Bard on the Beach

Every year in the summer, there is a Shakespeare festival in Vancouver called Bard on the Beach. If you don't know Shakespeare, he was a famous English playwright (a person who writes plays) who wrote many famous plays (Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, King Lear, etc.) and many beautiful poems about 450 years ago. Shakespeare's plays are often very funny, very romantic, and sometimes very tragic.

Bard on the Beach is performed on stages in a big tents at Kits Beach. The stage is covered with a roof, but behind it there is no wall, so you can see the trees, mountains and sky behind the actors as they perform the play.This year we went to see Antony and Cleopatra. This play is a romantic tragedy about the love between Mark Antony, a famous Roman soldier, and Cleopatra, the queen of Egypt. They have a very passionate love affair, but in the end it's game over.

The actors were very good and the weather was great, so we could watch the play and also watch the sun go down behind the mountains. It was a great night out. This is an excellent event to go to if you have the time. See the link below for more info.

http://www.bardonthebeach.org/