FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Jackie Goneconti Gibbons
[email protected] We Players in partnership with the California State Parks presents Romeo & Juliet at Rancho Petaluma Adobe on Old Adobe Road in Sonoma County, CA by William Shakespeare Directed by Ava Roy Produced by Lauren D. Chavez and Ava Roy Original Score by Charlie Gurke We Players presents Romeo & Juliet August 12 September 25, 2016 tickets: $4580 3325 Adobe Rd, Petaluma, CA 94954 show times vary more information will be made available at: www.weplayers.org FEBRUARY 2, 2016: We Players (Artistic Director, Ava Roy; Managing Director, Lauren D. Chavez), will present Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet at the historic Rancho Petaluma Adobe State Historic Park in August/ September 2016. Continuing in We Players nearly 10 years of unprecedented partnership programming with the National Park Service and California State Parks the company will once again integrate a wellloved Shakespeare play into the environs at a national historic landmark. Rancho Petaluma Adobe is an undervisited and underappreciated park We Players, in partnership with the California State Parks, hopes to inspire locals to visit this backyard treasure and entice Bay Area residents to make the journey to wine country to experience this beloved story of starcrossed lovers set into the Adobe and surrounding grounds. Shakespeare 400: Companies the world over are honoring the 400 years since Shakespeare’s death in 1616. We Players is celebrating the anniversary with a return to Shakespeare after a year without the Bard in 2015. The company is well known for their siteintegrated productions of Shakespeare (Hamlet on Alcatraz, Macbeth at Fort Point, Twelfth Night at Hyde Street Pier) and in 2016 will explore passion, power, and adrenalinelust with a variety of special Romeo & Juliet inspired events throughout the greater Bay Area this spring and summer, followed by the fullscale production at Rancho Petaluma Adobe in late summer and fall.