It's time to Brush Up Your Shakespeare!
Attend, dear audience, a tale most strange and deep,
Where tempests rage not just o’er sea, but in the minds that wake from sleep.
Three men confined within a boat, adrift in thought and tide,
As they await the shark—yet lo! the beast doth oft not bide.
'Tis Jaws, the film, still in the womb of strife and storm,
With actors bound by salt and script, ere the great white beast take form.
Robert, Roy, and young Dreyfuss spar with jest, with drink, with fear,
As tempers flare and truths emerge, and fragile masks grow clear.
No fish appears—but tension swells, more fearsome than the sea,
For ‘tis not the shark that breaks—but men, and what they see.
A play of wit and woe, of fame’s cruel, fickle light,
Where monsters oft wear human shapes, and day be darker than the night.
Directed by Jim Yelton, performances will be June 19th through 22nd and June 26th through 29th. For more information, visit Maplewoodbarn.org, or follow us on Facebook. Pack a chair, your favorite blanket, and join us at the Barn for a night of theatre under the stars!