The Rustic Mechanicals and High Ground Brewing are excited to present the 2023 Ides of March ShakesBEER Festival! Join us in Terra Alta, WV on Friday, March 10, 2023 for the fusion of two of the world's greatest things: beer and Shakespeare. 

Tickets are $25 and admission is very limited. Don't snooze on this incredible event. 

High Ground is brewing a speciality ShakesBEER just for the occasion and the Smoked Taco food truck will be on hand for all your nosh needs. The ShakesBEER Band will be on hand to provide some live energy, and the Mechanicals will be hosting their signature “Shakespeareaoke!”

Founded by Celi Oliveto in the summer of 2014, The Rustic Mechanicals is the only troupe of actors in the state dedicated to touring the works of William Shakespeare and other classical playwrights.

The Mechanicals now tour five shows annually, including their summer West Virginia Shakespeare in the Park(s) outdoor tour and script-in-hand productions that we call “a Play, a Pie, and a Pint,” focusing on making Shakespeare’s plays accessible to modern audiences by utilizing dynamic and extreme casting techniques paired with Shakespeare’s staging conditions.

Previous productions include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado about Nothing, Macbeth, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice, Romeo & Juliet, The Merry Wives of Windsor, King Lear, Richard III, The Comedy of Errors, Hamlet, Measure for Measure, As You Like It, Julius Caesar, Titus Andronicus, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Cymbeline, and the original works Timeless Romance and Toil & Trouble.