Fayetteville’s Konos Academy is hosting “An Evening with Shakespeare,” madrigals, and a Renaissance Festival on Thursday, Feb. 5, and Friday, Feb. 6.
The family fun will begin with a Renaissance festival complete with games, food, and trinkets, followed by a visit to the Globe Theatre where attendees will be “groundlings” at as William Shakespeare himself talks about his plays and life.
Shakespeare is played by Andrew Lauer of Fayetteville. Shakespeare’s daughters, Susanna and Judith, are performed by Charis Harper of Fayetteville and Sarah Thompson of Peachtree City. The cast includes more than 90 high school students from Konos Academy of Fayetteville and Peachtree City: an accredited homeschool-hybrid education center which offers a range of academics, arts, and sports for grades 4-12.
At the festival, Elizabethan meals will be for sale, along with jewelry, swords, garlands, hats, fairy wands, and toys. Children can practice sword fighting, play games, listen to story-tellers and strolling minstrels, have their faces painted and hair braided, and take pictures in the stocks. Musicians and tumblers will perform before the show.
The doors open at 6:00 p.m. on Feb. 5 and the show begins at 6:45 p.m. Two shows are scheduled for Feb. 6 – a matinee at 1 p.m. and evening show at 6:00 p.m. Again, the plays will begin 45 minutes later.
All the fun will be at New Hope Baptist Church, South Campus at the corner of GA Highway 74 and GA Highway 85, 1563 Joel Cowen Parkway, Senoia.
Each show features two abbreviated comedies and two condensed tragedies by William Shakespeare.
On Feb. 5, the students will present selections from “Twelfth Night”, “Macbeth”, “Julius Caesar”, and “Taming of the Shrew”. At the matinee on Friday, Feb. 6, the students will present abbreviated versions of “Much Ado about Nothing”, “Julius Caesar”, “Romeo and Juliet”, and “Taming of the Shrew”. On Friday night, experience “Much Ado about Nothing”, “Macbeth”, “Romeo and Juliet”, and “Twelfth Night.”
Tickets are $10 for adults and $8 for students in the evening, and all tickets are $6 for the matinee.
For more information on Konos Academy or “An Evening with Shakespeare,” call 770-632-0771 or go to www.konos.org.
