Torch Lake, Michigan This year Oberon Up North was about exuberance and awe. Our visit to Interlochen Center for the Arts ' Interlochen Shakespeare Festival provided a Taming of the Shrew unlike any Shakespeare performance I've ever seen. Dustin Tucker and Laura Ames Mittelstaedt portrayed Petruchio and Kate as a lion tamer and knife thrower in William Church's exuberant circus of a production. From the first act when Kate whirled knives at her terrified sister played by Ana Luderowski -- tied hand and foot to a giant wheel -- joyous imagery burnished this frolic a play. Laura Ames Mittelstaedt as Kate in Interlochen's Taming of the Shrew Marshall Maynard Fredericks ' "Two Bears" sculpture fit into the circus theme outside the Harvey Theater on the Interlochen campus. Sue Width, Tom Hunter and Richard Joyrich admire Fredericks' bears. Oberoner and Interlochen Market Research Manger Gordon Berg escorted our group around the huge Interlochen campu...
a Michigan group dedicated to the study of the works of William Shakespeare with particular interest in the authorship question