University of Florida Performing Arts

U.S. TOUR PREMIERE 

Sponsored by the Dharma Endowment Foundation

There will be a post-performance discussion with the company immediately following the show.

To read the program, click here.

To read Ben Brantley’s review of Shakespeare & Company’s Hamlet, click here.

Directed by Eleanor Holdridge

Featuring an Equity cast including:
Jason Asprey as Hamlet
Tina Packer as Queen Gertrude
Nigel Gore as Claudius
Dennis Krausnick as Polonius

About Shakespeare & Company

One of the larger Shakespeare Festivals in the country, Shakespeare & Company was founded in 1978 by Tina Packer, its current Artistic Director and President. Born in England, Tina journeyed to the United States in the early 1970s with the idea of creating and running a theater company that merged the power suits of British actors and American actors: the spoken word and the physical body. Reinvigorating her sense of what Elizabethan theater and acting constituted, Tina secured residency at novelist Edith Wharton’s beautiful turn-of-the-century estate, The Mount. In 2000, Tina and the Company purchased its new 30 acre home (with numerous buildings) at 70 Kemble Street in Lenox Center, one mile from The Mount.

Launching its 31st  season in the culturally-rich Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts in Lenox, Shakespeare & Company aspires to create a theater of unprecedented excellence rooted in the classical ideals of inquiry, balance, and harmony; a company that performs as the Elizabethans did – in love with poetry, physical prowess, and the mysteries of the universe. With a core of over 150 artists, the company performs Shakespeare, generating opportunities for collaboration between actors, directors, and designers of all races, nationalities, and backgrounds. Shakespeare & Company provides original, in-depth, classical training and performance methods. The company also develops and produces new plays of social and political significance. Shakespeare & Company’s educational programs inspire a new generation of students and scholars to discover the resonance of Shakespeare’s truths in the everyday world, demonstrating the influence that classical theater can have within a community.