Shakespeare Saved By Canvas, Comics In Wet Yellow Springs
by Stanley Meisler
Commentary by Stanley Meisler
July 8, 1954
July 1954
Middletown, Ohio
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Shakespeare under-the-stars became Shakespeare under-the-dripping-canvas in Yellow Springs last night as the Antioch Players opened the second week of their festival with a performance of "Two Gentleman of Verona." The canvas, the festival’s chief innovation of 1954, was unrolled over the heads of an audience for the first time this summer. While their protection was neither windproof nor leakproof, enough hardy theater lovers and curiosity seekers stayed around to fill most of the dry and almost-dry seats for the playing of this deservedly little-known Shakespeare. "Two Gentleman of Verona" concerns Proteus, madly in love with Julia, and his sudden discovery that he is more madly in love with Sylvia, who in turn is even more madly in love with Valentine, the best friend of Proteus...
Shakespeare under-the-stars became Shakespeare under-the-dripping-canvas in Yellow Springs last night as the Antioch Players opened the second week of their festival with a performance of "Two Gentleman of Verona." The canvas, the festival’s chief innovation of 1954, was unrolled over the heads of an audience for the first time this summer. While their protection was neither windproof nor leakproof, enough hardy theater lovers and curiosity seekers stayed around to fill most of the dry and almost-dry seats for the playing of this deservedly little-known Shakespeare. "Two Gentleman of Verona" concerns Proteus, madly in love with Julia, and his sudden discovery that he is more madly in love with Sylvia, who in turn is even more madly in love with Valentine, the best friend of Proteus...
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