'Macbeth' in scenic Edgerton Park
Tall trees, the sky and the sloping lawns of Edgerton Park will serve as the backdrop once again for The Elm Shakespeare Company's annual summertime production in New Haven -- this year, a staging of "Macbeth."
Considered one of Shakespeare's darkest works, the play explore humans' capacity for selfishness and cruelty.
Yale is a supporter of the free production, which runs for three weeks in Edgerton Park. Shows will be at 8 p.m. Wednesday-Sunday, Aug. 14-Sept. 1. Audience members are encouraged to bring picnic blankets or lawn chairs.
Founded in 1995, The Elm Shakespeare Company is a professional, nonprofit theater company committed to establishing a discourse with the New Haven community through the medium of Shakespeare's plays. The company presented its first professional production at Edgerton Park in the summer of 1996 before an audience of 3,500. Since then, audiences at the company's free summer plays have grown to about 30,000 per production. Casts for the shows are composed of professional, pre-professional and student performers.
Entrances to Edgerton Park, in the northern part of New Haven near the Hamden border, are on Cliff Street (off Whitney Avenue) and Edgehill Road. For further information, call (203) 772-1474.
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