8 JUNE 4-10, 2014
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The classic works of William Shakespeare have entertained audiences
for centuries and are regarded by
many as timeless masterpieces.
Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer
Night's Dream, Hamlet, and many
others have been adapted into
almost every spoken language
on the planet and performed
countless times around the world.
This summer, The Arts Council
of Fayetteville/Cumberland
County, The Museum of the
Cape Fear and Fayetteville State
University sponsor the third
season of a local group that performs works of William Shakespeare in our
area, Sweet Tea Shakespeare.
Sweet Tea Shakespeare was founded in 2012 at Fayetteville State
University by Jeremy Fiebig, who is an Assistant Professor of Theatre. He
says he founded the group because he wanted to, "dig back into work with
Shakespeare ... I wanted to get Fayetteville interested in Shakespeare, too."
To perform, Fiebig has assembled a cast of actors that he describes as, "a
mix of local professionals, some of my students, students from Methodist
University, recent alumni from FSU and Methodist, Campbell University
and students at FTCC … We have actors who have worked with us before,
who have worked at Gilbert Theatre, Cape Fear Regional Theatre and the
university theatres in the area. People will recognize them from other work
in the community. That is one of the things that we pride ourselves on,
these people on stage are known."
The group is set to perform two shows; one series in June and another
in July. Love's Labour's Lost runs June 18-22, and is directed by
Jeremy Fiebig. The Taming of the Shrew, the second show of the season,
runs July 16-20, and is directed by Greg Fiebig, who is a Professor of
Communication and Theatre at
Indiana-Wesleyan University, and
the father of Jeremy Fiebig.
Both shows begin at 7 p.m.,
and are performed outdoors on
the grounds of the Poe House
at the Museum of the Cape Fear
on Arsenal Avenue. Fieberg has
chosen to perform outdoors
because, "doing any type of
theatre is about making magic and
there are a lot of ways to go about
getting that magic; the play itself,
the scenery, costumes, lighting, the effects, actors, music. For Sweet Tea,
much of that magic comes from the beautiful environment of Southeast
North Carolina. We are about beautiful spaces and beautiful words; we
selected the Poe House because it is a beautiful environment. It adds to the
magic of the play, the magic we bring as actors, musicians and artists.
"Sweet tea is something everybody has in common around here, it is
everywhere, and it is something everyone can enjoy. Shakespeare can be,
and is, all of those things, too. We want to be the best party in town. A
lot of Sweet Tea Shakespeare is built around the idea of community and
an event. When you come to Sweet Tea Shakespeare, you are getting a
great production of a play but you are also going to get the opportunity
to hang out with other people. We want Shakespeare to be at the center
of that party. But that party doesn't happen unless the
community is there."
Find out more about Sweet
Tea Shakespeare at www.
sweetteashakespeare.com.
Sweet Tea Shakespeare Comes to the Poe House
by MICHAEL SMITH
MICHAEL SMITH, Contributing
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