Festival of Shakespearean Plays
The state of Alabama hosts a very prestigious festival of Shakespeare’s works called the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, dubbed ASF.
The play festival rakes in at least more than 300,000 tourists and play-enthusiasts all around the country and probably the whole world. After all, it is one of the largest Shakespearean festivals (ranked sixth) in the world, being hosted in the Carolyn Blount Theatre.
Needless to say, it’s a festival that operates whole year round, backed by professionals and companies that would make at least one or two plays monthly, with a quarter of those plays being obviously that of William Shakespeare’s. A lot of the plays that they are featuring centers around the genre of classical and modern origins, with most of them being works from the Southern area.
The Festival had been failing at its beginning years. However, at the start of 1985, through the help of the Blount family, it was able to have a complex in a landscaped park; and was then established in the area for years and decades to come.
The festival is lovely and befitting of its label. It is well-founded and has a good name to it. For those wanting to practice their stage-acting skills, they have the Professional Actor Training program to assist aspiring players in the field.
The area surrounding the venue is quite modest as well. The Old Alabama town, which has at least fifty authentic 19th and 20th century buildings. They also have the Hank Williams Museum, an artifact museum all about the famous Williams. The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts which also boasts a goodly amount of things to see, like old American paintings and sculptures, usually of the Southern region and folk art.
The Cultural Park is also a nice sight to view. The park contains gardens by the famed landscape architect, Russell Page, using English-style architecture for the grounds and its famous lake. They also have statues, one famous would be the Puddle jumpers.
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