Anytime you get the chance to see one of Shakespeare's plays performed live, do it. Anytime you get the chance to see one of his plays in an outdoor theater, with multiple stage positions, that just happens to be in the sculpture garden at the New Orleans Museum of Art, you should jump at the chance! This Friday, the nolaproject is putting on one of the bard's best comedies, "As You Like It." The nolaproject is a theatre company in New Orleans that is dedicated to high quality performances of new plays as well as the classics. They live by the motto, "all the world's a stage," and demonstrate this through performing their plays not in a theatre house, but in obscure places, places one wouldn't think to happen upon a Shakespearean troop performing, places such as inside the foyer at the New Orleans Museum of Art, or outside in the sculpture garden where inanimate objects can enjoy the performance as well.
If the shear uniqueness of which this company performs was not enough to draw you to a show, perhaps the extremely low price of $16.00 will. Any theater goer would laugh if you told them that they could see a high quality show for $16.00; and if you told them that it was outside, in a unique setting for still only $16.00, they would turn around and walk away in disbelief. These are the types of programs that New Orleans should foster more often. They teach our youth about the wonders of make believe, that if you dream it, you can do it, and that really, all the world is a stage so go out and perform. Too few kids and young adults these days can tell you who Shakespeare was, and a play or two of his. It is this lost sense of the past that makes the future of our city seem not as bright, because if you don't know where you came from, how can you know where you're going?
Here's a video from one of NolaProject's plays in the Fall:
Along with their website: http://nolaproject.com/company.php
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