The 2023 season of Shakespeare’s Festival ends in mid-August with five wonderful plays. The season ends with Much Ado About Nothing, King Lear, One Man Two Guvnors, The Winter’s Tale, and The Comedy of Errors (sold out with wait list only).
The production of Much Ado About Nothing has Beatrice and Benedick loving to bicker. The only thing they might learn to love more. Each other. They just don’t know it yet! In this rollicking lampoon of relationships, romance, and the influence of town gossip, Shakespeare delivers a near-perfect enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy.
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King Lear is short on answers and long on paradoxes, mysterious ambiguities, and unnerving contradictions. An aging King Lear decides to divide his kingdom among his three daughters, proportionally by who professes to love him most. His plotting comes to catastrophe and sees him cast from his own kingdom.
One Man Two Guvnors is set in Brighton, England during the swinging 60s. Hilarity and hijinks ensue when Francis Henshall is fired from a skiffle band and in search of new work. This most intriguing play finds himself employed by a woman posing as her mobster brother and by her boyfriend who is hiding from that brother.
The Winter’s Tale is a kaleidoscope of contrasts: tragedy and comedy; psychology and mythology; child’s play and adult themes; the urbane court at Sicilia and the pastoral idyll of Bohemia. These opposing elements mingle to tell us a cautionary tale: fear-based decisions lead to irrational actions, the abuse of power and the loss of life’s greatest joys.
The Comedy of Errors has a man and his servant on an adventure to find each of their long-lost identical twins. A side-splitting farce that features some of Shakespeare’s most delightful tropes, in this one-night-only special event.
Play dates end on August 13 at the Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre. Ticket costs vary from $29 to $95. Extra fees may apply! Save big with season tickets! This show is available in the Full, Pick 2 or 3, Weekday Will, and Choice packages or as an add-on to other season ticket orders. Tickets can be reserved at https://tickets.cupresents.org/ or call the box office at 303-492-8008.