“Is this a dagger I see before me? NO! ‘Tis a fluffy kitten!”
With more half-hour stories than can fit into a single festival day, you’ll never be bored with the Bard. Your faire day can have any three or four sets, including:
Romeo & Juliet: The Flying Implement of Doom Edition!
Twelfth Night & the Three Bears!
The Hamlet Xmas Special!
The Tempest: A 3-Hour Tour (A 3-Hour Tour)!
Titus Andronicus: Ya Know — For Kids!
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Gaye Olde Tyme!
Julius Caesar: Beware the Ides of March of the Penguins!
Macbeth: Death by Fluffy Kittens!
“Beware the Ides of March of the Penguins … whatever that means!”
Join your friendly, neighborhood Shakespeare – Renaissance Festival Awards winner Favorite Comedy Act (2021) & Favorite Child-Friendly Act (2018, 2019) – as he takes you on audience-interactive adventures full of merriment: sword fights, mistaken identities, star-cross’d lovers, flying implements of doom, musical numbers, being pursued by a bear, and …death by fluffy kittens! The Shakespearean adventures are zany performances shaped to be fun for everyone!
“I just can’t decide what to perform!”
“Hey! You! With the face!”
Shakespeare is always on the lookout for the stars of his next show. He’s in the lanes engaging directly with your guests to recruit them to be actors trodding the boards of The Tempest, or at least to be an interactive audience member. All of the shows involve everybody!
Actor Dan Kostelec, creator of Shakespeare Approves!, is a 20+ year veteran of renaissance faires and festivals, beginning as a member of the Blackfryars and Bachanalians acting companies at the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire and starting his one-person Shakespeare show in 2006 and taking it since then around the country (and to Scotland!) to renaissance festivals, including:
The New Jersey Renaissance Faire
The Virginia Renaissance Faire
Midsummer Fantasy Renaissance Faire The New York Renaissance Faire
The Connecticut Renaissance Faire Mayfaire on the Green
New York Capital District Renaissance Faire Scarborough Renaissance Festival
Oklahoma Renaissance Festival Renaissance Festival of Central Florida
The Louisiana Renaissance Festival The Maine Renaissance Faire
Pocono Mountain Renaissance Faire Adirondack Renaissance Fantasy Festival
Rome Renaissance Revels Delaware Renaissance Faire
Philadelphia Renaissance Faire Robin Hood’s Medieval Faire
In addition to performing, Dan has also served as cast director and writer for Robin Hood’s Medieval Faire, the Connecticut Renaissance Faire, entertainment coordinator for the Philadelphia Renaissance Faire, and entertainment director for the Scarborough Renaissance Festival.
All press kit photos by David Anthony Wayne Anderson