Shakespeare Festival

The Shakespeare Festival is a weekend-long event featuring full-length Shakespeare plays in the beautiful Theater in the Woods outdoor amphitheater. Come for a summer evening of comedy, tragedy and romance as locally established theater companies pay homage to William Shakespeare's work in a truly fitting setting.

Admission to these performances is free. Suggested donation: $4 per person. Your donation is greatly appreciated and helps to make the Shakespeare Festival possible.

Parking
In addition to our main parking lot, performance parking is available at the Lexington-Diffley Athletic fields. Banners and signs will be posted. Walking distance to amphitheater is a hilly 5-minute hike from either entrance.

Join us this season as we celebrate the 10 years of outdoor concerts in the Theater in the Woods amphitheater. Enjoy special family-friendly activities to be scheduled throughout the season to commemorate this milestone.

Help those in need by bringing a food donation for Eagan’s 150th Birthday food drive to any of our 2010 season events.

WEATHER ALERT: CANCELED: Because of the severe weather and tornado sirens, this evenings performance has been canceled. Thank you.

“Troilus and Cressida”
Friday, 6:30pm
Presented by Cromulent Shakespeare Company
Directed by Ariel Pinkerton

Synopsis: Troilus and Cressida is one of Shakespeare's most complex and least performed works. Set during the Trojan War it tells the story of the great war between Troy and Greece over the delicious and desirable Helen, and the lives which are destroyed as a result. Full of headstrong lovers swearing vows of loyalty, tainted, vain, and lazy heroes, brawny halfwits and—of course—a villain or two. Troilus and Cressida is part history, part comedy, part drama, there is something for all audiences to enjoy.

“Hamlet”
Saturday, 6:30pm
Presented by Minnesota Shakespeare Company
Directed by Mikel Clifford

Synopsis: Featuring Nick James as Hamlet and Rob Gardner as Claudius, the Minnesota Shakespeare Company celebrates its 33rd year with Shakespeare's most celebrated work, Hamlet. Hamlet’s troubles begin with his rebellion against his aristocratic class by going to a forward-looking University, making friends with commoners and actors, and falling love with Ophelia, a politician's daughter. Devastated by his father’s death, Hamlet learns a terrible secret when his father’s ghost reveals his murderer: Claudius, who married his widowed mother in order to steal the crown from the Prince of Denmark: Hamlet. To expose Claudius, Hamlet writes a play identical to the murder plot to be performed before the murderer and others. Anger over the compromises and duplicities of the adult world ultimately leads to Hamlet’s untimely death.

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