Arts & Entertainment

Shakespeare Festival Shows Slated at Lakewood Park This Weekend

Group to perform Othello and Love's Labour's Lost at the park's bandstand.

In one of William Shakespeare's earliest plays, a comedy called Love's Labour's Lost, he coined the first longest word: honorificabilitudinitatibus.

That performance — along with Othello, another of Shakespeare's finest plays — are coming to Lakewood this weekend.

is setting up shop this Sunday at for for two free performances of two well-known Shakespeare plays.

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Theater connoisseurs, literature lovers and anyone else who might enjoy a free show in the park can see at 7 p.m. Saturday and the same time Sunday.

Othello is the story of the titular Moor, Othello, and his new wife, Desdemona, and how they come to tragic ends at the hands of Othello's duplicitous ensign, Iago.

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Love's Labour's Lost is an early Shakespearean comedy about four friends who swear to devote themselves to study instead of women for three years.

The theater troupe will perform both plays at the at the park.

No reservations are required and the performance is free. 

Visitors also are welcome to bring a picnic dinner. However, alcohol is not permitted.

While the shows are free, guests certainly can donate to the Cleveland Shakespeare Festival if they so choose.


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