Lakeland Presents: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)

The following was submitted to White Lake Patch by Julie O'Brien.

If you like Shakespeare, you will like this play. If you hate Shakespeare, you will love this play.   

Lakeland High School is proud to present The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged). Fast paced, funny and physical, it's full of laughter for Shakespeare lovers and haters alike. Our actors will attempt to present all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays in ninety minutes.  

Five students, Blaine Mizer, Trent Henry, Riley Day, Sarah Fitzgerald and Isabella Busby-Priest, will guide us through scenes from such well known works as Romeo and Juliet, Othello and Hamlet. The rest of the cast, Adriana Hatchard, Alayna Patten, Cristina Brewer, Gabi Kirsch, Hannah Day, Katie Loder, Emily Sculthorpe, McKenzie Straub, Samuel Newton, Tristan Raak and Whitney Wagner, will be providing all the other Shakespeare characters, in a mix of pratfalls, puns, willful misreadings of names and dialogue.  

Well known and not so well known heroes and villains such as MacBeth, McDuff, Henry VIII, Richard III and King John (just to name a few) will also make an appearance. There are sword fights, a cooking show, a football game and lots and lots of death scenes taking place.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare will be presented at Center of Performing Arts Nov. 11 and Nov. 12 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 13 at 2:00 p.m. Tickets are $10 and available at the door or online at www.lakelandhs.com (payschools). For more information call (248)318-9175.

Lakeland Players Community Theatre member Mike Brody is the Director and Cyndi Dailey and Julie O’Brien are the Producers.

The stage crew consists of all Lakeland High School students Lauren Hunter, Charlie Hunter, Megan Oosthoek, Taylor Sims, Sedona Roberts and Emmet Phillips.