Win Bard on the Beach Fireworks Tickets
Bard on the Beach returns this summer, with the white tents at Vanier Park hosting the award-winning Shakespeare Festival from June 4th until September 26th. With such a spectacular location, they are bringing back their very special Bard-B-Q fireworks package with tickets to a show, dinner, and private fireworks viewing for the Honda Celebration of Light.
Starting at 5:00pm on July 25th, July 29th, and August 5th, the Bard-B-Q package include tickets to The Comedy of Errors or Shakespeare’s Rebel followed by a delicious salmon barbecue and delectable desserts, complimentary tea and coffee. The evening culminates with a private view of the spectacular fireworks off English Bay. Tickets start at $95 for the whole package. Call the Bard Box Office at 604-739-0559 or (toll free) 1-877-739-0559 or order online through the Bard website.
Ben Elliott (Antipholus), Dawn Petten (Dromio). THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, 2015. Photo & Image Design: David Cooper & Emily Cooper
Win Bard on the Beach Fireworks Tickets
I have a four pack of Bard-B-Q tickets to give away for The Comedy of Errors on July 29th! Enjoy a night out with three friends, dinner, and the beautiful fireworks from the shores of Vanier Park. Here’s how you can enter to win:
- Leave a comment with your favourite Shakespeare quote (1 entry)
- Post the following on Twitter (1 entry)
I will draw one winner at random from all entries at 12:00pm on Tuesday, July 14, 2015. Must be 19+. Follow Bard on the Beach on Facebook and Twitter.
Bard on the Beach is one of Canada’s largest not-for-profit, professional Shakespeare festivals. Established in 1990, Bard is an annual summer festival with a mission to perform, explore and celebrate the genius of William Shakespeare surrounded by the natural beauty of Vancouver, British Columbia. Play performances run Tuesday through Sunday with matinees on selected weekends and weekdays. All evening performances start at 7:30pm.
Update The winner is @ArieleNorth!
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“This above all; to thine own self be true” . Words to live by.
“Since mine own doors refuse to entertain me,
I’ll knock elsewhere, to see if they’ll disdain me”
― William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
If music be the food of love; play on.
“If music be the food of love, play on” – Twelfth Night
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
“All the world’s a stage / and all the men and women merely players. / They have their exits and their entrances / And one man in his time plays many parts” – As You Like It
Can one desire too much of a good thing? – As You Like It
“If music be the food of love, play on”
Twelfth Night
July 29th is my 30th birthday, this’d be a great way to spend it!
“Though she is little, she be fierce” – framed in my daughter’s bedroom.
“Have more than you show, speak less than you know” – King Lear
a horse a horse my kingdom for a horse…King Richard
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
Lord, what fools these mortals be!
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep” The Tempest
Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
‘Tis the mind that makes the body rich“
Et tu, Brute?
My favourite is actually a line from sonnet 18:
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
“The earth has music for those who listen.”
The undiscovered country from whose bourn
No traveller returns
“Out, damn’d spot!”
“Brevity is the soul of wit”
“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
“Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow” – Romeo and Juliet
“The worst is not, So long as we can say, ‘This is the worst.’ ” . King Lear Quote (Act IV, Scene I). (@BinderKaur2)
To be or not to be… -Hamlet
To Be or not to be, that is the question ~ Hamlet
To be, or not to be: that is the question
In jest, there is truth.. King Lear
Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ’em.
(Twelfth Night)
“Can one desire too much of a good thing?”
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. (Twelfth Night)
To thine own self be true. (Polonius from Hamlet)
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
To be or not to be, that is the question
“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
To be or not to be, that is the question…
“Though she be but little, she is fierce!”
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!
“The course of true love never did run smooth.”
to be or not to be, that is the question
To be or not to be
“Though she is little, she be fierce”
To be or not to be, that is the question
Have more than you show, speak less than you know.
Tis the east, and Juliet is the sun
“Lord what fools these mortals be.” –Puck, A Misummer Night’s Dream
“Aye, there’s the rub”… 🙂
“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves”
To be or not to be -hamlet
We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
~ Prospero, “The Tempest”
“If music be the food of love, play on”
Twelfth Night
Tis the east, and juliet is the sun
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once..”
And though she but little, she is fierce!
“No legacy is so rich as honesty.”
“Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.”
-William Shakespeare
What a piece of work is a man!
Have more than you show, Speak less than you know 🙂
If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? (The Merchant of Venice)
All the world’s a stage.
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
“T’is neither here nor there”.
…there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
“Like as the waves make towards the pebbl’d shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.”
Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
– Romeo & Juliet
knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
Who could refrain,
That had a heart to love, and in that heart
Courage to make love known?
– Macbeth
O, when she’s angry, she is keen and shrewd!
She was a vixen when she went to school;
And though she be but little, she is fierce.
To be, or not to be, that is the question
“Et tu Brute?” -Julius Caesar
“Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.” – Love’s Labour’s Lost
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
“The golden age is before us, not behind us”
William Shakespeare
“Mine eyes smell onions” – Lafeu, in All’s Well that Ends Well
I scorn you, scurvy companion!
2 Henry IV (2.4.115)
To be or not to be.
“To be, or not to be: that is the question”
Hamlet
“Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.”
Romeo and Juliet
“We came into the world like brother and brother,
And now let’s go hand in hand, not one before another.”
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To be or not to be, that is the question.
Said the action to the word and the word to the action.
“And though she be but little, she is fierce.”
– A Midsummer Night’s Dream
My future tattoo 🙂
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
“Good wine is a good familiar creature, if it be well used”
Othello
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind and therefore winged Cupid it’s painted blind – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Lord, what fools these mortals be!
Shall I compare thee to a summers day
Good wine is a good familiar creature, if it be well used ~~ Othello
All the world ‘s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts. (As You Like it)
“If music be the food of love, play on” – Twelfth Night
“Don’t waste your love on somebody, who doesn’t value it.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
“Cry “Havoc,” and let slip the dogs of war”. – Julius Caesar; Act III, Scene I.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. Hamlet
And thought she be but little, she is FIERCE!
If music be the food of love, play on.
To be or not to be…
To thine own self be true
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.”
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so”.
This above all: to thine own self be true.
“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”
lover and madman have such seethig brains
“This above all; to thine own self be true.”
from KING LEAR:
When we were born we cry that we are come
To this great stage of fools.
“Brevity is the soul of wit”
Expectation is the root of all heartache
Neither a borrower nor a lender be 😉
“Nothing will come of nothing: speak again.”
“Can one desire too much of a good thing?” – As You Like It
From All’s Well That Ends Well:: “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
To be or not to be, that is the question.
“Out, damned spot! out, I say!”
“It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” – MacBeth
There is no darkness but ignorance.
O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
“Out, damn’d spot!”
Neither a borrower nor a lender be
Nothing will come of nothing
“To be or not to be… that is the question”
If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?” Merchant of Venice
“There live not three good men unhanged in England: and one of them is fat.” – Falstaff, in King Henry IV
Though she is little, she be fierce
To be or not to be…that is the question.
If music be the food of love, play on!
“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions” Hamlet.
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on.”
“The earth has music for those who listen.”
“to be or not to be”
“The earth has music for those who listen.”
If music be the food of love; play on.
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
“Friends Romans Countrymen, I come to bury Ceasar not to praise him.”… “The evil that men do lives after them the good is oft interred with this bones.”
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
“Out, damn’d spot!”
“To be, or not to be, that is the question” – from the famous Hamlet
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
where fore art thou romeo
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
Out out damn spot!
“If music be the food of love, play on.” – Twelfth Night
“Out, damn’d spot!”
“We are such stuff
As dreams are made on;”
– The Tempest
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow – Macbeth
Hear my soul speak: The very instant that I saw you, did. My heart fly to your service – The Tempest
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
All the world’s a stage!
“To be, or not to be, that is the question.”
They lie deadly that tell you you have good faces .
Coriolanus
No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I bite my thumb!
Double, double toil and trouble,
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.”
“The course of true love never did run smooth” – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
Thou knowest the mask of night is on my face. Else a maiden blush would bepaint my cheeks for what thou hast said tonight.
“I bite my thumb at you”
If music be the food of love, play on.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
The earth has music for those who listen
“Have more than you show, speak less than you know” – King Lear