Shakespeare in Queens Park 2006
 
 
And so, to bed ...
 
Sunday, 12 March 2006
The final performance this evening on dusk, and the Festival is over for another year.  A smallish, but enthusiastic audience said goodbye to The Comedy of Errors, and mixed feelings ensue.  This is
 
Wine, dine and Shakespeare
Sunday, 12 March 2006
Hard to believe how the weather has changed so much in one week.  This, our last performance weekend has been sunny during the day, with sublime sunsets as audiences arrived from 5pm to set up their
 
Build it and they will come.
Saturday, 11 March 2006
There’s an old saying which marketing people don’t really like: “Build it, and they will come.”  However, I have a very strong feeling based upon the positive atmosphere of this year’s SiQP that our
 
Blue skies
Wednesday, 8 March 2006
A drizzly weekend brought out hardy theatre lovers under umbrellas for the show, but miraculously, there had to be no cancellations.  Fortunately the rain cleared away to make the performances less
 
Gala Opening
Sunday, 5 March 2006
Last night’s Gala Opening night defied the weather once again and the crowd of nearly 500 opened the 2006 Festival and gave The Comedy of Errors a great welcome.  The performance was fast and funny
 
2006 marked the third year of USQ’s Shakespeare in Queens Park Festival.  In March it returned with “The Comedy of Errors” a brilliantly funny take on mistaken identity.  Staff, students and guest artists under the direction of Scott Witt presented one of Shakespeare’s earliest, shortest and funniest plays under the stars in Toowoomba’s biggest and loveliest greenspace.  This blog charts the progress of this project.