It wasn’t until this year that I truly understood how much Ruff is part of the neighbourhood community. Whenever we would be working in the park, painting, or rehearsing, someone would inevitably come up to us and ask when the show would be.
The great thing about Shakespeare in the Ruff is that anyone can engage with their shows. No matter where they’re at in life, they can come experience some magic for a little while. There’s a sense of openness and of welcoming that even a pandemic couldn’t squash.
We wrote a shakespeare play. A story that is filled with epic-ness, and heartbreak, and poetry, and laughter, and verse, and joy and tragedy. A play that is not an adaptation, or a retelling of shakespeare— because it is shakespeare.