Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival Celebrates 10 Years with 'Othello'
The Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival will continue its 10th anniversary celebration with performances of William Shakespeare’s Othello in Kingsmen Park beginning July 21 and continuing weekends through Aug. 6.
Othello, the ultimate love story of passion, betrayal, jealousy and death, is one of Shakespeare's greatest stories. The Moor Othello, a conquering and powerful general, marries the beautiful young Desdemona against her father's wishes. Plotting by Othello's trusted but treacherous lieutenant, Iago, turns Othello's love for Desdemona to all-consuming jealousy. Set in the exotic world of Mediterranean Italy and Cyprus, this production will fill the Kingsmen stage with passion and spectacle.
Directed by CLU theatre arts professor Dr. Michael Arndt, Othello follows the production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in this year’s festival.
Arndt, cofounder of the Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival and the Kingsmen Shakespeare Company, has directed other shows for the festival including Love’s Labours Lost, The Tempest, MacBeth, Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It and The Two Gentlemen of Verona. He has received numerous awards for teaching the arts, including CLU’s President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Thousand Oaks Arts Commission Certificate for Excellence in the Arts, the CLU Community Leader’s Association William Hamm Award, which he shares with his wife, Vicki. He also was a recipient of the 2006 Excellence in Theatre Education Award from Region VIII of the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival.
Othello opens on Friday, July 21, and will continue on July 22, 23, 28, 29, 30, Aug. 4, 5, and 6.
Admission is $10 for adults, free for those under the age of 18. Lawn box seating is available for $65 and $50. For ticket and lawn box purchase information, call (805) 493-3455 or check the Web site at