This Friday, Shakespearean readings, public space activism and green design will mesh once again on 9th Avenue at 60th Street. Fordham College professors and students are teaming up to produce the second season of Lincoln Center’s “Shakespeare in the Park(ing Spot)”.

The park(ing) installation is a collaboration between Prof. Chad McArver’s Theatre Design class,  Prof. Michael Fishman’s Environmental Design class, and professors Sandra McKee and Colin Cathcart’s Architectural Design class. Freshman drama students will also help out with Shakespearean readings.

Prof. Cathcart sent this spot update to Park(ing) headquarters:

“Materials will be scrounged from Fordham’s Facilities/Operations Department and Prof. McKee’s japanese roof garden.  Professors Sandra McKee and Colin Cathcart’s Architectural Design class will be constructing cardboard chairs for a small audience.  Fordham’s freshman acting students (Professors Matthew Maguire and Elizabeth Margid) will be staging readings of Shakespeare, to the general amusement of the design students in attendance, and interested passersby.”

Cathcart promises a selection of “gory and freaky scenes,” and generally sums it up as ”a glorious (and highly educational) mess!”

ugh, is that class full?