Shakespeare & Company
June 27–August 30, 2014
Directed by Tina Packer
featuring Jason Asprey, Nigel Gore, and Eric Tucker
Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre
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Shakespeare & Company
July 4–August 24, 2014
Directed by Jonathan Croy
Featuring: Adam Long, Daniel Singer, and Jess Winfield
Tina Packer Playhouse
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Shakespeare & Company
August 2–August 31, 2014
Written by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
directed by JONATHAN EPSTEIN
featuring MALCOLM INGRAM as Falstaff
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Shakespeare’s Globe Theater
From 6 August (touring UK and USA)
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Old King Lear, weary of royal duties, proposes to break up his kingdom and divide it among his three daughters. But this rash generosity is cruelly repaid and Lear discovers too late the false values by which he has lived – and, in turn, the suffering common to all humanity.
Its tempestuous poetry shot through with touches of humour and moments of heart-rending simplicity, King Lear is one of the deepest artistic explorations of the human condition.
The Comedy of Errors
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Blanche McIntyre
[button url=”https://tickets.shakespearesglobe.com/” target=”blank”]Buy Tickets[/button]Take one pair of estranged twin brothers (both called Antipholus), and one pair of estranged twin servants (both called Dromio), keep them in ignorance of each other and throw them into a city with a reputation for sorcery, and you have all the ingredients for theatrical chaos. One Antipholus is astonished by his foreign hospitality; the other enraged by the hostility of his home town. The Dromios, caught between the two, are soundly beaten for obeying all the wrong orders.
Basing his plot on a farce by Plautus, Shakespeare caps the mayhem of his Roman original to build up a hectic tale of violent cross-purposes, furious slapstick and social nightmare.
This production will employ Renaissance costumes and staging.