Shakespeare in the Park
Central Park, Louisville, Ky
July 3, 2021
It’s always a pleasure to attend Shakespeare in the Park as part of the Kentucky Shakespeare’s annual production and the longest running non-ticketed Shakespeare Festival in the country. Matt Wallace, producing artistic director, is a familiar face to community attendees and on this Friday evening during intermission announces the second biggest crowd of the Summer, which is a significant impact after a year off from COVID.
The evening is so much more than the impressively talented company though, which includes stage favorites such as Abigail Bailey Maupin and newer faces such as BeeBee Patillo.
The rotating food trucks each evening, Will’s Tavern, watching children run over to catch lightning bugs at dusk, and seeing the bats fly overhead once the light fades; these are the pieces that bring together the unique ambience for Ky’s Shakespeare in the Park. You will undoubtedly run into someone you haven’t seen in years (on this occasion I ran into three people I hadn’t seen in ages). And when you return to your car through the dark of the park you will have a special piece of summer that can live on in your heart as a quiet and shared community experience.
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Ky Shakespeare Land Acknowledgement
Kentucky Shakespeare acknowledges we are situated on the traditional land of the Adena, Hopewell, Miami, Osage, Shawnee, and ᎠᎳᎫᏪᏘᏱ Tsalaguwetiyi (Cherokee, East) people. We respect their enduring presence and historical stewardship of these lands.
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