Chicago Shakespeare Festival

April 29 – June 15, 2014

Director: Christopher Luscombe

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“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more!” In a rousing finale to the 2014 season, Shakespeare’s powerful history play takes center stage in our magnificent Courtyard Theater for the very first time. Acclaimed British director Christopher Luscombe, whose work has been featured at the Royal Shakespeare Company, sheds new light on the Bard’s legendary coming-of-age story. Against all odds, a charismatic young monarch confronted by the ferocity of war proves his worth as a man—and king. Henry V is Shakespeare’s rallying cry, celebrating the power of language to summon battlefields from thin air and ignite our souls to action.

Royal Shakespeare Company

30 April – 2 October 2014

Directed by Polly Findlay

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When wealthy landowner Arden’s suspicions of his wife Alice cheating on him are confirmed, Arden, Alice and her lover find themselves playing a deadly game as a series of would be murderers set off in pursuit of Arden.

Polly Findlay makes her RSC debut to direct this anonymously written thriller.

Folger Theatre

May 28 – June 1, 2014

Directed by Noah Brody and Ben Steinfeld

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Royal Shakespeare Company

30 July – 29 November 2014

Directed by Maria Aberg

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Beautiful Vittoria begins an illicit affair, enlisting the help of her brother Flamenio to fool her husband. They soon find themselves snared in a web of corruption, passion and retribution as their pursuit of personal gain reaches an epic and bloody conclusion.