Special production to benefit this summer's Shakespeare in the park

Skidmore’s Janet Kinghorn Bernhard Theater will be the site of a special benefit performance of Shakespeare’s Soldier’s:  Dogs of War, at 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 31.

Adapted by David Bunce and directed by David Baecker, the performance is presented by the Saratoga Shakespeare Company and produced with support from Skidmore’s Department of Theater.

Tickets are $35 adults, $12 students, and may be purchased online here or from the theater box office at (518) 580-5439.

Originally conceived and adapted by David Soloman and David Bunce at the Theatre Institute at Sage, Shakespeare’s Soldiers: Dogs of War is a passionate one-man performance about William Shakespeare and his obsession with war. Bunce,  (who earned acclaim performing Macduff last summer in Saratoga Shakespeare’s production of Macbeth) molded the production by adapting Shakespeare’s texts. The play weaves together Shakespeare’s treatment of military conflict through the voices of Shakespeare’s soldiers from Othello to Henry VIII, and Macbeth to The Merchant of Venice.

All proceeds from this evening will help fund Saratoga Shakespeare’s free 2015 production, Love’s Labour’s Lost, scheduled to be performed in which runs in historic Congress Park from July 27 to Aug. 2. Saratoga Shakespeare Company is a 501(c)3 corporation, and the only professional theater company in the Capital Region dedicated to providing free, accessible, professional productions to the community.

For additional information please email Barbara Opitz.