Tablerock Festival of Salado is excited to announce that Professor Kelly Parker, Director of Theater at McLennan Community  College, and his theater students are coming once again to perform a Shakespeare play for the annual production of Shakespeare on the Rock.

Tablerock presents Shakespeare’s comedy The Two Gentlemen of Verona

This year’s production will be “The Two Gentlemen of Verona.” It will be performed June 2-3 at the Tablerock Goodnight Amphitheater located at 409 Royal St in Salado. 

Tickets are $10 for Adults and $5 for children 12 and under. The gate and concession stand will open at 6 p.m. The show starts at 7:30 p.m. Purchase your tickets online at CentralTexasTickets.com or you may always purchase tickets at the gate on show nights. 

“The Two Gentlemen of Verona’ is a comedy by William Shakespeare and is considered by some to be Shakespeare’s first play.  The play deals with the themes of friendship and infidelity of two friends, Valentine and his best friend, Proteus, and the two girls they are in love with, Julia and Silvia. What comes about is a truly topsy-turvy love story, that has all the conflict between friendship and love, and the foolish behavior of people in love. 

It is the first of his plays in which a heroine dresses as a boy. The highlight of the play is considered by some to be Launce, the clownish servant of Proteus, and his dog Crab, to whom “the most scene-stealing non-speaking role in the canon” has been attributed.