First steps are a little shaky Shakespeare troupe gives its all to stage 'Much Ado.'.(Weekend)

From: The Fresno Bee (Fresno, CA) | Date: July 22, 2005| Author: Munro, Donald | Copyright information

Byline: Donald Munro The Fresno Bee

A new theater company was born last weekend in Fresno. Like labor itself, the inaugural performance of the Woodward Shakespeare Festival was an experience that included joy, laughter, frustration, intensity, pain, a fair amount of messiness and -- thanks to a stretch of broiling days that have turned Fresno, even at night, into the world's biggest open-air Crock Pot -- a lot of sweat.

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