Shakespeare's Women

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For this show, we will be doing open seating. Thus, if you want to be assured a good seat, please plan on arriving early. The box office will open roughly 45 minutes prior to show time. Tickets should be paid for at the door. If you have a complimentary ticket, please present it to the box office in lieu of payment to receive a show ticket. Please be aware that reservations not claimed by five minutes prior to show time will be cancelled.

Conceived and arranged by Libby Appel and Michael Flachman, all of the play's text is taken directly from the works of William Shakespeare. Eleven actors make up the ensemble: six women and five men. (This number could easily vary.) Two main characters, a Male Narrator and a Female Narrator, contend with each other as they tell the story of this long night's party. These two Narrators play introductory, guiding, and observing roles in most of the scenes, but they will each take a significant role in two of the scenes.

The action of the play takes place in a foyer or main lobby outside an elegant ballroom. A champagne supper and formal dance are taking place offstage. The party begins early in the evening, and the play progresses from the beginning stages of the festivities, to the late hours of the night when people are tired and nerves are raw, and finally to the clear, bright light of morning as the dance ends and everyone goes home.

An evening of laughter, love and heartache with the great women of Shakespeare's plays. In this performance of rollicking comedy and searing drama, the women stand center stage: Ophelia, Juliet, Beatrice, Viola, Rosalind, Cleopatra, Portia, Kate, Lady Macbeth and others. Frailty, thy name is woman? Hardly. Laugh and cry with Shakespeare's women in their "infinite variety."

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