Shakespeare Summer Festival in Walla Walla

WALLA WALLA - Members of the Dayton Chamber of Commerce, some of which are Waits- burg businesses, can get discounted tickets to the Shakespeare Summer Festival in Walla Walla Aug. 8 -18. Presented by Columbia REA, this summer's festival features 12 performances of the bard's Merchant of Venice at the Gesa Power House Theater.

The Merchant of Ven- ice shines the spotlight on themes of prejudice and redemption, timely and relevant even four-hundred years after the work was written. The Merchant of Venice will be performed in modern dress, set in the world of big business and flashy reality TV, examining our well-moneyed, celebrity- crazed Hollywood culture in Shakespeare's beautiful language.

Savings to Chamber members amount to $4 per ticket. For more information, call 509-529-6500.