Last summer, friends in Madison introduced me to the American Players Theatre, which, during the warmer months of the year, performs outdoors in a picturesque setting near Spring Green, Wisconsin. The theater, which offers a repertory of plays, was founded in the late 1970s and attracts visitors from all over.
The grounds of the theater are set in a steep hillside. At the bottom is the parking lot, above which is a thickly wooded picnic area with abundant table seating, where theater-goers unpack all sorts of elaborate picnic dinners and regale themselves before heading up the hill to a rustic but not too rustic amphitheater.
Last year, we saw a wonderful production of Wilde’s An Ideal Husband. This year, we’ll be seeing A Flea in Her Ear, which Georges Feydeau wrote in 1907.
A procession of happy theatergoers flowed down the hill at the end of the night.
