 "We that are true lovers run into strange capers" Touchstone the Fool (Jeremiah Maestas) opens the show |
 "The spirit of my father begins to mutiny against this servitude" The "young and tender" Orlando (Will Hammond) practices his wrestling moves |
 "Your brother is but young and tender..." Oliver (Dan Lendzian) and the fiercesome wrestler Charles (Todd Quick) plot Orlando's demise |
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 "Now Hercules be thy speed young man!" Celia (Leila Birch) and Rosalind (Donna Devlin) watch the wrestling match |
"... if you outstay the time, upon mine honour, you die!" Duke Frederick (Sven Salumaa) banishes his niece, Rosalind |
 "Now go we in content to liberty and not to banishment! La Liberte!" Celia (Leila Birch) and Rosalind (Donna Devlin) escape the palace |
 "The fool will go along the wide world with me!" In their "poor and mean attire" Celia (Leila Birch), Rosalind (Donna Devlin) and Touchstone the Fool (Jeremiah Maestas) set off the for the Forest of Ardenne. |
 "As all is in mortal in nature, so is all Nature in love mortal in folly" Touchstone the Fool(Jeremiah Maestas) |
"Thou sees't we are not all alone unhappy..." Duke Senior (Sven Salumaa) finds contentment in his banishment to the Forst of Ardenne. |
"Like Juno's swans still we went coupled and inseparable..." BFFs Celia--in disguise as "Aliena" (Leila Birch) and "Ganymede"/Rosalind (Donna Devlin) |
"Hang there my verse in witness of my love" Rosalind/Ganymede (Donna Devlin) discovers Orlando's (Will Hammond)love poems hung on trees. |
"O, I would cure you, if you would but call me Rosalind" Orlando (Will Hammond) and Rosalind (Donna Devlin) meet in the forest of Ardenne. |
"The thorny point of bare distress hath taken from me smooth civility" Adam (Dan Lendzian) and Orlando (Will Hammond) encounter Duke Senior (Sven Salumaa) in the Forest Ardenne. |
"O wonderful, wonderful and most wonderful!" "Aliena"/Celia (Leila Birch) regales the audience with one of Orlando's love letters |
 "Men have died and worms eaten them....but not for love!" Orlando (Will Hammond) tries (unsuccessfully) to woo "Ganymede"/Rosalind (Donna Devlin) |
 "A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life..." Young Romeo (Luke Robins) and Young Juliet (Devon Lachapelle) meet in our revised opening sequence |
 "Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe" Benvolia (Leila Birch) and Tybalt (Jeremiah Maestas) face off |
 "Do you bite your thumb at me, sir?" Benvolia (Leila Birch), Lord Capulet (Sven Salumaa), Lord Montague (Todd Quick) and Tybalt (Jeremiah Maestas) brawl in the street. |
 "She is the hopeful lady of my earth..." Juliet (Donna Devlin), Lord Capulet (Sven Salumaa) and the Nurse (Todd Quick) in happier times |
 "And palm to palm is holy palmers kiss" Romeo (Will Hammond) and Juliet (Donna Devlin) meet at the party. |
 "Come, he hath hid himself among the trees..." Mercutio (Dan Lendzian) and Benvolia (Leila Birch) look for Romeo |
 "An if he hear thee, thou shalt anger him" Benvolia (Leila Birch) reacts to Mercutio's puns |
 "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?" Juliet (Donna Devlin) on her balcony after meeting Romeo |
 "The grey-ey'd morn smiles on the frowning night" Abbess Lawrence (Elizabeth Bresnak-Arata) collects her botanicals |
 "I shall bite thee by the ear for that jest!" Mercutio (Dan Lendzian) forgives Romeo (Will Hammond) |
 "O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you!" Mercutio (Dan Lendzian) |
 "Tybalt, you rat-catcher, will you walk?" Mercutio (Dan Lendzian) and Tybalt (Jeremiah Maestas) battle it out. |
 "Fire-ey'd fury be my conduct now!" Benvolia (Leila Birch) tries to prevent Romeo (Will Hammond) from figthing with Tybalt. |
 In our rendition, street urchins (Katie Auger, Courtney Symczak, Luke Robins, Devon & Sarah laChapelle, Marc Decoteau) witness mercutio and Tybalt's deaths. |
 "O, sweet my father, cast me not away!" Lord Capulet (Sven Salumaa) berates the Nurse (Todd Quick) and threatens Juliet (Donna Devlin) |
 "Go girl, seek happy nights to happy days!" The Nurse (Todd Quick), and her beloved charge, Juliet (Donna Devlin) |
 "Happily met, my lady and my wife!" Paris (Jeremiah Maestas) and his reluctant intended, Juliet (Donna Devlin) |
 "Then have my lips the sin that they have took" Romeo (Will Hammond) and Juliet (Donna Devlin) seal their fate with a kiss. |
 "Romeo...take all myself!" Juliet (Donna Devlin) rejoices at being in love |
 "O, much I fear some unholy thing!" Abbess Lawrence (Elizabeth Bresnak-Arata) makes the gruesome discovery of the dead Romeo (Will Hammond) and Juliet (Donna Devlin) in the Capulet tomb. |
 "Let my life be sacrificed unto the rigour of severest law." Abbess Lawrence (Elizabeth Bresnak-Arata) prays for the souls of Romeo (Will Hammond) and Juliet (Donna Devlin) |
 "A glooming peace this morning with it brings" Death Angels (Riley Downing and Autumn Hauser) summon Romeo and Juliet |
 "Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie..." A new addition--an Angel of Death (Riley Downing) summons Romeo and Juliet to heaven. |
 "Never was there a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo" Angels of Death (Riley Downing and Autumn Hauser) lead Juliet (Donna Devlin) and Romeo (Will Hammond) to heaven. |
 "Wawaweewa!" Leila Birch (Adrearyana), Tucker Cummings (Borat), Elizabeth Bresnak-Arata (Slutty Queeny, the courtesan) and Dan Lendzian (Droolio) in A "Comedy of Borat" |
 "I would cut out his heart and eat it in the marketplace!" Tucker Cummings as Beatrice in "Much Ado About Nothing" |
 "And I left the Elsinore rodeo circuit for this?" Leila Birch (Ophelia), Elizabeth Bresnak-Arata (Horatio) and Dan Lendzian (Hamlet) in "Brokeback Hamlet" |
 "Two loves I have of comfort and despair..." Dan Lendzian as William Shakespeare |
 "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun..." Leila Birch as Shakespeare's Dark Lady |
 "Mistress you have struck William Shakespeare!" Shakespeare (Dan Lendzian) courts Queen Elizabeth (Elizabeth Breznak-Arata) |
 "Torn between two lovers..." The Dark Lady (Leila Birch) and Queen Elizabeth (Liz Bresnak-Arata) fight over Shakespeare (Dan Lendzian) |
 "The little love god..." The Dark Lady (Leila Birch) rebuffs a randy Shakespeare (Dan Lendzian) |
 "Dear Will..." Leila Birch mastered the dual roles of Shakespeare's wife, Anne Hathaway and his mistress, the Dark Lady, Mary Fitton |
 "The better to eat you with my dear" Big Bad Wolf (Todd Quick) and Little Red Riding Hood (Dan Lendzian) “Sugar-Coated Shakespeare: Big Bad Bard" |
 "Is everything okay, Grandma? You look....different" Big Bad Wolf (Todd Quick) and Little Red Riding Hood (Dan Lendzian) “Sugar-Coated Shakespeare: Big Bad Bard" |
 "Roarrrrrr!" Snug as Lion "A Midsummer Night's Dream"(Sven Salumaa) “Sugar-Coated Shakespeare: Lions, Tigers, Bards..Oh, My!" |
 "A host of lovely daffodils swaying gently in the breeze" Sven Salumaa (as Shakespeare) and Leila Birch (as Dorothy) enact Wordsworth's famous poem “Sugar Coated Shakespeare: Lions, Tigers, Bards...Oh, My!" |