Food of Love two weeks and counting; how about dinner with Roger Rees?

The Food of Love, a celebration of Shakespeare, love, and chocolate, will take place on Friday, Feb. 9, at 7:30 p.m. at the Williams Inn in Williamstown.

At this third annual benefit for the Fall Festival of Shakespeare at Mt. Greylock Regional High School, costumed students and alums will perform the Bard's love scenes, songs, sonnets, and soliloquies.
The audience will enjoy a sumptuous chocolate buffet while Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Ophelia, Titania and Bottom, and other famous Shakespearean lovers declaim some of the most beautiful love poetry in the English language.

Renaissance and traditional music will be performed by bagpiper Nancy Tunnicliffe, violist Emily Baker-White, guitarist Davy Payne, and the Williams College Elizabethans, a madrigal ensemble.
The Fall Festival of Shakespeare is a ten-week residency by Shakespeare & Co. at Mt. Greylock Regional High School and other county and regional high schools.

Seating for The Food of Love is limited. Tickets are $15, available at Wild Oats and Where'd You Get That?! in Williamstown and Country Tack in Lanesborough. For more information, please call Deb Burns at 458-0925.

Raffle items as of Saturday included: dinner with Williamstown Theatre Festival Director Roger Rees, a pair of tickets to Shakespeare & Co. this summer, $25 gift certificate at Chocolate Springs, a basket containing Shakespeare's Songbook (CD) with a box of chocolate cherries, a Valentine's Day flower gift certificate/ chocolate combination, and some mystical Mountain t-shirts.