Shakespeare Comes to Clinton this August

The following press release was provided by Laura Attanasio, Artistic Director, Kidz Konnection , Youth Theater and Communications Programs for the CT Shoreline:

The Shoreline Actors Collective proudly presents a third year of Shakespeare in the Gardens at Old Brick, Clinton For the third straight year, The Shoreline Actors Collective, the professional acting troupe out of Kidz Konnection will team up with The Clinton Historical Society to offer a Shakespeare in the Park type event with Shakespeare's Macbeth. 

As Kidz Konnection has grown and continued in its success over the years, so have it's actors.  To accommodate the growing number of young adult and adult actors, Kidz Konnection formed The Shoreline Actors Collective (SAC).  Along with offering continued quality performing opportunities to a maturing group of young people, it's mission has been to provide community outreach educating and entertaining the shoreline with rich, moving theater. 

Since 2011, SAC has offered it's productions to the HCH library, Chamard Vineyard, Clinton Historical Society Graveyard tours, Christmas in Clinton, area churches, and the upcoming Clinton 350th Celebration.  The SACtors have been rehearsing since May developing a compelling theatrical experience from one of Shakespeare's darkest and most powerful tragedies, Macbeth. 

With Parker Wallis, of Deep River, incoming Freshman to New York University Steinhardt Department of Music and Performing Arts, as Lord Macbeth, and Delaney Macbain, a rising senior at Old Saybrook High School as Lady Macbeth, the cast boasts powerful acting.  There will be plenty of stunt sword fighting and deliciously creepy scenes with the mysterious witches, to excite your whole family. 

The story takes place in Scotland and centers around Lord Macbeth whose desire for power becomes so strong he chooses evil to bolster his position more quickly and rise to King of Scotland.  His moral descent eventually unravels his strength and with the witches and his own wife, Lady Macbeth prodding him along, he ends up losing everything that has given his life meaning before losing his own life. 

This event is set in the beautifully manicured gardens of the Clinton Historical Society, 103 East Main St, Clinton, also known as Old Brick.  The 1750 home, the oldest brick home between New Haven and New London, originally owned by Elisha White serves as a museum today with beautiful antique furnishings, toys and quilts and old paintings, and will be open for touring during the event.  Bathrooms are also available in the home. The Buell Tool Museum, also on the grounds, house early tools and machines used by the Buel family whose ancestors were among Clinton's first settlers.  

Shoreline Actors Collective invites you to join them for this free event, Saturday, August 17 at 5:00pm and Sunday, August 18 at 2:00pm and experience Shakespeare at its best!  Bring a picnic, lawn chairs/blankets and your bug spray, and discover why Kidz Konnection has been dubbed Connecticut's best community theater! 

Rain dates:  Saturday rain date, Monday, August 19 at 5:00pm; Sunday rain date, Tuesday, August 20 at 5:00pm.  For more information, go to http://www.kidzkonnectionct.org/, call 860-227-2363 or email llwa@yahoo.com.