Posted AT 5:27 AM EST on 25/07/08
Summer theatre offers up frivolous fun – and I think I like it
J. KELLY NESTRUCK
From Friday's Globe and Mail
In most cultural quadrants, silly season is upon us. Normally sane film critics have gone batty debating the Oscar hopes of the latest big-screen Joker, while Canadian television critics have pinned the hopes of a nation on the umpteenth show about an elite police force.
Theatre is largely immune to this summer frivolity. While readers peel open murder mysteries on the beach, it is Shakespeare who pops up in parks across the country.
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