Freewill Shakespeare Festival

Freewill Shakespeare Festival, formerly known as River City Shakespeare Festival was founded in 1989. It is produced by the Edmonton, Alberta-based "Free Will Players" every summer from late June to mid July. The Festival includes full-scale professional productions of two plays by William Shakespeare, as well as Camp Shakespeare - a summer drama camp for youth ages 8–16. All Festival activities take place in the 1,000-seat Heritage Amphitheater in Edmonton's beautiful Hawrelak Park. In 2008, the festival was renamed the Freewill Shakespeare Festival.

Recent productions

 * 2009: Titus Andronicus, The Comedy of Errors
 * 2008: Richard III, As You Like It
 * 2007: Two Gentlemen of Verona (musical), The Winter's Tale
 * 2006: Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew
 * 2005: Romeo and Juliet, Love's Labour's Lost
 * 2004: The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night
 * 2003: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Henry V
 * 2002: The Tempest, The Merry Wives of Windsor
 * 2001: Richard III, As You Like It
 * 2000: King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing
 * 1999: Macbeth, The Two Gentlemen of Verona
 * 1998: Julius Caesar, The Comedy of Errors