Victoria Mansion and Acorn Productions are pleased to announce a fabulous evening of entertainment: Shakespeare's Garden of Verse at Victoria Mansion on Friday, Aug. 18 at 5:30 p.m. This presentation by Naked Shakespeare will feature enchanting excerpts from some of Shakespeare's best known plays performed in the rooms of one of Portland's greatest treasures.

This benefit performance will bring the Mansion to life with in the 19th century tradition of parlor plays (plus library plays, and bedroom plays) and will feature six scenes from “Romeo & Juliet,” “As You Like It,” “Twelfth Night,” “A Winter's Tale,” “Love's Labor's Lost,” and “A Midsummer's Night Dream,” a wandering musician, and more!  Beer, wine, and light fare are included.

Audience members will be free to move about the mansion as they choose, selecting which rooms they wish to visit and the order in which they wish to visit them.

Tickets are $30 with all proceeds going to the 2017-18 season of Naked Shakespeare and Victoria Mansion. For information or to reserve tickets, visit www.victoriamansion.org/events or call 207-772-4841, ext. 104.

Victoria Mansion is located at 109 Danforth Street, Portland.

More about Victoria Mansion: Built between 1858 and 1860, Victoria Mansion is the finest surviving house of the pre-Civil War period anywhere in the country. It is internationally recognized for its original interiors by noted cabinetmaker and designer Gustave Herter, which are more than 90 percent intact. An irreplaceable document in the history of American design and domestic technology, the Mansion has operated as a museum since 1941 and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1970. For more information visit victoriamansion.org.

More about Acorn Productions, founded in 1998, visit acornproductions.wordpress.com.