AS YOU LIKE IT
Playing at:	MOUNT ROYAL’S SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK
Plays until:	August 25, 2007
Reviewed by:	Louis B.
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William Shakespeare’s pastoral comedy As You Like It is a frothy meditation on love, betrayal and redemption.

Half the characters in the play are banished to the lush Arden Forest. The other half go in search of them so there’s a great deal of merry nonsense in that mini Garden of Eden.

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A CLOSER WALK WITH PATSY CLINE
Playing at:	Stagewest
Plays until:	September 9, 2007
Reviewed by:	Louis B.
Official website:	www.stagewestcalgary.com
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Fans of country music legend Patsy Cline would be crazy to miss Stage West’s A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline.

It features a dynamite performance from Devra Straker as the first real female superstar of country music.

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MACBETH
Playing at:	MOUNT ROYAL’S SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK
Plays until:	August 25, 2007
Reviewed by:	Louis B.
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In the theatre world, William Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth is almost as feared as it is revered.

Actors, producers and directors refer to it as The Scottish Play in fear they might invoke the curse that is supposed to accompany calling it by its real name.

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Twelfth Night
Playing at:	Pumphouse Outdoor Space
Plays until:	July 21, 2007
Theatre Company:	The Shakespeare Company
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Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is a gleefully improbable slapstick comedy.

Director Iam Coulter and her talented company have mined the pure gold in Shakespeare’s story of lovers, fools and madmen.

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