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10/4/99

SHENANDOAH SHAKESPEARE EXPRESS AT SLU OCT. 18-24

CANTON -- The Shenandoah Shakespeare Express will be in residence 
at St. Lawrence University October 18 through 24, performing The 
Merchant of Venice, Macbeth and Francis Beaumont's The Knight of 
the Burning Pestle.
	Tickets for all shows are $3 and are available at the E.J. 
Noble University Center main desk and the Brewer Bookstore.
	The schedule for the shows -- which all take place in the 
Common Room of Sykes Residence Hall -- follows:
	- Monday, October 18, 7:30 p.m., The Merchant of Venice
	- Wednesday, October 20, 7:30 p.m., The Knight of the Burning Pestle
	- Thursday, October 21, 7:30 p.m., Macbeth
	- Friday, October 22, 7:30 p.m., The Knight of the Burning Pestle
	- Saturday, October 23, 7:30 p.m., The Merchant of Venice
	- Saturday, October 23, midnight, The Knight of the Burning Pestle
	- Sunday, October 24, 1:30 p.m., Macbeth (full-text children's performance)
	The company will also present a workshop for children on Saturday, 
October 23, at 11 a.m. at the Canton Free Library.
	The Shenandoah Shakespeare Express, based in Virginia's Shenandoah 
Valley, features 11 actors, three plays and one simple idea: Shakespeare's 
plays work best when performed under the conditions for which they were 
originally designed -- on a bare stage, surrounded by audience members who 
share the same light with the actors, each of whom plays several roles. The 
group's goal is to strip away 400 years of accumulated theatrical clutter 
from Shakespeare productions and, in doing so, restore the original vitality 
of his plays.
	This year's tour marks SSE's first presentation of a Renaissance 
play by a contemporary of Shakespeare's, Francis Beaumont. The Knight of 
the Burning Pestle, a treasure of theatre and acting lore, is a rollicking 
comedy based on the premise that the Elizabethan/Jacobean audience is 
expected to be part of the play; it is for this reason the perfect choice 
for the SSE's first non-Shakespeare play from the English Renaissance.
	For more information, contact Professor of English Thomas Berger 
at 315-229-5134.

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