The “green-eyed monster” is running amok in the field next to the 6th Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa with the Jacobethan Theatre Workshop’s Shakespeare in the Park(ing Lot) production of Othello. The show has two remaining performances – Saturday, August 9, at 7:30 pm, and Sunday, August 10, at 6:00 pm.
After a couple of years performing in the parking lot of the nearby Arlene Francis Center, the company decided to move a bit further away from the SMART Train tracks and found a willing host in 6th Street Playhouse.
Were it so that the move reduced the amount of distracting environmental noise. The still-nearby SMART Train was the least intrusive element.
Credit to the show’s cast for getting through the performance and keeping the audience in rapt attention despite car alarms, bicyclists with boom boxes blaring the Bee Gees, several low-flying passes by Henry-One, and the noise emanating from the Sonoma County Fair’s Monster Trucks event…