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Article: Shakespeare's past is their present: Festival organizers want their audiences to enjoy a trip from 1597 to today during 'Merry Wives.
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- The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL)
- Article date:
- April 1, 2007
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Byline: Elizabeth Maupin
Apr. 1--Everybody knows what Shakespeare's plays are supposed to look like.
Men in tights. Women in ruffs. Theatergoers standing in a crush at the foot of the stage -- and throwing insults and raw vegetables from the peanut galleries.
That's our idea of what Shakespeare would have seen near the turn of the 17th century, when his plays were first produced. But Jim Helsinger wants Orlando audiences to know what it was really like.
So when the Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival opens Shakespeare's comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor on Friday night, audiences at the Margeson Theater will sit in broad daylight, as ...