ACADEMY OF CREATIVITY AND CITY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL TO PRESENT

‘PASSION IN PLAY: THE 2017 SHAKESPEARE PROJECT’ FEB. 23 THROUGH 25

Salt Lake City—The Academy of Creativity and City Academy Charter School will present scenes and monologues from some of Shakespeare’s best-known works Feb. 23 through 25 at 7 p.m.  Tickets for “Passion in Play: The 2017 Shakespeare Project” are $5 for students and $8 for adults, and may be purchased at the door at City Academy.  City Academy is located at 555 E. 200 S. in Salt Lake City.

The production will include excerpts from “Hamlet,” “Two Gentlemen of Verona,” “Twelfth Night,” “As You Like It,” “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “Cymbeline,” “Richard III,” “Macbeth,” “Taming of the Shrew,” “Henry IV,” “The Tempest,” “Sonnets” and “Words, Sayings and Insults.”

Thirteen cast members have been drawn from City Academy’s student body and the community at large.  Cast members range in age from 13 to 22.

According to Director Gaby Saxton, “The performance will take place in a black box setting and we’re modernizing the scenes.  Actors will be performing in blue jeans, Converse and their production shirts.”

In addition to the public performances, the Academy of Creativity and City Academy will be presenting a school-only matinee of the first act on Feb. 23 at 11 a.m.  Representatives from the media are welcome to attend this matinee.