2020
4/9/20 - Message about our 2020 Summer Season:
We hope you and yours are healthy and safe during this unprecedented time in our history.
In order to ensure the safety of our community, and not knowing how soon people will be ready to congregate for performances and other events, we are postponing our production of The Merry Wives of Windsor until summer 2021.
The Merry Wives of Windsor had already been cast, the design process was well under way and we were preparing to go into rehearsals before the COVID-19 pandemic. Performances were scheduled for The Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro, The Circus Lawn at Shelburne Museum, The Coach Barn at Shelburne Farms and Shelburne Vineyard. With no specific date in sight for ending social distancing, and in response to the financial effects COVID-19 is having on the ability for arts organizations to secure funds needed to produce their work, VSF joins many in postponing or cancelling productions or seasons.
Artists are nothing if not resilient. We have witnessed theatre friends and collaborators near and far continuing to find compassionate and innovative ways to keep the spirit of the arts alive, even in these most challenging of circumstances. This gives us hope. We are reimagining what our 2020 season might offer later in the year - but we will pause on preparation for the big production until next year.
Bringing Shakespeare's 400-year-old plays to life today gives us the extraordinary opportunity to interpret his universal and provocative themes through a contemporary lens. In difficult times, we are all looking to the arts for salvation, catharsis, connection, and to reflect on our humanity.
We are optimistic about the impact the arts can continue to have on our beloved Vermont community when we get through this crisis.
Stay strong friends, we look forward to when we can be together again.
Jena and John, Co-Artistic Directors
We hope you and yours are healthy and safe during this unprecedented time in our history.
In order to ensure the safety of our community, and not knowing how soon people will be ready to congregate for performances and other events, we are postponing our production of The Merry Wives of Windsor until summer 2021.
The Merry Wives of Windsor had already been cast, the design process was well under way and we were preparing to go into rehearsals before the COVID-19 pandemic. Performances were scheduled for The Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro, The Circus Lawn at Shelburne Museum, The Coach Barn at Shelburne Farms and Shelburne Vineyard. With no specific date in sight for ending social distancing, and in response to the financial effects COVID-19 is having on the ability for arts organizations to secure funds needed to produce their work, VSF joins many in postponing or cancelling productions or seasons.
Artists are nothing if not resilient. We have witnessed theatre friends and collaborators near and far continuing to find compassionate and innovative ways to keep the spirit of the arts alive, even in these most challenging of circumstances. This gives us hope. We are reimagining what our 2020 season might offer later in the year - but we will pause on preparation for the big production until next year.
Bringing Shakespeare's 400-year-old plays to life today gives us the extraordinary opportunity to interpret his universal and provocative themes through a contemporary lens. In difficult times, we are all looking to the arts for salvation, catharsis, connection, and to reflect on our humanity.
We are optimistic about the impact the arts can continue to have on our beloved Vermont community when we get through this crisis.
Stay strong friends, we look forward to when we can be together again.
Jena and John, Co-Artistic Directors
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