Shakespeare Theatre Company Free For All
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In 1991 the Shakespeare Theatre Company, under Artistic Director Michael Kahn, initiated its annual Free For All performances in Washington, D.C.’s Rock Creek Park. Every year the Company performs a show, free to the public, usually from a previous season, at the Park’s outdoor Carter Barron Amphitheatre.
The first Free For All production in 1991 was The Merry Wives of Windsor and starred Paul Winfield as Falstaff. More recent shows have included Much Ado about Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Pericles. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the Free For All production for 2005, traveled to the Aspen Institute’s Ideas Festival in Colorado that same summer.
The Shakespeare Theatre Company received The Washington Post Award for Distinguished Community Service in 1992 and the 1997 Public Humanities Award from the Humanities Council of Washington D.C. for the Free For All.
[edit] Past Free For All Productions
- Summer 2006: Pericles
- Summer 2005: A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Summer 2004: Much Ado about Nothing
- Summer 2003: Hamlet
- Summer 2002: The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Summer 2001: King Lear
- Summer 2000: The Merchant of Venice
- Summer 1999: The Merry Wives of Windsor
- Summer 1998: All's Well That Ends Well
- Summer 1997: Henry V
- Summer 1996: Measure for Measure
- Summer 1995: Twelfth Night
- Summer 1994: Comedy of Errors
- Summer 1993: Much Ado about Nothing
- Summer 1992: As You Like It
- Summer 1991: The Merry Wives of Windsor
