Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival | June 2nd - September 24th, 2011

Every June through September, Bard on the Beach professional Shakespeare Festival brings to life the magic of Shakespeare’s great plays. The Festival site is located on the waterfront in Vancouver’s Vanier Park, adjacent to the downtown core. Staged in two open-ended performance tents, the productions are set against a spectacular natural backdrop of mountains, sea and city skyline.

Bard on the Beach’s 2012 season will run May 31 to September 22.  The opening production on the Festival’s BMO Mainstage will be the rollicking romantic comedy THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, staged by Meg Roe. Playing in repertory with The Taming of the Shrew will be the timeless study moral decay and lust for power, MACBETH, directed by Miles Potter. On the Douglas Campbell Studio Stage, Bard will present the perennially popular THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, directed by Johnna Wright. Alternating with that boisterous tale of Sir John Falstaff’s romantic adventures is another of Shakespeare’s compelling history plays, KING JOHN, directed by Bard Associate Artistic Director Dean Paul Gibson.

 
Updates on Bard on Beach’s upcoming Festival will be posted regularly at www.bardonthebeach.org.
Tickets will go on sale Mid March, 2011 through the website or by calling 604-739-0559.