Shakespeare. FREE!
7 pm
curtain Julius Caeser performed by Theatre…for a Change -
FREE!
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Fri. June 20 – Sylvan Theatre
in Des Moines
7 pm curtain A
Midsummer Night’s Dream
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Saturday, June 21 - Howell Station
Campground, Lake Red Rock
Two shows FREE!
5
pm Much Ado About Nothing, PSC Youth Troupe for Kids & by
Kids
7 pm A Midsummer Night’s
Dream
Bring your lawn chairs, bug spray, blankets and picnic baskets
and join us.
map
Sunday, June 22 – Sylvan Theatre, Des Moines
6 pm A Midsummer Night’s
Dream
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SOME HISTORY
A Midsummer Night's Dream...for kids and
by kids ....
Fairies slipped down slides, royalty rode invisible horses,
peace signs and tie dye abounded and a good time was had by all.
Attended by over 1200 people, the
2005 Pella Shakespeare Festival offered free performances by the adult troupe
of “The Comedy of Errors”, and by the kid’s troupe of “A
Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
All performances of the plays were
held outdoors in the local parks (including 2 locations in West Market Park,
Central Park and the Howell Station Campground) between June 18 and June
21-June 25, 2005.
Conversations on the Lawn, as
sponsored by an Iowa Arts Council mini-grant, were held prior to 5 evening
performances. The talks were held to enhance audience appreciation and
understanding of Shakespeare by offering illuminating historical information.
In the weeks preceding the production, several of the speakers also gave talks
at “Brown Bag Lunches” at the Pella Public Library. |
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