Special Shakespeare Shows Come to the Slope

Two Shakespeare performances are set to hit Park Slope this month – although neither will take place onstage.

An adaptation of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” founded by the husband-and-wife owners of the South Slope bar appropriately named South, will come to a parking lot on the corner of 17th Street and Fifth Avenue this Thursday night.

“My wife and I have always had this dream of doing an outdoor Shakespeare festival right here in Brooklyn,” Paul Molnar told the New York Daily News. “There are so many artistic and creative people here in Park Slope that we couldn’t think of a better place to do it in.”

The play’s performers and crew are all volunteers from Park Slope.

The next Aug. 17 performance comes in the form of a pub crawl called “Shakesbeer.” For $40, local theater company Shakespeare Exchange will give out four beers and four separate performances at local bars including Mission Dolores, Loki Lounge, Beauty Bar and Backyard.

Actors will be integrated into the bars as employees or servers.

“Our mission is to bring Shakespeare to people in unique and surprising ways,” Shakespeare artistic director Ross Williams said. “It’s a way of integrating his work into contemporary society by bringing it to places people would normally hang out.”