Great River Shakespeare Festival
The Great River Shakespeare Festival (GRSF) is a professional equity theatre company in Winona, Minnesota, a Mississippi River town in the southeastern part of the state. Starting in 2004, it has produced several simultaneous performances each summer, held at the Winona State University Performing Arts Center, with annual audiences of over 10,000. Its 16th season ends August 4, 2019.
GRSF 2015 season closing ceremony on the set of "Much Ado About Nothing"
GRSF 2015 company greeting the audience at the Winona State University Performing Arts Center
The festival offers educational opportunities, especially for youth, including an apprentice/intern production. It features many art, music, and other events, such as an annual sonnet contest with entries from around the world.
Professional company productions
- 2004 (debut year): The Winter's Tale and A Midsummer Night's Dream
- 2005: Richard III and Much Ado About Nothing
- 2006: Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night
- 2007: Macbeth and As You Like It
- 2008: The Merchant of Venice and The Taming of the Shrew
- 2009: The Tempest and Love's Labours Lost
- 2010: The Comedy of Errors, Othello, and The Daly News
- 2011: Henry IV, Part One, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Fantasticks
- 2012: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, King Lear, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)
- 2013: Twelfth Night, or What You Will, King Henry V
- 2014: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Hamlet, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead
- 2015: Romeo & Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, The Glass Menagerie
- 2016: As You Like It, Julius Caesar, Georama
- 2017: The Comedy of Errors, Richard III, Shipwrecked! An Entertainment: The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont, "An Illiad"
- 2018: All's Well That Ends Well, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare in Love, Venus in Fur
- 2019: Macbeth, Cymbeline, The Servant of Two Masters adapted by Beth Gardiner, No Child... by Nilaja Sun, White Rabbit, Red Rabbit
Plays by acting apprentices and production interns
- 2004: As You Like It
- 2005: Twelfth Night
- 2006: Cymbeline
- 2007: Julius Caesar
- 2008: Pericles
- 2009: Hamlet
- 2010: Titus Andronicus
- 2011: King Lear
- 2012: All's Well that Ends Well
- 2013: Macbeth
- 2014: Troilus and Cressida
- 2015: King John
- 2016: Coriolanus
- 2017: Henry VI
- 2018: The Merchant of Venice
- 2019: Love's Labour's Lost Additionally, the festival featured a performance of Henry V done by their summer class Shakespeare for Young Actors and hosted a performance of The Two Gentlemen of Verona done by the visiting group Shakespearean Youth Theatre.
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