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...York City, Central Park: Joseph Papp's excellent free Shakespeare group in Richard...
...York City, Central Park: Joseph Papp's excellent free Shakespeare Festival with A Midsummer Night's Dream...
...words of Elizabethan Scholar Marchette Chute, "bright, swift Shakespeare, overacted, rather like a poster, as it has to be out of doors; the great thing is that it brings Shakespeare back to his original, wonderfully motley audience." And it brings him back for nothing. In six seasons, Producer Joseph Papp's Shakespeare Festival has played to more than 600,000 people, never charging admission...
Celebrated Feud. "If a public library is free, why not a public theater?" asks Papp, whose schedule this year began with Much Ado About Nothing and will end with Richard II. Meeting his production costs with foundation grants and private contributions, attracting excellent young actors with little more than the promise of Shakespearean experience, Papp has managed to keep his plan alive against staggering odds-and the biggest odd of them all was former City Park Commissioner Robert Moses...
Five years ago, Papp, a Brooklyn-born trunkmaker's son, then working as a CBS stage manager, brought his Shakespeareans out of a Lower East Side Sunday-school room and began drawing crowds to an amphitheater in Manhattan's East River Park. He moved the following year to Central Park with fine productions of Two Gentlemen of Verona, Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth, settling down with apparent permanence and the blessing of Moses. But before long, a celebrated feud arose in which the commissioner tried to force Papp to charge admission, claiming that festival audiences were damaging Central...