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Free: Traveling Festival Presents Shakespeare 'in a Breath'

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Join and Shakespeare Festival St. Louis on Wednesday, 6:30 p.m., at the Robert Reim Theater in the , for Othello in a Breath. The 50-minute adaptation of the Shakespeare classic is free and open to the public.

Five remarkably talented and versatile actors play 15 roles in the production which is part of the Festival's Education Tour. This year, the tour will reach more than 40,000 students.

"Award-winning playwright Elizabeth Birkenmeir has done a tremendous job of capturing the heart and full story of Shakespeare’s play in 50 minutes," says Christopher Limber, Education Director of the Festival and director of the production.

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Limber calls the production a "a miracle of compression."

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