This year, seeing a live performance of a Shakespearean play will be more than a midsummer night’s dream. Shakespeare Dallas is back at Samuell-Grand Park’s amphitheater in Dallas with a new summer season for Bard lovers.
The summer season begins with The War of the Roses, a staged reading of Shakespeare’s history plays including Henry VI Part I, Henry VI Part II, Henry VI Part III and Richard III. The reading stretches over one weekend only, May 22 and 23.
Raphael Parry, Shakespeare Dallas’ executive and artistic director, is performing in The War of the Roses, discovering new aspects of English history.
“Something that’s been fascinating to me is how bloody the English monarchy was. It’s insane,” Parry said. “It’s a bloodbath. It’s really intense and it’s English history. Shakespeare spiced it up a little bit but it’s all basically fact that this is what happened during the period of the War of the Roses.”
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