Repercussion Theatre to Kick Off 25th Anniversary with A STARRY NIGHT, July 11

As you may already know, Repercussion Theatre is celebrating 25 years of Shakespeare-in-the-Park this season and is kicking it off in Montreal atop of Mount Royal. Please join Repercussion on July 11th for A Starry Night behind the Chalet du Mont-Royal!

At 6:30pm, enjoy musical performances by Shakespeare-in-the-Park alumni Nick Carpenter, Mike Hopkins, Jennifer Morehouse and Emily Skahan (Motel Raphael) while being transformed into an aristocrat, a fairy, or a mechanical by the extraordinary face painting talents of Kromatic. All ages welcome! The evening will be co-hosted by founding Artistic Director, Cas Anvar, and current Artistic Director, Paul Hopkins.

At 7:30pm, grab a blanket, a lawn chair and a picnic basket, sit back and enjoy this special staging of A Midsummer Night's Dream, the play that practically invented the concept of Shakespeare in a park! If you prefer to avoid the inconvenience of lugging items up the mountain, and want to support Shakespeare-in-the-Park at the same time, special Picnic Packages are available (includes VIP seating, a picnic, an invitation to our "After-Party", a ballot to win two round-trip tickets from ViaRail, and a tax receipt)! Lawn chairs will be available for rent for $5.

If you can't make the July 11th event, or maybe you want to come more than once, the tour starts with preview performances at McGill Campus' Three Bares Park on July 4 and 5, we take the show on the road to Reford Gardens, Grand Métis for a couple of days, then back to Montreal and other beautiful settings for the remainder of the tour.

As always, performances are FREE or GIVE what you can, and we will be collecting non-perishable food items for local area food banks.

To arrange group seating (for 10 or more) or for other information, please e-mail or call 514-931-2644.

The complete tour schedule is listed below, or watch for Repercussion's ads in The Gazette in the coming weeks:

Thursday, July 4 / Three Bares Park, McGill Campus / 7:30pm (PREVIEW)

Friday, July 5 / Three Bares Park, McGill Campus / 7:30pm (PREVIEW)

Sunday, July 7 / Reford Gardens, Grand-Métis / 7:00pm

Monday, July 8 / Reford Gardens, Grand-Métis / 7:00pm

Thursday, July 11 / Behind Chalet du Mont-Royal, Mount Royal / 6:30pm

Friday, July 12 / Philippe-Laheurte Park, Saint-Laurent / 7:30pm

Saturday, July 13 / Jarry Park, Parc Extension / 7:30pm

Sunday, July 14 / Recreation Centre, Hemmingford / 7:30pm

Tuesday, July 16 / Mount Royal Cemetery, Outremont / 7:30pm

Wednesday, July 17 / Westmount Park, Westmount / 7:30pm

Thursday, July 18 / Westmount Park, Westmount / 7:30pm

Friday, July 19 / Westmount Park, Westmount / 7:30pm

Saturday, July 20 / Douglass Beach / Knowlton / 7:30pm

Sunday, July 21 / Théâtre de Verdure, Parc Lafontaine / 8:00pm

Tuesday, July 23 / Park NDG, NDG / 7:30pm

Wednesday, July 24 / Park Ecclestone, Kirkland / 7:30pm

Thursday, July 25 / Park Pine Beach, Dorval / 7:30pm

Friday, July 26 / Cabot Square, Ville-Marie / 7:30pm

Saturday, July 27 / Westmount Park, Westmount / 7:30pm

Sunday, July 28 / Westmount Park, Westmount / 7:30pm

Tuesday, July 30 / East Community Centre, Pierrefonds / 7:00pm

Wednesday, July 31 / Pierre Elliott Trudeau Park, Côte Saint-Luc / 7:30pm

Thursday, August 1 / Park George O'Reilly, Verdun / 7:30pm

Friday, August 2 / RAIN DATE

Saturday, August 3 / Mont Bellevue, Morin Heights / 7:30pm

Sunday, August 4 / Park Centennial, Beaconsfield / 7:30pm