Shakespeare is returning to Agawam Park in Southampton Village next week with a free performance of the bard’s “Twelfth Night.”
The one-night engagement will be much more low-key than the extravagant Hamptons Shakespeare Festival that offered productions in Agawam Park and Montauk until two years ago, but that’s the way director Jason Marr wants it.
“The aim is to keep it very simple, so ultimately it is the play itself that is center stage,” the director said in a recent interview.
Mr. Marr, who also directed the Hampton Theatre Company’s recent production of “Moon Over Buffalo,” said that having minimal sets and props makes it easy for his Hip to Hip Theatre Company to take the play from venue to venue and expand Shakespeare’s reach.
He co-founded Hip to Hip with his wife, Joy,... more
The one-night engagement will be much more low-key than the extravagant Hamptons Shakespeare Festival that offered productions in Agawam Park and Montauk until two years ago, but that’s the way director Jason Marr wants it.
“The aim is to keep it very simple, so ultimately it is the play itself that is center stage,” the director said in a recent interview.
Mr. Marr, who also directed the Hampton Theatre Company’s recent production of “Moon Over Buffalo,” said that having minimal sets and props makes it easy for his Hip to Hip Theatre Company to take the play from venue to venue and expand Shakespeare’s reach.
He co-founded Hip to Hip with his wife, Joy,... more
