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Shakespeare double feature planned for Agawam Park

Publication: The East Hampton Press & The Southampton Press
By Brendan O'Reilly   Aug 11, 2009 12:21 PM
The Hip to Hip Theatre Company is returning next week to Agawam Park to put on not just one free Shakespeare play, but two.

The Queens-based troupe, led by Jason Marr of Long Island City, performed the bard’s “Twelfth Night” at the Southampton Village park last summer for a one-night-only event, and next Thursday evening, August 20, Hip to Hip will put on “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “Romeo and Juliet” in a one-evening repertory—one after the other—with a short break in between for the audience members to have a picnic dinner in the park.

“It’s going to be spectacular, and it’s going to be a real treat for the village to get a chance to see these two plays back-to-back,” said Mr. Marr, Hip to Hip’s president and artistic director. “We... more

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