“This is hands down the best production of Hamlet I’ve seen on stage. At two hours and forty minutes including intermission it’s also probably one of the shortest while also covering much more of the text than …
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Director | Hamlet | Great River Shakespeare Festival
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Director | The Winter’s Tale | Great River Shakespeare Festival
“It was wonderful and provocative, an ever present and frightful mirror of our human condition” Winona Daily News
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Director | Great Expectations | Great River Shakespeare Festival
Scholz-Carlson melds this modest assemblage of effects with his adroit direction to create evocative stage imagery, such as a rollicking Christmas party, the overturning of a boat in a storm-tossed river, and a searing fire which, though inevitable as the narrative thrusts forward, is staged to catch us in a gasp of surprise.
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Director | Shakespeare in Love | Great River Shakespeare Festival
“The play is dynamically staged with constant movement, exciting fight scenes, and nary a dull moment, even scene changes are accomplished fluidly without pause. A rotating mini stage allows for quick transitions between locations, …
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Director | Richard III | Great River Shakespeare Festival
"This year's Richard III was one of the best plays I've seen at the Great River Shakespeare Festival—and you know that I've seen a lot of great plays there over the years...." -Bardfilm on Richard III at Great River Shakespeare Festival directed by Doug Scholz-Carlson.
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Artistic Director | Great River Shakespeare Festival
“Not only is the theater entertaining, engaging, relevant, and well done, but the festival is well organized and provides many other opportunities for entertainment and engagement throughout the charming river town of Winona.” –Cherry and …
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Director | As You Like It | Great River Shakespeare Festival
“…a celebration of love, forgiveness, and the virtue of living amid the glory of nature…in this Great River Shakespeare Festival Production, it is pure joy.” -Arty Dorman, Talkin Broadway “As You Like It is not …
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Director: Romeo and Juliet – Great River Shakespeare Festival
“I have come to have very high expectations of Great River Shakespeare Festival’s work. This Romeo and Julietexceeds even those, and is one the best productions yet from this essential fount of classic theater.” -TalkinBroadway.com …
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Actor: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead at Great River Shakespeare Festival
“This was a remarkable production. I can’t enumerate the points that was done so brilliantly—there were just too many of them—but the best thing about the production (besides the incredible harmony of the acting pair …
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Acting: Henry V at Great River Shakespeare Festival
“This Henry consistently rings true when he tells he is ‘but a man.’ Buth that man must also be kind, and what’s most impressive about Scholz-Carlson’s performance is that even as he mingles with his …
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