For more than 36 years people have relaxed on Lake Tahoe's pristine beaches with wine and cheese, reciting all the best lines as Shakespeare struts his stuff. He's back at it again this year, proving that the views of Lake Tahoe aren't the only dramatic backdrops in town.

Attending the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival's amphitheater at Sand Harbor State Park is a must during the summer months at Lake Tahoe. Since 1976, the festival has grown to offer visitors and residents a selection of events designed to entertain and amuse. The festival continues to develop its roster of performances. This year amis to be the most exciting, diverse and engaging ever, with productions of King Richard the Third, balanced with A Midsummer Night's Dream. And in keeping with tradition from the last two years, the Lake tahoe Shakespeare Festival is throwing in a third play on Monday nights; it's CAMBIO, an original musical re-telling of the Hunchback of Notre Dame, set in modern day Havana, Cuba.

In their show, the Hunchback’s timeless story of a young man who people reject as a monster, and his love for a beautiful, rebellious young woman, will take place in contemporary Havana, a city of simmering tensions, on the brink of tremendous change.

The name of the musical comes from the white rubber bracelets that a lot of young people in Cuba have started wearing; some wear them as a statement that the Cuban government is due for a much-needed change, and others wear them because they’re a fashion fad. The bracelets have one word on them, CAMBIO, which means, simply, “change”. After a protest in Havana this October, some 70 young people were arrested and jailed as dissidents; some youth were arrested at their homes, simply for owning a bracelet.

A live band will set the tone for CAMBIO with a kind of Latin Gypsy Funk Rock mix.

Call their box office at (800) 74-SHOWS or visit http://www.laketahoeshakespeare.com for tickets and information.