Created and directed by Gillian Bagwell.

Cast: Cristina Anselmo, Charles Currier, David Fruechting, Jane Macfie, David Needles, Lary Ohlsen, Franc Ross, Laura Russell.

Masks required for audience members, please! Cash or checks accepted at box office if tickets are still available at the time of the performance.

The Pasadena Shakespeare Company will present concert readings of Shakespeare and the Tender Land and Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens on the first weekend of October, marking the company’s return to production in Southern California for the first since 2004.

Gillian Bagwell, the founder and artistic director of the PSC, directs Shakespeare and the Tender Land, a one-hour concert reading which she created for the PSC’s participation in Pasadena’s citywide Tender Land Festival in October 2004. Eight veteran actors of the PSC will perform the tapestry of scenes, snippets, and fugues of lines from Shakespeare’s works celebrating nature, the elements, and “our life upon this little earth.”

Scott Rabinowitz directs a two-hour cutting of Shakespeare’s tragedy Timon of Athens, which he directed for Sacred Fools Theatre Company in 1998, with some actors from the original cast reprising their roles. Timon, wealthy and popular, discovers the truth of his friends’ regard for him when he runs out of money.

The PSC produced thirty-seven shows in Pasadena and South Pasadena over nine seasons in 1996 to 2003, drawing audiences from around the greater Los Angeles area and receiving consistent critical acclaim, including many nominations and awards for its productions from the LA Weekly, Dramalogue, and other publications. In 1998, CNN’s story about the Pasadena Shakespeare Company was broadcast internationally. In 2002, the Washington Post featured the PSC’s production of Macbeth in its feature about Shakespeare productions across the country.

In 2004, the company presented Shakespeare and the Tender Land as part of Pasadena’s citywide Tender Land Festival of art, history, music, and science celebrating interpretations of landscape, environment, and ecology, tracing our perceptions of nature and our human relationship to the earth.