The Traveling Players began as an inspiration of some actors and artists from Augsburg College and Shakespeare & Company, a repertory outdoor summer theater in White Bear Lake. Our goal is to take a similar approach to Shakespeare, presenting a family-friendly production that does not exhaust attention spans. We present plays without an intermission in an outdoor setting and carefully cut them to run about an hour.
Taken from the book
All the World’s a Stage,
by Michael Bender, the term, “The Traveling Players” describes the two-year period in Shakespeare’s life when London theaters closed to stop the spread of the Plague, and he and his fellow actors packed a wagon and traveled across the English countryside performing.
