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Annette Gardner, Klara Varga and Nancy Schwalm present an animated reading of The Three Witches 'Double, double, toil and trouble' incantation from Macbeth.
Lincoln English Teacher Phil Reed reads the St. Crispin's Day Speech from Shakespeare's 'Henry V'.
Mary Dietz engages the crowd.
The group breaks the ice by recites a litany of phrases created by Shakespeare that have become part of our every day parlance.
The group performs a bit of a skit in which Phil Reed finds himself in a pickle over as each person has their own suggestion regarding the proper word to emphasize in the first line of Hamlet's 'To be or not to be' soliloquy
Stacey Berquist and mary Dietz recite an innuendo laden seen between Petruchio and Katherine in 'the Taming of the Shrew.'
A group of seven performers who took the stage at the Delaney Mill TeePee Burner Wednesday, Aug. 7 to read some of their favorite passages from the various plays and poems of William Shakespeare for "Shakespeare in the Wild"
Klara Varga of Lincoln, a devotee of Shakespeare, worked with Mary Dietz and Stacey Berquist, a retired high school theater teacher from Great Falls, to bring a group of like-minded fans together for the presentation. Varga persuaded Annette Gardner, Nancy Schwalm, Liz Cain, Lincoln English Teacher Phil Reed and Paige Havener, the Montana Conservation Crops trails intern at the ranger district, to joined in on the fun.
"It's kind of interesting," Schwalm said. "I got involved because of Klara, She's in my book club. We were reading Hamlet. She said, 'since you're so into Shakespeare, (I was like whoa, whoa, I don't think I'm that into Shakespeare) would you be willing to do this, and I said yes."
Berquist, who describes himself as "a fellow who's passionate about Shakespeare," started a group reading of selected passages as part of a celebration of Shakespeare's life a few years ago. He said Sculpture in the Wild President Becky Garland heard about it and got in touch with him about doing something similar here.
"Mary Dietz and I came down and worked with them a couple times and they're doing great," he said of the group Varga got together. "I'm really impressed with them. They're having fun."
Berquist, a man with a booming voice, said he loves the tepee burner "The acoustics are phenomenal. I've been doing this for 50 years and to turn my voice loose in there is really fun."
He admitted that the acoustics of the structure, while they're great at amplify his voice, are a bit odd, causing some folks to have difficulty hearing some of the less forceful presentations.
"But I think people are enjoying it. It's really cool.," he said.
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