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Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival Announces Cast

The Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival today announced its Considered “one of
cast lineup for this summer’s Shakespeare by the Sea XXXIV the greatest tragedies ever
and Shakespeare by the Palms IV production of William performed,” this year’s
Shakespeare’s King Lear. The free, outdoor Shakespeare by production of King Lear is
the Sea is presented in partnership with Palm Beach County a premiere for Palm Beach
Parks and Recreation on July 11 to 14 and July 18 to 21 at the County’s longest-running
Seabreeze Amphitheatre in Carlin Park, Jupiter. The encore professional performing
performance of Shakespeare by the Palms is presented by The arts company. Caught in
Village of Royal Palm Beach on July 25 to 28. The gates open a carousel of memory, the
at 6:30 p.m. with pre-show entertainment. Performances start at head of a dysfunctional royal
8 p.m. each evening. A donation of $5 per person is suggested. family grapples with power-
The Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival production of hungry children and the
King Lear is adapted and directed by Trent Stephens. This threat of losing the empire he
year’s cast includes Amy Simms as King Lear, Caroline created. Real and imagined
Tarantolo as Regan, Casey McNamara as Albany, Darryl worlds coalesce, creating a Amy Simms as King Lear, courtesy of Jeffrey Langlois
Willis as Gloucester, Julia Kirk as Oswald, Kelly Hussey political and personal horror
as Goneril, Kyler O’Brien as Edgar, Lee Ritter as Kent, that threatens to swallow the mind of the monarch. Amphitheater in Carlin Park, located at 750 South, Florida
Matthew Paszkiet as Edmund, Sara Grant as Cordelia/The The Shakespeare by the Sea XXXIV production of King A1A, Jupiter, FL 33477.
Fool and Seth Trucks as Cornwall. Lear takes place July 11 to 14 and 18 to 21 at the Seabreeze The Shakespeare by the Palms IV encore production of
King Lear takes place July 25 to 28 at the Commons Park
Amphitheater in Commons Park, located at 11600 Poinciana
Blvd., Royal Palm Beach, FL 33411.
Performances start at 8 p.m. and run until 10 p.m. with a
15-minute intermission. Gates open at 6:30 p.m. with pre-
show entertainment. Visitors are invited to bring a beach
chair, blanket and picnic basket, or enjoy on-site concession.
Admission is free with a suggested donation of $5 per person.
Shakespeare by the Sea XXXIV is a coproduction of
the Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival, Inc. and Palm
Beach County Parks and Recreation. Grant funding is
provided by the State of Florida Division of Cultural
Affairs, Publix Supermarket Charities, and the Cultural
Council of Palm Beach County through the Board of
County Commissioners. Shakespeare by the Palms
IV is presented by The Village of Royal Palm Beach.
Additional sponsors include Gary and Katherine Parr,
Frank Cona and Lisa Calberg and an anonymous donor.
In-kind sponsors include The Benjamin School, Florida
Weekly and Palm Beach Atlantic University. Private and
corporate sponsorships are still available. To learn more
about sponsor opportunities, please email elizabeth@
pbshakespeare.org.
About The Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival
The Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival is a 501(c)(3)
professional theater company dedicated to enhancing the
accessibility and appreciation for Shakespearean, classic
and contemporary theater for all ages and socioeconomic
levels. For more information about the festival, its history
or its season, please visit www.pbshakespeare.org.

Book Review from page 14

lobster bait, Vienna sausages, an eider duckling, a
paper muffin wrapper, a loaded diaper, ana a plate’s
worth of spaghetti marinara with mussels.”
When you consider that large flocks of gulls
descend on St. Peter’s Square when crowds gather to
see and hear the Pope and understand that “droppings”
from above are not blessings from heaven, it is
clear why the Vatican has hired a Dutchman, Andre
Fritjers – who owns the company Vogelverschrikker
(Dutch for scarecrow) – to demonstrate his LaserOp
Automatic 200, “a sort of monochrome laser light
show. Lasers are silent, seemingly humane, and they
can usually be counted on to unnerve gulls for at
least a week … mainly used to dissuade cormorants,
gulls, and vultures from roosting on structures where
someone doesn’t want them – and their droppings – to
gather.”
Black bears in Aspen, Colo., who take advantage
of residents’ ignoring rules to keep trash cans shut
tight … elephants whose centuries-old pathways
in India’s forests are being surrounded and blocked
by construction, yet are being blamed and punished
for “trespassing onto humans’ property” … a page
of “poop” illustrating four different kinds of scat
that accompanies a chapter on how to track bobcat,
ocelot, jaguar and mountain lion by identifying
their droppings as part of a program to protect
these animals by keeping them apart from human
populations … these as well as others are among the
many odd and fascinating issues faced in this book’s
pages.
And not all are about animals. The author devotes
one chapter to dangerous trees, and another to
poisonous plants … both species which we now know
through scientific evidence to have intelligence and
able to wreak havoc on humans despite our “laws.”
Learn and laugh. And join me in the Mary Roach
fan club.