Tonight’s taste of Shakespeare fundraiser for free summer performance

Tonight’s taste of Shakespeare fundraiser for free summer performance

PORT ANGELES — “As You Love It,” an evening of Shakespeare with food and wine, will raise money for this summer’s free Shakespeare in the Woods production in Webster’s Woods.

The Port Angeles Fine Arts Center and Camaraderie Cellars will present the fundraiser from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. tonight at Camaraderie, 334 Benson Road.

Tickets — which include food, Camaraderie wines, nonalcoholic beverages and entertainment — are $30 in advance via the fine arts center website, www.PAFAC.org. If any remain, they will be sold at the door for $35.

Actors and crew from across Clallam County will stage the romantic comedy “As You Like It,” July 20-Aug. 5, with performances at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings. Admission will be free.

Tonight’s event is to raise funds so that the show can be offered free, said said Jessica Elliott, executive director of the fine arts center.

Actors will perform a quartet of scenes from Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew,” “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” “Macbeth” and, to tantalize the audience, “As You Like It.”

Performers will include Pat Owens and Anna Andersen in “Merry Wives,” Josh McLean and Andersen in “Macbeth” and Josh Sutcliffe and Sharah Truett in “Taming.”

Andersen, artistic director of Shakespeare in the Woods, will pair with Cheryl Koenig, director of this summer’s play, for the comic scene from “As You Like It.”

The menu, along with Camaraderie’s varietals, features Self’s Catering of Forks’ “mushrooms to die for,” balsamic meatballs, blackberry mousse in wineglasses, caramel macchiato cake, creme brûlée and “over-the-top brownies.”

To find out more about Shakespeare in the Woods and other Port Angeles Fine Arts Center activities, visit the website or the Shakespeare in the Woods Facebook page or phone 360-457-3532. The center, is open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays at 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd.

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