June 4, 2025 • 33 mins
Talked with Elizabeth Dashiell, Managing Producer, Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival. They are celebrating 35 years of Shakespeare by the Sea performances in the community. Their mission is, "to enhance the cultural quality of life for visitors and residents of Palm Beach County through accessible, original, and educational cultural programs and productions of Shakespearean works."
This Summer they will performing, The Winter's Tale. It's a play about the transformative power of love and forgiveness. It will be running July 10 – 13 and 17 – 20, 2025, Thursdays through Sundays at the Seabreeze Amphitheater in Carlin Park, located at 750 South, Florida A1A, Jupiter, FL 33477. All performances start at 8pm and are FREE with a suggested donation of $5 per person. Listeners can find out more information at www.pbshakespeare.org.
This Summer they will performing, The Winter's Tale. It's a play about the transformative power of love and forgiveness. It will be running July 10 – 13 and 17 – 20, 2025, Thursdays through Sundays at the Seabreeze Amphitheater in Carlin Park, located at 750 South, Florida A1A, Jupiter, FL 33477. All performances start at 8pm and are FREE with a suggested donation of $5 per person. Listeners can find out more information at www.pbshakespeare.org.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
iHeart Communities presents Palm Beach Treasure Coast Perspective which Dead Napp.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Good morning, welcome to Palm Beach Treasure Coast Perspective. I'm
your host, Dev Nepp. Thanks for joining me this weekend
and joining me in the studio. I have Elizabeth Deshiel.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Good morning, Good morning, Dev. It is so wonderful to
be back here.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I'm also glad you could come in. It is time
for some summer fun people. So school's heading out. There's
on you you can get the kids.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
I know.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Oxbow Eco Center has a bunch of different programs coming
up on starting June sixteenth through the twentieth. This one's
called Art Cherry, so it's art and archery, two big
things kills and grown kids too. We still be taking
our archery class yet we have to still Well, you
took your first one. I still have to take the
first ones. I can catch up with you.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Yes, And wasn't there another place that was offering archery?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yeah? I know as Saint Lucy's got it going on
this summer. They got smart about this for the kids.
So they have a cool thing called Wreck and Roll
and returning this summer. Lots of summer fun and they
go to different parks in different areas throughout the community
and it's going to happen throughout ju June and July,
and it's part of Saint Lucy County's Parks and Recreation Department.
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All different kinds of fun activities and it's designed for
kids who may not be at a regular summer camp,
so it kind of comes to their neighborhood where they are,
which I think is a good idea.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
That is fantastic because not every parent is able to
afford a summer camp. B provide the transportation to and
from the summer camp every day.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Well, and that's what they've discovered. So they're like trying
to meet yet another need in the community, which I
think they're doing a good job. Like Tuesdays from ten
to two, they're going to be the Roy and Jennis
McGriff Park, which was formerly the Sheraton Plaza Park. Wednesdays
ten to eleven is Longwood Tennis Courts and that's going
to be the archery day, folks, but that one on
your calendar, so that's where they're going to start adding
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the archery and it's ten dollars a class for the
Archery to send an email to Susan Lyons, so it's
Lions at Saint Lucico dot org and she'll get you
on the list. So when there's an opening, she'll let
you know. Super popular Thursdays it's Collins Park. Fridays from
ten to two's Paradise Park, so they go throughout the community,
which I think is just super fun. If you need
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more information, you can always call Eric. His number is
seven seven to two four six two seventeen ninety one
and he's happy to give you all the details on that.
So I know you have lots of fun. Like I'm
gonna call them culture things.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Yes, I was thinking, it's great you have the kids,
you have the summer. But we were talking about it earlier.
It's it may be brutally hot, swampy to some people
who aren't used to it, but gosh, it's so nice
to kind of have the place back to us. And
you know, more and more people are staying and living
year round, and the cultural organizations throughout Palm Beach County
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have really upped their offerings to meet the demand for
having these year round residents. That includes the Kravis Center
And in case you did not know. The Palm Beach
improv is actually now located inside the Kravis Center, So
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there have been the best comedians and entertainers coming through
there almost every other week, and we have in June
twenty seventh and twenty.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Eight Jeff Dye.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
He is this comedian who is all about positivity. But
most people might know him from the new game show
that's on Fox called Who the Bleep Is That? And
he's currently filming his newest comedy special, The Last Cowboy
in La. But he's been in a number of series
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and shows. He's an actor, a host, and he will
be at the Kravis Center June twenty seventh and twenty
eighth at seven pm and nine thirty pm. Also, we're
so used to our theaters being dark, but the Kravis
Center is bringing Broadway. A full Broadway production is coming
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this June June twenty fourth through the twenty ninth with
Ain't Too Proud, The Life and Times of the Temptations,
and it's fantastic. It's all the music get Ready, Ain't
Too Proud, my Girl, all the music that you know
and love, but it tells the whole story of about
how the Temptations came to be the Temptations and you know,
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I know a lot of people are fans of Jersey Boys.
Just think about that. But Motown and that is coming again.
You can get all those lineups at the Kravis Center, Cravis,
that's k R A v Is.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
There's Nosey there.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
But there's also something else coming to the Cravis this summer.
Oh Tommy, Tommy Yes. On June twelfth, Ballet pomp Beach,
that's the county's only professional ballet company, is having their
annual summer soiree. And they've done it in the past
in the Ballet pomp Beach studios, but now it's going
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to be presented in the Rinker Theater at the Cravis
Center and it'll be all set up cabaret style. There
will be delicious light bites and tasty cocktails or mocktails
for those that prefer, and you get to mix and
mingle and get to know these outstanding athletes, the members
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of the ballet company while they then get up and
do presentations of scenes from next season.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Oh cool.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
So every year they play a little game where the
dancers come out and do these beautiful dances and the
audience has to guess what production it's from and in
the end, that's the big anounce of what's going to
be coming next season for Ballet pomp Beach again that
is June twelfth, and you go.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
To Kravis dot org for tickets, so you're not going
to tell me what it is for next year. Oh,
I gotta go. Okay, I see who you are. You
have to come to the summer so well, right, I
like it. I like it of course, like you said,
they can go to Cravist dot org and get the
tickets for that there as well. Right, very nice, And
I like how they're bringing eight Too Proud during the summer.
It is Pravis is definitely mixing things up during the summer,
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like you said, rather than go dark, they come up
with cool ideas of ways to continue to serve the community.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
And you know, they're not the only ones. The Norton
Museum of Art, which is the largest fine art museum
in the entire state of Florida, and every time I go,
I'm just in awe over the works they have there.
This is a summer tradition for those of US long
term residents. They have summer at the Norton and residents
receive free admission on Saturdays starting now through August thirtieth,
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But if you're a resident of Palm Beach County you
can go to the Norton and they have lots of
things coming up, including the Juneteenth Community Day from eleven
am to four pm on June fourteenth. It's an intergenerational
event that celebrates freedom and spotlights the African American experience.
They'll have live music, dance, gallery, talks on art by
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actual other African American artists. There will be storytelling and
hands on art making activities, which is so phenomenal. I
love that this one is on Saturday, of course, but
they also have their Friday Nights Art after Dark, which
is when you get the tours and the hands on things.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Just check out Norton dot org.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
That's NRTN dot org for all details.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
And just fyi, we've talked to Scott from Scott from
the Norton before and he wants to remind everybody that
that first Art after Dark of the month is the
Jazz Night. So for o jazz lovers, that's an art
after dark you want to make sure you get your
tickets for.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
That is so fantastic because jazz lovers really love their jazz,
but you know, when you go specifically looking for it,
it's a little bit challenging to find.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
There was the Bamboo Room.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
I'm still waiting on Sunset Lounge to reopen, which of course.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Is again Norton's awesome. They see a need in the community,
they find a way to meet it, which I like.
I love that. And speaking of June teenth, I know
Spady Cultural Museum is doing a great presentation.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Yes, they are the June teeenth Spady House Party and
it's actually hosted by the Delray Beach Chamber and that
takes place on Tuesday, June seventeenth from five thirty pm
to seven pm, where you'll enjoy by its strengths and
music while celebrating one hundred years.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Of the Space House.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
And this Bady is very important to the Black community
history here in Palm Beach County. The exhibitions they have,
the lectures they have, it is a just a wealth
of information and a beautiful place to visit.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
And of course I've talked with Edwin and Charlie before
from this baby, they want to remind folks again because
it's a swampy, hot summer. Again, they have the lovely
air conditioned a bus tour, so you can sign up
for them, but you need to call and get your
tickets and sign up with the museum, and they take
you through a little tour of historic del Rey and
tell the stories, which I think is so cool. So
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it's a really cool way of making Black history, which
is our history, but exposing folks to it. I absolutely
love that.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
And you know, there is so much history that it
may be hard to recognize here in Palm Beach County.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
We have a rich and a very diverse history. I know,
new development makes it.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
It seemed like nobody cares about it, but there are
these organizations that are bringing the past to life and
it's honestly. You see some of these homes and they are.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Just classic, true Florida history.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
And that's the best part about summertime here is getting
to be a tourist in your own backyard. And I'm
thrilled that there are so many organizations out there that
are giving it to us, and many for free.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Yeah. Well, I know, I went a while back to
the Jupiter Lighthouse and did the little history museum there. Well,
being from Pennsylvania, I never realized that Fort Lauderdale was
called Fort Lauderdale because it really was a fort at
one point. Yeah, So I don't know why I never
Curry was like I'm reading all this, I'm like, oh cool,
now that makes so much more sense.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
And Military Trail was literally a trail that was used
by the military. And this was going back to the
late seventeen hundred, No, forgive me the eighteen hundreds, just
like who knew?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
And then you're like, yeah, yoah.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
And that was actually the main highway for all of us,
including myself before on ninety five was extended.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Military Trail was our major highway for two hundred years.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Going off to a different tangent, I talked to Benji
from Palm Beach County Environmental Management Resources. The ARM folks,
So PBCARM have a few events left because I get
too hot and they'll circle back. But Saint Lucy County
Hikes SLC Hikes has a few hikes and paddles and
kayaks left as well. So everyone go to their website.
So it's slchikes dot org to find out for the
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Saint Lucy County Hikes and the different preserves, and then
pbc RM dot com for West pomp Beach for pomp
Beach County Environmental land, air natural areas. But I know
pomp Beach County Parks have got lots of stuff coming up.
They absolutely do.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
We love our parks and recreation, some of us even
more than others for reasons we'll talk about later in
the show. But Daggering Nature Center has a ton of
different things happening all summer long. They have animal feeding
and talks on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at two forty five.
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And then this is really sweet Mother Nature and me
fishy friends, and that one takes place on Tuesday at
ten thirty am, and that one's really good for ages
two to five. But many of these, of course are
all ages.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
You know when you first walk into Daggering they have
that beautiful butterfly garden. Now, yes, so they actually do
things where you can go and find out which kind
of plant to get to make your own butterfly garden
at home.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Oh I love that, And you know, of course they
have that also at another one of our cultural gyms,
Mounts Botanical Garden, and you can go check out their
full nursery there. You can even purchase plants there and
you can always talk to horticulturists when you see them
there or during special event and they'll give you tips
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about anything, no matter how you know, difficult or challenging.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
It may seem of course they've been doing like the
sound bass and all the fun Tai cheese stuff in
the garden. Yes, I know, you can go to Mounts
dot org for that, and then also during the summer
talking to miss Wendy from more Commi Gardens and they're
doing like the raking classes where they make the end
garden and then the Tai cheese, the tea ceremonies where
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you can go experience that. So that's more Comedy dot
org to find out more about that.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
I had a friend who just recently did it. It
sounded blissful, yes, and oh I wanted to mention that
on June twentieth archery for beginners at Daggerwing. But then
of course Riverbin Park, which is I think just doomed
to be massively popular summer or not. That's where everyone
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goes for their kayaking. You can get kayak there through
Jupiter Outdoors Center. They don't recommend stand up paddling board
because there's lots of Florida native wildlife everywhere, but it's beautiful,
mostly shaded the river.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
This is really really good to know.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
It is a very shady paddle. But they also have
miles of just hiking. If you have a horse, you
can do some trail riding and it's almost all shaded.
It's gorgeous canopy everywhere. But they also have archery classes
there and so they mentioned the importance of getting out
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in it for your mental health, and you know, that's
come up a lot because going back to our cultural organizations.
The Armory Art Center's latest exhibition explores brain health and
mental wellbeing and it's called Before I Forget, which is
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an exhibition by South Florida visual artists Kristen m. Beck
and this artist sheds light on navigating memory loss with
a goal to raise awareness for dimension Alzheimer's disease. Meanwhile,
Brave Arts to Catch that celebrates the talents of local
military service veterans and promotes the rehabilitation and well being
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of same through visual arts and the power of creative expression.
And both of those are running through June twenty eighth.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Cool, and I know the Armory also has lots of
summer camps and they also have like just regular adult
classes like you and I go and take every now
and then. And they're also Armoryart dot org. And I
know they're also looking for donations right now. So if
you have little extras change when support that, they're happy
to have it. And I know Spady Museum as well
looking for an actual assistance, Arts garage and del Rey
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all the arts and like Worth Playhouse. A bunch of
folks could use a little assistance. So whether it be
as my friend says, your time or your treasure, they
would be very appreciative.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Absolutely, both are always welcome. I know the treasure has
been most needed for many of them due to funding
losses through state grant cuts and national grant cuts. And
you don't really think about it until these wonderful cultural
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organizations suddenly shutter their doors because many of them have
just the same people who are funding and funding, and
you can't go back and say, hey, can you double
this because one of our other funding sources is gone,
and it just kind of compounds it. And I know
a lot of people think, oh, you know, this is
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a really wealthy South Florida, but actually not, and not
everyone is as generous as a whole, but Yeah, I've
made personally because I get asked by a lot of
organizations for either my time or my treasure.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I've kind of been looking at.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Every half year or year and just choosing one particular
place to either renew a membership, up my membership or
pro bono work or volunteer, and that way it's not
only manageable, but it's just another way to kind of
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give a little hand here and a hand there.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Yeah, And I think that's a great way to do it, honestly,
because that half year, wherever you're like, whatever you are
in your life, your headspace, one charity might resonate more
with you than another one. They're all good, but like
sometimes I'm like, oh, I'm really into the outdoors. Let
me go get my my membership at Mounts.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
And I get to do that, and I do that
for a while, and then I'm like, oh, I'm interested
in this, let me go to the Norton, you know,
or you know what I'm saying. You share the wealth
around and it's hard.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
It's hard because I'm you know, with many of us,
with many of us, we're not in the financial position
to give give.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
But it's you know, kind of a little.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Okay, this is needed right now, and I can remove
something else from it in.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Order to help. But my time is what I usually
end up giving.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Not that I'm rich in that either, right, but volunteering
is really good for your health as.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Well, exactly.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
It's you know, selfishly, I feel great when I give.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Well, yeah, I just talked to other gentlemen from Restoration
Bridge International, and they do the big food drives out
of the Old Boy and Beach Mall every Saturday, So
if you want to volunteer, they're always looking for volunteers.
You get there between five and six in the morning,
you start putting all the food and the produce together
in the bags, and then the folk that need just
line up with our cars round like they start doing
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the delivery, like at nine o'clock into the cars, but
they line up much much earlier. And he said it
has gone from like you like a thousand folks showing
up to need food and the last week was two
thousand folks needing food and no judging. He's like, you know,
somebody might roll up in an escalade, but they just
lost their job last week or two weeks ago, and
it is what it is, you know. So if you
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need help, they're there to either provide the food or
you can help by donating your time, you know, sorting
the food and getting it ready and all the individual
packages for all the families. So they're always grateful for help.
And that's every Saturday down at the Old Point Beach Mall.
And I was like, that's such a cool thing to do.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
It's so wonderful. That's another beautiful thing about this community.
Everywhere you look, as much as I say, you know,
not everyone is so generous or this or that, or
maybe it's just it doesn't speak to them, you know,
of course, but then you turn your head and it's
the community helping the community, and it's there, like.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Mister Rogers, look for the helpers. There's lots of helpers, yes,
and we love our helpers. So we do love our helpers.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
And it's really wonderful that, you know, in response to needs,
so many of our cultural organizations, even though they've been
hit pretty hard, they are still due extending so many
free and open opportunities. You know. That's when many of
them feel people need this more than ever and they
need to not have to worry about it costing anything.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Oh agree and speaking about not costing anything. Brings me
to our next park thing we want to talk about.
So talking about your favorite park, don't tell anybody Carlon Park.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Oh, when it comes to Palm Beach County parks, it's
like picking your favorite child. Right, we don't have one,
but there is one that we usually spend more time with.
That's a great way to say it, you know, for
various reasons. Ah, yes, we are talking about the thirty
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fifth annual for thirty five years back when Palm Beach
County truly during the summer, there was zero in the
cultural department going on.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
The one thing you could count on was Shakespeare by
the Sea. And for those who.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Are new to the area or you know they have
come from a place that had a Shakespeare in a park,
that is exactly what it is. It is a Shakespeare
in the park like many people are familiar with, but
this one, of course, has the benefit of being by
the sea. It takes place in Carlon Park, Jupiter at
the Sea Breeze Amphitheater. It is named that because that
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breeze is in full force, maybe not every minute, but
by the time the sun goes down about halfway through
the play, the breeze has kicked up, and you are
steps away from watching the sea turtles crawl up on
the beach, seeing the bioluminescent glow of the animals and
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the ocean. But you can kick back, relax, come as
you are and watch a professional production of Shakespeare's works
presented on stage outdoors.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
I think it's fantastic, and of course it is free
admission that there's a suggested donation, of course, but it
is free for folks to come because you want them
to enjoy Shakespeare as to enjoy that cultural enrichment and
time with friends in the community. And what I think
is really cool is you just bring your own dinner.
It's a byob bring your own dinner, your drinks, your nap,
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your blankets, you want to sit on a chair, launch
chair in the back, you know, whatever you're comfortable with.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
We partner with Palm Beach County Parks and Recreation are
wonderful partners for all thirty five years and putting this on.
And we do try and provide concessions, so if you
wish to purchase cold beverage or something to eat, we
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try and get a food truck there or a cart vendors,
but you can also bring your own cooler. You can
bring a picnic basket, you can bring a portable table,
bottle of champagne, little bowl of caviar. Yes, I have
seen it all, but you also see the fourteen fifteen
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year olds on their first date sitting there with a
pub sub, a public sub and a bag of chips
and a couple of sodas.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
And it is so adorable.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
And we also have families because everything presented is family friendly.
We have not only families, we have generations of families.
In thirty five years, I have seen parents that went
there like me as a teenager in high school, who
are coming now with their children and their grandchildren. It
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is the most glorious privilege to have witnessed it and
be a part of it. That this is truly a
summertime tradition in all of Palm Beach County. We are
South Florida's only professional Shakespearean company, and we have been
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running consecutively thirty five years, but every single summer for
two weekends. This year it is July tenth through the
twentieth Thursdays through Sundays, so that is July tenth through
the thirteenth and the seventeenth through the twentieth, we opened
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the gates at six point thirty and the very first
weekend this year, we are bringing back the sonnet man Cool.
He is known around the world. He's a rapper who
raps Shakespearean's sonnets. And what you discover when you sit
there and you listen to him is how be perfectly
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written Shakespeare's work, is how beautifully it is transformed into
rap And he will do his performance just before curtain time,
and the curtain will rise as it always does at
eight pm each night. And this year our production is
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The Winter's Tale.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Nice. So if if listeners and I, who may be
a little slack on earth Shakespeare reading since high school,
what is the Winter's Tale about?
Speaker 1 (25:49):
So?
Speaker 3 (25:49):
The Winter's Tale is one of Shakespeare's really one of
his very unusual ones, which is why you might not
be as familiar with it as maybe the same tried
and true, retreaded and restaged five place. It feels like
more than one play in a play. The artistic director
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of our production, Trent Stevens, he explained it as a
Winter's Tale wasn't necessarily something you know about winter. It
was in the fifteen hundreds, way before then, from pretty
much the dawn of man, you know, when humans would
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gather around a fireplace on the short days and those
long dark nights and tell a tale, tell a story, beautiful,
fantastical story. A lot of the imagery in the Winter's
Tale is actually summery, so it works as a summer production.
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But you know what, this winter or this summer, we're
gonna make.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
It snow on stage. So that's one of the cool ones.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
So the play actually starts off telling about King Leante's
and he has this beautiful queen, wonderful son, his wife
is pregnant. Everything's hunky dory, but he becomes very, very jealous,
and due to his jealousy, he loses everything. But the
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play then fast forwards sixteen years, and here we are
suddenly sixteen years later. And of course, as you might
have studied in school, many of Shakespeare's plays actually took
course over a time period of forty eight hours.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Or you know, very short times.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
This one takes place over sixteen years, moves forwards sixteen years,
and during that bleak spiritual winter that King leon TASiS
gone through in those sixteen years, faithful friends and a
divine oracle will slowly lead him back to sanity and
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a surprised, glorious reunion with those he lost. So it
starts off rather bleak, and then it transforms into a funny,
lighthearted love story about forgiveness and redemption. I know that
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many people are most familiar with The Winter's Tale for
one thing, though you might not even realize it. So
Shakespeare didn't write a lot of stage directions or anything. Literally,
the way the line was written told the actors how
they were supposed to perform that line. It's really brilliant,
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but you know, things like pay up Goblet, puts down Goblet.
None of that was written in there. But you're going
along and you're reading the play The Winter's Tale, and
then suddenly, right towards the end of act one, there
is a stage direction exit pursued by a bear. Ah,
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I love it.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Literally, exit pursued by a bear? What? Okay, I definitely
don't remember this play, yes.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
But because it is one of the most challenging, intriguing
and entertaining things for anybody producing a play to try
and figure out, how are we going to exit pursued
by a bear? And we have a lot of fun
ideas for that as well. So for everyone, Yes, coming
out to Winter the Winter's Tale, presented by the Palm
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Beach Shakespeare Festival and Palm Beach County Parks and Recreation,
sponsored by Catherine Parr, and it is completely free of charge,
good for all ages. July tenth through the twentieth. You
can go to p B Shakespeare dot org for more information.
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At any time, come be a part of Palmage County's
thirty five year summer tradition. And for anybody coming on
July twelfth, that is the Town of Jupiter's one hundredth
centennial birthday celebration, we are going to be giving away
free T shirts first one hundred people who come out,
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So it's free, you get free shirt and professionally.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Produced Shakespeare under the stars. What could be better? I
don't think. I can't think anything better. It's gonna be
a lot of fun for folks wanting to come. I
know they can also follow you, I believe it on
Facebook and Instagram where you do like the weather updates.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Yes, I will be doing real time weather updates from
the park every single night, So you can just go
to Pebe Shakespeare on Instagram or Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival
on Facebook, and keep your eye out because the way
the weather works is going to be this way for
the next couple of weeks. Storms are expected around the
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later afternoon, they clear up by night, and that beautiful
ocean breeze nine times out of ten pushes it right
over to where we don't even get a drop. You
can look around. It's the craziest weather effect here, but
it's always a wonderful night byob Bring everyone you know,
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grab a blanket, spread out, lie back. You can plan
then a long walk on the beach afterwards, or a
quick jump in the ocean beforehand. Come in a bathing suit.
We really don't care. We want it to be as
accessible to everyone and we don't want any socioeconomic status
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or age or anything to prevent people from coming out.
It's a great introduction to William Shakespeare and for all
those kids that have to study it in school. That
isn't the way Shakespeare meant for you to discover his work.
It was meant to be seen, meant to be enjoyed,
and once you see it you will understand it, I
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promise you.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Well. Thank you so much for coming in and sharing
good news with us is definitely appreciate it and I
think very much needed in our community. And if you
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at iHeartMedia dot com. I'm happy to forward on the
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has a wonderful weekend. I'm dev no and this has
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been my perspective. Remember life is good, so be your
healthiest to you and let's get out there and live it.
Until next week.
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Good morning, welcome to Palm Beach Treasure Coast Perspective. I'm
your host, Dev Nepp. Thanks for joining me this weekend
and joining me in the studio. I have Elizabeth Deshiel.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Good morning, Good morning, Dev. It is so wonderful to
be back here.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I'm also glad you could come in. It is time
for some summer fun people. So school's heading out. There's
on you you can get the kids.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
I know.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Oxbow Eco Center has a bunch of different programs coming
up on starting June sixteenth through the twentieth. This one's
called Art Cherry, so it's art and archery, two big
things kills and grown kids too. We still be taking
our archery class yet we have to still Well, you
took your first one. I still have to take the
first ones. I can catch up with you.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Yes, And wasn't there another place that was offering archery?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yeah? I know as Saint Lucy's got it going on
this summer. They got smart about this for the kids.
So they have a cool thing called Wreck and Roll
and returning this summer. Lots of summer fun and they
go to different parks in different areas throughout the community
and it's going to happen throughout ju June and July,
and it's part of Saint Lucy County's Parks and Recreation Department.
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All different kinds of fun activities and it's designed for
kids who may not be at a regular summer camp,
so it kind of comes to their neighborhood where they are,
which I think is a good idea.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
That is fantastic because not every parent is able to
afford a summer camp. B provide the transportation to and
from the summer camp every day.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Well, and that's what they've discovered. So they're like trying
to meet yet another need in the community, which I
think they're doing a good job. Like Tuesdays from ten
to two, they're going to be the Roy and Jennis
McGriff Park, which was formerly the Sheraton Plaza Park. Wednesdays
ten to eleven is Longwood Tennis Courts and that's going
to be the archery day, folks, but that one on
your calendar, so that's where they're going to start adding
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the archery and it's ten dollars a class for the
Archery to send an email to Susan Lyons, so it's
Lions at Saint Lucico dot org and she'll get you
on the list. So when there's an opening, she'll let
you know. Super popular Thursdays it's Collins Park. Fridays from
ten to two's Paradise Park, so they go throughout the community,
which I think is just super fun. If you need
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more information, you can always call Eric. His number is
seven seven to two four six two seventeen ninety one
and he's happy to give you all the details on that.
So I know you have lots of fun. Like I'm
gonna call them culture things.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Yes, I was thinking, it's great you have the kids,
you have the summer. But we were talking about it earlier.
It's it may be brutally hot, swampy to some people
who aren't used to it, but gosh, it's so nice
to kind of have the place back to us. And
you know, more and more people are staying and living
year round, and the cultural organizations throughout Palm Beach County
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have really upped their offerings to meet the demand for
having these year round residents. That includes the Kravis Center
And in case you did not know. The Palm Beach
improv is actually now located inside the Kravis Center, So
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there have been the best comedians and entertainers coming through
there almost every other week, and we have in June
twenty seventh and twenty.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Eight Jeff Dye.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
He is this comedian who is all about positivity. But
most people might know him from the new game show
that's on Fox called Who the Bleep Is That? And
he's currently filming his newest comedy special, The Last Cowboy
in La. But he's been in a number of series
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and shows. He's an actor, a host, and he will
be at the Kravis Center June twenty seventh and twenty
eighth at seven pm and nine thirty pm. Also, we're
so used to our theaters being dark, but the Kravis
Center is bringing Broadway. A full Broadway production is coming
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this June June twenty fourth through the twenty ninth with
Ain't Too Proud, The Life and Times of the Temptations,
and it's fantastic. It's all the music get Ready, Ain't
Too Proud, my Girl, all the music that you know
and love, but it tells the whole story of about
how the Temptations came to be the Temptations and you know,
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I know a lot of people are fans of Jersey Boys.
Just think about that. But Motown and that is coming again.
You can get all those lineups at the Kravis Center, Cravis,
that's k R A v Is.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
There's Nosey there.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
But there's also something else coming to the Cravis this summer.
Oh Tommy, Tommy Yes. On June twelfth, Ballet pomp Beach,
that's the county's only professional ballet company, is having their
annual summer soiree. And they've done it in the past
in the Ballet pomp Beach studios, but now it's going
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to be presented in the Rinker Theater at the Cravis
Center and it'll be all set up cabaret style. There
will be delicious light bites and tasty cocktails or mocktails
for those that prefer, and you get to mix and
mingle and get to know these outstanding athletes, the members
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of the ballet company while they then get up and
do presentations of scenes from next season.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Oh cool.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
So every year they play a little game where the
dancers come out and do these beautiful dances and the
audience has to guess what production it's from and in
the end, that's the big anounce of what's going to
be coming next season for Ballet pomp Beach again that
is June twelfth, and you go.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
To Kravis dot org for tickets, so you're not going
to tell me what it is for next year. Oh,
I gotta go. Okay, I see who you are. You
have to come to the summer so well, right, I
like it. I like it of course, like you said,
they can go to Cravist dot org and get the
tickets for that there as well. Right, very nice, And
I like how they're bringing eight Too Proud during the summer.
It is Pravis is definitely mixing things up during the summer,
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like you said, rather than go dark, they come up
with cool ideas of ways to continue to serve the community.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
And you know, they're not the only ones. The Norton
Museum of Art, which is the largest fine art museum
in the entire state of Florida, and every time I go,
I'm just in awe over the works they have there.
This is a summer tradition for those of US long
term residents. They have summer at the Norton and residents
receive free admission on Saturdays starting now through August thirtieth,
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But if you're a resident of Palm Beach County you
can go to the Norton and they have lots of
things coming up, including the Juneteenth Community Day from eleven
am to four pm on June fourteenth. It's an intergenerational
event that celebrates freedom and spotlights the African American experience.
They'll have live music, dance, gallery, talks on art by
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actual other African American artists. There will be storytelling and
hands on art making activities, which is so phenomenal. I
love that this one is on Saturday, of course, but
they also have their Friday Nights Art after Dark, which
is when you get the tours and the hands on things.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Just check out Norton dot org.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
That's NRTN dot org for all details.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
And just fyi, we've talked to Scott from Scott from
the Norton before and he wants to remind everybody that
that first Art after Dark of the month is the
Jazz Night. So for o jazz lovers, that's an art
after dark you want to make sure you get your
tickets for.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
That is so fantastic because jazz lovers really love their jazz,
but you know, when you go specifically looking for it,
it's a little bit challenging to find.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
There was the Bamboo Room.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
I'm still waiting on Sunset Lounge to reopen, which of course.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Is again Norton's awesome. They see a need in the community,
they find a way to meet it, which I like.
I love that. And speaking of June teenth, I know
Spady Cultural Museum is doing a great presentation.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Yes, they are the June teeenth Spady House Party and
it's actually hosted by the Delray Beach Chamber and that
takes place on Tuesday, June seventeenth from five thirty pm
to seven pm, where you'll enjoy by its strengths and
music while celebrating one hundred years.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Of the Space House.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
And this Bady is very important to the Black community
history here in Palm Beach County. The exhibitions they have,
the lectures they have, it is a just a wealth
of information and a beautiful place to visit.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
And of course I've talked with Edwin and Charlie before
from this baby, they want to remind folks again because
it's a swampy, hot summer. Again, they have the lovely
air conditioned a bus tour, so you can sign up
for them, but you need to call and get your
tickets and sign up with the museum, and they take
you through a little tour of historic del Rey and
tell the stories, which I think is so cool. So
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it's a really cool way of making Black history, which
is our history, but exposing folks to it. I absolutely
love that.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
And you know, there is so much history that it
may be hard to recognize here in Palm Beach County.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
We have a rich and a very diverse history. I know,
new development makes it.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
It seemed like nobody cares about it, but there are
these organizations that are bringing the past to life and
it's honestly. You see some of these homes and they are.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Just classic, true Florida history.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
And that's the best part about summertime here is getting
to be a tourist in your own backyard. And I'm
thrilled that there are so many organizations out there that
are giving it to us, and many for free.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Yeah. Well, I know, I went a while back to
the Jupiter Lighthouse and did the little history museum there. Well,
being from Pennsylvania, I never realized that Fort Lauderdale was
called Fort Lauderdale because it really was a fort at
one point. Yeah, So I don't know why I never
Curry was like I'm reading all this, I'm like, oh cool,
now that makes so much more sense.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
And Military Trail was literally a trail that was used
by the military. And this was going back to the
late seventeen hundred, No, forgive me the eighteen hundreds, just
like who knew?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
And then you're like, yeah, yoah.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
And that was actually the main highway for all of us,
including myself before on ninety five was extended.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Military Trail was our major highway for two hundred years.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Going off to a different tangent, I talked to Benji
from Palm Beach County Environmental Management Resources. The ARM folks,
So PBCARM have a few events left because I get
too hot and they'll circle back. But Saint Lucy County
Hikes SLC Hikes has a few hikes and paddles and
kayaks left as well. So everyone go to their website.
So it's slchikes dot org to find out for the
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Saint Lucy County Hikes and the different preserves, and then
pbc RM dot com for West pomp Beach for pomp
Beach County Environmental land, air natural areas. But I know
pomp Beach County Parks have got lots of stuff coming up.
They absolutely do.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
We love our parks and recreation, some of us even
more than others for reasons we'll talk about later in
the show. But Daggering Nature Center has a ton of
different things happening all summer long. They have animal feeding
and talks on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at two forty five.
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And then this is really sweet Mother Nature and me
fishy friends, and that one takes place on Tuesday at
ten thirty am, and that one's really good for ages
two to five. But many of these, of course are
all ages.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
You know when you first walk into Daggering they have
that beautiful butterfly garden. Now, yes, so they actually do
things where you can go and find out which kind
of plant to get to make your own butterfly garden
at home.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Oh I love that, And you know, of course they
have that also at another one of our cultural gyms,
Mounts Botanical Garden, and you can go check out their
full nursery there. You can even purchase plants there and
you can always talk to horticulturists when you see them
there or during special event and they'll give you tips
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about anything, no matter how you know, difficult or challenging.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
It may seem of course they've been doing like the
sound bass and all the fun Tai cheese stuff in
the garden. Yes, I know, you can go to Mounts
dot org for that, and then also during the summer
talking to miss Wendy from more Commi Gardens and they're
doing like the raking classes where they make the end
garden and then the Tai cheese, the tea ceremonies where
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you can go experience that. So that's more Comedy dot
org to find out more about that.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
I had a friend who just recently did it. It
sounded blissful, yes, and oh I wanted to mention that
on June twentieth archery for beginners at Daggerwing. But then
of course Riverbin Park, which is I think just doomed
to be massively popular summer or not. That's where everyone
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goes for their kayaking. You can get kayak there through
Jupiter Outdoors Center. They don't recommend stand up paddling board
because there's lots of Florida native wildlife everywhere, but it's beautiful,
mostly shaded the river.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
This is really really good to know.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
It is a very shady paddle. But they also have
miles of just hiking. If you have a horse, you
can do some trail riding and it's almost all shaded.
It's gorgeous canopy everywhere. But they also have archery classes
there and so they mentioned the importance of getting out
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in it for your mental health, and you know, that's
come up a lot because going back to our cultural organizations.
The Armory Art Center's latest exhibition explores brain health and
mental wellbeing and it's called Before I Forget, which is
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an exhibition by South Florida visual artists Kristen m. Beck
and this artist sheds light on navigating memory loss with
a goal to raise awareness for dimension Alzheimer's disease. Meanwhile,
Brave Arts to Catch that celebrates the talents of local
military service veterans and promotes the rehabilitation and well being
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of same through visual arts and the power of creative expression.
And both of those are running through June twenty eighth.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Cool, and I know the Armory also has lots of
summer camps and they also have like just regular adult
classes like you and I go and take every now
and then. And they're also Armoryart dot org. And I
know they're also looking for donations right now. So if
you have little extras change when support that, they're happy
to have it. And I know Spady Museum as well
looking for an actual assistance, Arts garage and del Rey
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all the arts and like Worth Playhouse. A bunch of
folks could use a little assistance. So whether it be
as my friend says, your time or your treasure, they
would be very appreciative.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Absolutely, both are always welcome. I know the treasure has
been most needed for many of them due to funding
losses through state grant cuts and national grant cuts. And
you don't really think about it until these wonderful cultural
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organizations suddenly shutter their doors because many of them have
just the same people who are funding and funding, and
you can't go back and say, hey, can you double
this because one of our other funding sources is gone,
and it just kind of compounds it. And I know
a lot of people think, oh, you know, this is
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a really wealthy South Florida, but actually not, and not
everyone is as generous as a whole, but Yeah, I've
made personally because I get asked by a lot of
organizations for either my time or my treasure.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I've kind of been looking at.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Every half year or year and just choosing one particular
place to either renew a membership, up my membership or
pro bono work or volunteer, and that way it's not
only manageable, but it's just another way to kind of
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give a little hand here and a hand there.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Yeah, And I think that's a great way to do it, honestly,
because that half year, wherever you're like, whatever you are
in your life, your headspace, one charity might resonate more
with you than another one. They're all good, but like
sometimes I'm like, oh, I'm really into the outdoors. Let
me go get my my membership at Mounts.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
And I get to do that, and I do that
for a while, and then I'm like, oh, I'm interested
in this, let me go to the Norton, you know,
or you know what I'm saying. You share the wealth
around and it's hard.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
It's hard because I'm you know, with many of us,
with many of us, we're not in the financial position
to give give.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
But it's you know, kind of a little.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Okay, this is needed right now, and I can remove
something else from it in.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Order to help. But my time is what I usually
end up giving.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Not that I'm rich in that either, right, but volunteering
is really good for your health as.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Well, exactly.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
It's you know, selfishly, I feel great when I give.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Well, yeah, I just talked to other gentlemen from Restoration
Bridge International, and they do the big food drives out
of the Old Boy and Beach Mall every Saturday, So
if you want to volunteer, they're always looking for volunteers.
You get there between five and six in the morning,
you start putting all the food and the produce together
in the bags, and then the folk that need just
line up with our cars round like they start doing
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the delivery, like at nine o'clock into the cars, but
they line up much much earlier. And he said it
has gone from like you like a thousand folks showing
up to need food and the last week was two
thousand folks needing food and no judging. He's like, you know,
somebody might roll up in an escalade, but they just
lost their job last week or two weeks ago, and
it is what it is, you know. So if you
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need help, they're there to either provide the food or
you can help by donating your time, you know, sorting
the food and getting it ready and all the individual
packages for all the families. So they're always grateful for help.
And that's every Saturday down at the Old Point Beach Mall.
And I was like, that's such a cool thing to do.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
It's so wonderful. That's another beautiful thing about this community.
Everywhere you look, as much as I say, you know,
not everyone is so generous or this or that, or
maybe it's just it doesn't speak to them, you know,
of course, but then you turn your head and it's
the community helping the community, and it's there, like.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Mister Rogers, look for the helpers. There's lots of helpers, yes,
and we love our helpers. So we do love our helpers.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
And it's really wonderful that, you know, in response to needs,
so many of our cultural organizations, even though they've been
hit pretty hard, they are still due extending so many
free and open opportunities. You know. That's when many of
them feel people need this more than ever and they
need to not have to worry about it costing anything.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Oh agree and speaking about not costing anything. Brings me
to our next park thing we want to talk about.
So talking about your favorite park, don't tell anybody Carlon Park.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Oh, when it comes to Palm Beach County parks, it's
like picking your favorite child. Right, we don't have one,
but there is one that we usually spend more time with.
That's a great way to say it, you know, for
various reasons. Ah, yes, we are talking about the thirty
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fifth annual for thirty five years back when Palm Beach
County truly during the summer, there was zero in the
cultural department going on.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
The one thing you could count on was Shakespeare by
the Sea. And for those who.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Are new to the area or you know they have
come from a place that had a Shakespeare in a park,
that is exactly what it is. It is a Shakespeare
in the park like many people are familiar with, but
this one, of course, has the benefit of being by
the sea. It takes place in Carlon Park, Jupiter at
the Sea Breeze Amphitheater. It is named that because that
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breeze is in full force, maybe not every minute, but
by the time the sun goes down about halfway through
the play, the breeze has kicked up, and you are
steps away from watching the sea turtles crawl up on
the beach, seeing the bioluminescent glow of the animals and
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the ocean. But you can kick back, relax, come as
you are and watch a professional production of Shakespeare's works
presented on stage outdoors.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
I think it's fantastic, and of course it is free
admission that there's a suggested donation, of course, but it
is free for folks to come because you want them
to enjoy Shakespeare as to enjoy that cultural enrichment and
time with friends in the community. And what I think
is really cool is you just bring your own dinner.
It's a byob bring your own dinner, your drinks, your nap,
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your blankets, you want to sit on a chair, launch
chair in the back, you know, whatever you're comfortable with.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
We partner with Palm Beach County Parks and Recreation are
wonderful partners for all thirty five years and putting this on.
And we do try and provide concessions, so if you
wish to purchase cold beverage or something to eat, we
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try and get a food truck there or a cart vendors,
but you can also bring your own cooler. You can
bring a picnic basket, you can bring a portable table,
bottle of champagne, little bowl of caviar. Yes, I have
seen it all, but you also see the fourteen fifteen
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year olds on their first date sitting there with a
pub sub, a public sub and a bag of chips
and a couple of sodas.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
And it is so adorable.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
And we also have families because everything presented is family friendly.
We have not only families, we have generations of families.
In thirty five years, I have seen parents that went
there like me as a teenager in high school, who
are coming now with their children and their grandchildren. It
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is the most glorious privilege to have witnessed it and
be a part of it. That this is truly a
summertime tradition in all of Palm Beach County. We are
South Florida's only professional Shakespearean company, and we have been
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running consecutively thirty five years, but every single summer for
two weekends. This year it is July tenth through the
twentieth Thursdays through Sundays, so that is July tenth through
the thirteenth and the seventeenth through the twentieth, we opened
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the gates at six point thirty and the very first
weekend this year, we are bringing back the sonnet man Cool.
He is known around the world. He's a rapper who
raps Shakespearean's sonnets. And what you discover when you sit
there and you listen to him is how be perfectly
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written Shakespeare's work, is how beautifully it is transformed into
rap And he will do his performance just before curtain time,
and the curtain will rise as it always does at
eight pm each night. And this year our production is
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The Winter's Tale.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Nice. So if if listeners and I, who may be
a little slack on earth Shakespeare reading since high school,
what is the Winter's Tale about?
Speaker 1 (25:49):
So?
Speaker 3 (25:49):
The Winter's Tale is one of Shakespeare's really one of
his very unusual ones, which is why you might not
be as familiar with it as maybe the same tried
and true, retreaded and restaged five place. It feels like
more than one play in a play. The artistic director
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of our production, Trent Stevens, he explained it as a
Winter's Tale wasn't necessarily something you know about winter. It
was in the fifteen hundreds, way before then, from pretty
much the dawn of man, you know, when humans would
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gather around a fireplace on the short days and those
long dark nights and tell a tale, tell a story, beautiful,
fantastical story. A lot of the imagery in the Winter's
Tale is actually summery, so it works as a summer production.
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But you know what, this winter or this summer, we're
gonna make.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
It snow on stage. So that's one of the cool ones.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
So the play actually starts off telling about King Leante's
and he has this beautiful queen, wonderful son, his wife
is pregnant. Everything's hunky dory, but he becomes very, very jealous,
and due to his jealousy, he loses everything. But the
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play then fast forwards sixteen years, and here we are
suddenly sixteen years later. And of course, as you might
have studied in school, many of Shakespeare's plays actually took
course over a time period of forty eight hours.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Or you know, very short times.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
This one takes place over sixteen years, moves forwards sixteen years,
and during that bleak spiritual winter that King leon TASiS
gone through in those sixteen years, faithful friends and a
divine oracle will slowly lead him back to sanity and
(28:13):
a surprised, glorious reunion with those he lost. So it
starts off rather bleak, and then it transforms into a funny,
lighthearted love story about forgiveness and redemption. I know that
(28:34):
many people are most familiar with The Winter's Tale for
one thing, though you might not even realize it. So
Shakespeare didn't write a lot of stage directions or anything. Literally,
the way the line was written told the actors how
they were supposed to perform that line. It's really brilliant,
(28:56):
but you know, things like pay up Goblet, puts down Goblet.
None of that was written in there. But you're going
along and you're reading the play The Winter's Tale, and
then suddenly, right towards the end of act one, there
is a stage direction exit pursued by a bear. Ah,
(29:20):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Literally, exit pursued by a bear? What? Okay, I definitely
don't remember this play, yes.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
But because it is one of the most challenging, intriguing
and entertaining things for anybody producing a play to try
and figure out, how are we going to exit pursued
by a bear? And we have a lot of fun
ideas for that as well. So for everyone, Yes, coming
out to Winter the Winter's Tale, presented by the Palm
(29:53):
Beach Shakespeare Festival and Palm Beach County Parks and Recreation,
sponsored by Catherine Parr, and it is completely free of charge,
good for all ages. July tenth through the twentieth. You
can go to p B Shakespeare dot org for more information.
(30:16):
At any time, come be a part of Palmage County's
thirty five year summer tradition. And for anybody coming on
July twelfth, that is the Town of Jupiter's one hundredth
centennial birthday celebration, we are going to be giving away
free T shirts first one hundred people who come out,
(30:38):
So it's free, you get free shirt and professionally.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Produced Shakespeare under the stars. What could be better? I
don't think. I can't think anything better. It's gonna be
a lot of fun for folks wanting to come. I
know they can also follow you, I believe it on
Facebook and Instagram where you do like the weather updates.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Yes, I will be doing real time weather updates from
the park every single night, So you can just go
to Pebe Shakespeare on Instagram or Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival
on Facebook, and keep your eye out because the way
the weather works is going to be this way for
the next couple of weeks. Storms are expected around the
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later afternoon, they clear up by night, and that beautiful
ocean breeze nine times out of ten pushes it right
over to where we don't even get a drop. You
can look around. It's the craziest weather effect here, but
it's always a wonderful night byob Bring everyone you know,
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grab a blanket, spread out, lie back. You can plan
then a long walk on the beach afterwards, or a
quick jump in the ocean beforehand. Come in a bathing suit.
We really don't care. We want it to be as
accessible to everyone and we don't want any socioeconomic status
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or age or anything to prevent people from coming out.
It's a great introduction to William Shakespeare and for all
those kids that have to study it in school. That
isn't the way Shakespeare meant for you to discover his work.
It was meant to be seen, meant to be enjoyed,
and once you see it you will understand it, I
(32:21):
promise you.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Well. Thank you so much for coming in and sharing
good news with us is definitely appreciate it and I
think very much needed in our community. And if you
need more information, reach out to me Palm Beach Perspective
at iHeartMedia dot com. I'm happy to forward on the
details to you and don't forget you can always download
the shows a podcasts on our iHeartRadio app Hope everybody
has a wonderful weekend. I'm dev no and this has
(32:44):
been my perspective. Remember life is good, so be your
healthiest to you and let's get out there and live it.
Until next week.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
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