Two Gentlemen of Verona
North Fulton Drama Club is thrilled to close our fifth year on the lawn at Historic Barrington Hall with an Old West take on William Shakespeare’s Two Gentlemen of Verona — a classic comedy of contested love, over-protective fathers and mistaken identity.
Friday & Saturday Evenings September 17th through October 2
4pm Matinee Sunday, September 19th
Seating begins at 7pm; Show begins at 8pm (more or less dusk)
General Admission: FREE
Reserved Seating: $40.00 for a table to seat 6.
For more information call 678-561-BARD or visit our Reservations page.
Location:
Barrington Hall
535 Barrington Drive
Roswell, GA 30075
Map:
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Wait, I am totally unfamiliar with Two Gentlemen of Verona. What is this all about?
Excellent question. While there are many repositories of information about Shakespeare on the internet, please allow us to point you toward the Folger Library’s very excellent synopsis of Two Gents:
Even though the word “gentlemen” in its title would suggest that this play’s heroes are adults, the play is much more intelligible if we think of them as boys—boys who, as the play opens, are about to leave home on their own for the first time. Their longtime friendship has been dealt a double blow: one of the boys has developed a crush on a girl, though he hasn’t yet told her that he likes her; the other is being sent off by his father to the equivalent of a boys’ finishing school. In the course of the play’s action, both boys make the journey away from home, and both behave in ways that get them in terrible trouble.
Funding for this program is provided by the Fulton County Board of Commissioners under the guidance of the Fulton County Arts Council.
