Seattle Outdoor Theater Festival Announces Complete Details

The Seattle Outdoor Theater Festival will consist of the following participants:

Balagan Theatre
KING ARTHUR AND THE KNIGHTS OF THE PLAYGROUND
Directed by Sam Hagen
Sunday | Museum Lawn | 4pm
The epic legend of King Arthur set in the most politically-charged and high-stakes setting the world has known: recess. From the sandbox to the monkey bars, fifth-grader Arthur tries to rule his kingdom wisely, following the advice of his friend Merlin while navigating bullies and his ambitious sister Morgan. Experience quests, magic, music and an epic knock-knock joke battle.
www.balagantheatre.org

GreenStage
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
Directed by Patrick Bentley
Sunday | Amphitheater| 2pm
Shakespeare's beautiful telling of one of history's greatest and most ill-fated romances. Two years after the death of Julius Caesar and a new Caesar, Octavius, is coming into his own. Aging Mark Antony, one of the three rulers of Rome, lives a lavish life of passion and indulgence with Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt. As Rome pressures him to return to his duties, Antony and Cleopatra struggle to keep their own power while sharing a passion that tests their allegiances and begs the question, "What is life without love?"

THE TEMPEST
Directed by Michael D. Blum
Saturday | Amphitheater| 7pm
On an isolated, magical island, Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan and self-taught sorcerer lives in banishment. For years, his only company has been his brave young daughter, an airy magical spirit and an enslaved monster. Despite the passage of time, Prospero hungers for revenge and the opportunity comes when a powerful storm shipwrecks his usurping brother, other nobles, and some very colorful characters on the island. Shakespeare's final and most personal play, The Tempest is a powerful and often funny story of love, forgiveness and redemption.
www.greenstage.org

Last Leaf Production
AS YOU LIKE IT
Saturday | Amphitheater| Noon
As You Like It follows its heroine Rosalind as she flees persecution in her uncle's court,
accompanied by her cousin Celia and Touchstone the court jester, to find safety and eventually love in the Forest of Arden.
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
Saturday | Museum Lawn | 4pm
Merchant Of Venice brings greed, romance, prejudice, loyalty, and trust of good friends
showing us "all that glitters is not gold."
www.lastleaf99.org

Open Circle Theater
IN THE ENCHANTED FOREST
Directed by Simon Astor
Saturday & Sunday | Museum Lawn | 2pm
Open Circle Theater continues its string of hit summer park shows for kids with In The Enchanted Forest. Over several stories we meet a group of hard working fairies who deal with everything including a sad unicorn, a wicked witch, naughty elves, a cranky dragon and the queen of all the fairies. A delight for the little ones and fun for any age. You'll love spending an afternoon In the Enchanted Forest.
www.octheater.com

Theater Schmeater
ARRH! A DINOSAUR ATE MY SPACESHIP Adventures in Time and Space with Ms. Hamworthy's Third Period Theater Class
Directed by Steve Cooper
Saturday & Sunday | Amphitheater| 5pm
Take a wild trip through time and outer space in this family fun comedy by two of Seattle's most exciting writers. Just bring a blanket, a picnic basket, and the kids! In addition to the festival weekend, Arrh! runs Saturday and Sunday afternoons at 5:00 pm through August 7 in Volunteer Park.
www.schmeater.org

Wing-It Productions
THE LOST FOLIO
Directed by Kyle Kizzier
Saturday & Sunday | Museum Lawn | 7pm
A full length improvised play in the style of William Shakespeare. A traveling band of gypsy players must get help from their audience in order to create a new work (having lost the previously undiscovered script). The results are a smart, funny and bawdy show. Each performance the cast creates completely new plots and characters. No two shows will ever be the same. Featuring an all-star cast of Seattle's premiere improvisors and actors: Andrew McMasters (Objection!), Phill Arensberg (Clues), Elicia Wickstead (Lovetanic), Mike Christensen (Bunker 13), and Ian Schempp (Funbucket).
www.wingitpresents.com/lostfolio

Wooden O Productions
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
Directed by George Mount
Sunday | Amphitheater | 7pm
Two sets of long lost twins unknowingly cross paths, and set the stage for an evening of mistaken identity, mixed up confusion and mayhem! This comic master piece is full of slapstick and sight gags, puns and pratfalls. Keeping track of which twin is which is only half the fun, as Shakespeare also stacks the deck with some of his most outrageous characters, including a jealous wife, a seductive courtesan, a hapless old man seeking his sons, a zany conjurer attempting an exorcism, and even a nun who's not all she seems to be!

MACBETH
Directed by Tim Hyland
Saturday | Amphitheater | 2pm
Ambition, power and the corruption of the soul are at the center of this moody and unsettling play. A driven warrior and his scheming wife unleash forces they cannot comprehend or control in their quest to control the throne of Scotland. Urged on by the prophetic double talk of a trio of macabre witches and determined hold onto the crown even at the cost of everything around them, Macbeth and his lady sink into a world of paranoia, murder and madness.
www.seattleshakespeare.org/woodeno

Young Shakespeare Workshpw
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
Sunday | Conservatory Lawn | 11am
Love of woman. Love of man. Love of duty. Deceit in the service of good and ill. Shakespeare's sophisticated comedy Much Ado About Nothing presented by the much loved (and nationally recognized!) Young Shakespeare Workshop.
Young Shakespeare Workshop empowers its participants to take ownership of rich, exciting, beautiful, subtle, dangerous, passionate language. The kind of ownership that only physical performance can give, spoken to an audience, lived in the moment of performance, breathing the life within the words as your own.
www.youngshakespeare.org