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The Salamander Shakespeare Co. (formerly known as Shakespeare Young Company) productions are mounted throughout Ottawa in parks in July of each year, and at the National Arts Centre during the last week of July. While younger audiences may enjoy these productions, they are not intended as children’s theatre.
Local businesses, community associations, and recreation groups host the Salamander Shakespeare Co. performances in their communities. Hosting involves providing a venue and arranging for local press coverage and advertising for the show. If you would like to host a performance, please contact us.
Romeo & Juliet at RAW kicks off True North Tour
Six actors, a classic text. Watch true art explode in the concrete jungle.
All the love story, all the fights, all the power, in seventy minutes of action.
Salamander Shakespeare Co. brings Verona’s mean streets to the heart of the city.
RAW at the UNDERPASS kicks off the True North Tour, as Salamander Shakespeare Co. takes the show on the road. The tour will take the 70 minute version of the show with six actors to
Killaloe, Sudbury, Elliot Lake, Wikwemikong, Manitouwadge, Atikokan, Devlin, Kenora, Red Lake, Dryden and Sioux Lookout in August.
At THE UNDERPASS Saturday August 7, at 3 pm
Salamander Shakespeare Co. artists will bring entry-level acting workshops to Northern Ontario Youth on the True North Tour, which was made possible in part through Theatre Ontario's Youth Theatre Training Program, funded by the Ontario Arts Council.
Our Artists
Salamander Shakespeare Co. 2010 is Artem Barry, Patrick Blenkarn , Rosalind Crump, Lindsay Huebner, Darienne Lancaster, Anna Lewis, Garret Quirk , Danielle Savoie and William Somers. For The Death of Tybalt, the company is joined by Jonah Allingham who will also appear with St Lawrence Shakespeare Festival in July.
Both Romeo & Juliet and The Death of Tybalt are directed by Eleanor Crowder. Fight choreography is by Salamander Theatre’s Artistic Director Chris McLeod. Their collaboration has brought Ottawa audiences ten summers worth of outdoor Shakespeare. Music direction is by Rachel Eugster. Stage Management is by Melody Louie, herself a performer in those summers of work.
