page_title: Shakespeare in the Arb
section_title: Performances
hierarchical_section_title: Shakespeare in the Arb / Performances
caption_attribution_description: English: Shakespeare in the Arb. Two actors perform a scene from "The Tempest" in Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor.
context_page_description: Shakespeare in the Arb is an annual event, presented in the open, in Nichols Arboretum. Nichols Arboretum is a 123-acre heavily wooded park, with large landscape lawns surrounded by the woods, a river, and steep hills. The plays are moving events, with both performers and audience moving from location to location within the park as the play progresses. At each location a segment of the play is performed. The plays begin in the early evening, and are put on near the summer solstice as no artificial lighting is used.
  The park is near to the University of Michigan, and downtown Ann Arbor Michigan.
context_section_description: Each year one play is presented. Most years, three weeks (Thurs-Sun) of performances are given. They all begin fours hours before sunset, at 6:30 p.m. local time (EDT). Each performance takes about 2.5 hours. The production travels from spot to spot within the arboretum to create the different scenes. "As one critic commented, 'The actors used the vastness of its Arb[oretum] stage to full advantage, making entrances from behind trees, appearing over rises and vanishing into the woods.'"
  The arboretum is a public park, situated in the center of an urban area, next to a railroad track, and a large medical center. Thus performances can be interrupted by trains, medevac helicopters, and other park visitors. The weather is a factor, with large rainstorms always possible.
caption: The Tempest being performed in 2007
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