Shakespeare coming to the North Woods Inn Resort...

Shakespeare Takes Up Residency in the Adirondack Park this Summer

Every summer in New York City the Public Theatre produces free Shakespeare in Central Park. This summer The Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts with various community partners will follow suit and produce its own version of Shakespeare in the Park. Only our park is much larger. We have the entire Adirondack Park.

This summer The Arts Center will produce a 45 minute outdoor production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream to be performed at the parks and beaches of twelve Adirondack towns. The cast will feature a unique mixture of professional actors from New York City and local aspiring actors. The production will be open to the general public, is appropriate for all ages, and is free admission. For more information about the event call The Arts Center at (518)-352-7715 or visit The Arts Center’s website at www.adirondackarts.org

The summer schedule is as follows:

• Saturday July 25th @ 2:00 pm: at the Moose River B&B in Thendera sponsored by the Cohen Family, Van Auken's Inne, Mountain Greenery and Moose River B&B.
• Saturday July 25th @ 7:00 pm: at Tupper Lake sponsored by the Tupper Lake Arts Council.
• Sunday July 26th @ 2:00 pm: at Blue Mountain Lake sponsored by the Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts
• Sunday July 26th @ 7:00 pm: at Long Lake sponsored by the Long Lake Library
• Tuesday July 28th @ 7:00 pm: at North Woods Inn in Old Forge sponsored and hosted by North Woods Inn.
• Wednesday July 29th @ 2:00 pm: at Raquette Lake sponsored RL Navigation, RL Supply, Burke’s Marina and St. Williams on Long Point
• Thursday July 30th @ 2:00 pm: at Donnelly Beach in Minerva sponsored by the Town of Minerva
• Thursday July 30th @ 7:00 pm: at Indian Lake Byron Park sponsored by the Town of Indian Lake
• Friday July 31st @ 2:00 pm: at the Rail Road Depot in North Creek sponsored by the Town of Johnsburg Library and The North Creek Business Alliance.
• Friday July 31st @ 7:00 pm: at the V.I.C. at Paul Smiths sponsored by the Adirondack Park Institute and Borealis Color
• Saturday August 1st @ 2:00 pm: at Inlet sponsored by the Town of Inlet
• Saturday August 1st @ 7:00 pm: at Speculator sponsored by the Adirondack Speculator Region Chamber of Commerce

The goal of this production is to capture the spirit of the Adirondacks. In that vein the design for the production incorporates elements of the culture of the Adirondack Park. The world of the fairies is divided into male and female with Oberon and Puck being romantic representations of the lumberjack tradition and Titania and her fairies representing environment friendly hippies. The young lovers will be summer teens on vacation from the city in their designer clothes and footwear. And the mechanicals will be beatnik actors from the city; dressed in black and armed with their bug spray.