July 24
CAMP SHOWCASE
featuring our Shakesperience campers, ages 5 - 15
August 2
ANNUAL MEETING
Open to the public!
December 12
TWELFTH NIGHT
On Tap!
Castle in the Clouds
Moultonborough, NH
ROMEO & JULIET
Romeo & Juliet is the gateway to Shakespeare for so many, and we are delighted to bring our take on it to the region. Our production will explore how earnestness and eagerness collide in great joy, great tragedy, and above all, great hope. We’ll poke at some assumptions about this story, dig into just how awkward two teenagers can be, and seek subtle, deep truths about family, community, and love.
We’ve partnered once again with Castle in the Clouds to bring half of our performances not only onto their grounds but up to the Lucknow Mansion itself, with our playing space nestled in the back garden as well as – you guessed it – on the balcony. The other half of our run will return to Quimby Park in Sandwich, NH, our creative home base, where we are so grateful to rehearse and perform year after year.
As always, our cast features both new and familiar faces. Juliet is played by Eliana Weiss, who most recently graced our stage as Richard III in 2025. Romeo is played by company newcomer Beks Roen. The rest of this lively team includes Frederick Bickford, Chris Boldt, Liz Burdick, Shea Flanagan, Ethan Fifield, Noa Hellquist, Martha Nichols, Kailey Potter, Lucy Randall-Tapply, and Tom Shane. It is directed by Sarah Corbyn Woolf, who has worked on and off stage with the company since 2022, and stage managed by a pillar of our youth programming, Savannah Muzzey.
July 31, August 1, 8, 9
5:00 pm
Quimby Park in
Sandwich, NH
August 2, 5, 6, and 7
4:45 pm arrival
Castle in the Clouds in Moultonborough, NH
Staged Readings:
VIRAGOS
by Katherine E. Norman
June 26 and 27 at 5:00 pm
Sandwich Town Hall
"Women didn’t act in plays in Shakespeare’s England. For that, they had to go to France. 'Viragos' follows a group of young Englishwomen as they rehearse a play at The Institute—Mary Ward’s school for girls founded in France, 1609. Through their rehearsals, the girls test the boundaries of art, science, love, and politics, as the shadow of the Inquisition looms. Verbatim text illuminates this factually-inspired fiction of a true story too-long buried by history."
PARIS & JULIET
by Sarah Kate O'Haver
August 29 and 30 at 5:00 pm
Bearcamp Center, Tamworth
"Middle aged Romeo breaks banishment and returns to Verona to pursue a tawdry affair with his now-married, star-crossed paramour twenty years after (most of) the events in Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet."
The August 30 performance will feature a talkback between director (of this and our MainStage Romeo & Juliet) Sarah Corbyn Woolf and playwright Sarah Kate O'Haver.