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The play’s the thing at TMS

The play within a play is a dramatic device most commonly known from “Hamlet.” While this year’s sixth grade class at Thurston Middle School (TMS) isn’t tackling Shakespeare, their upcoming performance of “Myths at the Edge of the World” by Matt Webster will deliver four plays within one. The production is an extracurricular activity, but it...
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London actors deliver masterful ‘Hamlet’

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By Audrey Anderson Hometown Weekly Correspondent Five actors with The Actors from the London Stage, currently on a tour throughout the United States, were in residence at Wellesley College from October 15–21. During the week, they led workshops with students from the college, and on October 18, 19, and 20, they performed an energetic,...
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The play’s the thing

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By Stephen Press Hometown Weekly Staff Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. That's what the audience is told, at least. For most of it, though, this balmy evening under a blue sky seems a million miles from "rotten." Pleasant, perhaps. Certainly relaxing. Maybe even a little eye-opening. This is the Gazebo Players of Medfield’s...
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Gazebo Players announce ‘Hamlet’ cast

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The Gazebo Players of Medfield are celebrating their fifteenth anniversary of Shakespeare in the Park this summer. After 14 years of performances at their namesake gazebo, the troupe is moving their Medfield performances to Meetinghouse Pond next to the Unitarian Universalist Church. Their first production at the new park will be “Hamlet,” often...
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