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Marathon Shakespeare readers raise $3,300 in week
Who knew reading Shakespeare could be so profitable.
The week-long, 24-hour-a-day Shakespeare for Life reading marathon raised more than $3,300 from Oct. 7-14 to support cancer research and access to the arts.
More than 100 readers poured through 37 plays, 154 sonnets and five poems credited to Shakespeare. They were occasionally joined by downtown residents, lunch-hour workers and members of the Occupy Dayton.
Readings were broadcast into downtown Dayton’s Courthouse Square from the Blue Sky Gallery, 33 N. Main St.
The theater company Free Shakespeare! and Optum Nurses for a Cure, a registered team of the American Cancer Society’s Centerville Relay For Life, presented the event. Proceeds will be split between the groups.
Donations to Shakespeare For Life are still being accepted. Send checks to Involvement Advocacy to P.O. Box 10506, Dayton, OH, 45402-7506. Put Free Shakespeare in the memo.
And the reading doesn’t end there. There will be monthly Shakespeare readings. The first public reading will be 7 to 10 p.m. Dec. 5. Visit www.facebook.com/spreadthewords for more information.
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