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Welcome
from 2022 Season Program
by HVSF
— Coriolanus, Act II, Scene I
Dear Friend,
We are thrilled to welcome you to our new home and the 2022 Season of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival!
I have written many letters during my time as HVSF’s Artistic Director and I think it is fair to say that most of them mention the power of the shared experience that live theater provides. It is one of the things I love most about the theater — being in a space and a moment that will not be repeated, with friends and family and also with strangers. Plays under our big, beautiful tent offer a rare opportunity to celebrate what connects all of us.
This season is extraordinary for lots of reasons. It’s our first season in our spectacular new home, and it’s also the first season since 2019 that we’ve been able to welcome full-capacity audiences, and produce multiple plays in rotating repertory again. Despite the fear, isolation, anger, division, and deep loss that many of us have experienced over the past two years, here we are continuing to come together and celebrate our shared humanity. Because the deep need to gather together to make sense of a
bewildering world is part of what makes us human. It’s just what we do, and it’s part of how we find the collective strength to carry on.
As you sit under our theater tent today, in HVSF’s beautiful new home, I invite you to take a moment to close your eyes and imagine what will soon be, thanks to Christopher Davis’s incredible gift. When I envision the years ahead, I see more chances to be present and connected, more experiences to gather our community, and more opportunities to dream. This is only the beginning for HVSF; we are designing and reimagining the possibilities of this 98 acre campus to serve as a vibrant hub for our local community, a year-round cultural anchor for the greater Hudson Valley region, and a model for environmental sustainability. We can’t do it without you. On behalf of our company of artists, our staff, and our Board, I want to thank you for being a part of our past, for rejoicing in the present with us, and for helping us envision our shared future. This theater belongs to you, and we are delighted you are here. Enjoy!
Warmly, Davis McCallum, Artistic Director
Davis McCallum Artistic Director
