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"We that are true lovers run into strange capers".
Touchstone the Fool (Jeremiah Maestas) opens the show
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"The spirit of my father...begins to mutiny against this servitude"
The "young and tender" Orlando (Will Hammond) practices his wrestling moves
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"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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"Fair princess, you have lost much good sport!"
Touchstone the Fool (Jeremiah Maestas) amuses Celia (Leila Birch) “As You Like It” Summer 2007 |
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"Now Hercules be thy speed young man!"
Celia (Leila Birch) and Rosalind (Donna Devlin) watch the wrestling match
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"You niece..if you outstay the time, upon mine honour, you die!"
Duke Frederick (Sven Salumaa) banishes his niece, Rosalind
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"Now go we in content to liberty and not to banishment! La Liberte!"
Celia (Leila Birch) and Rosalind (Donna Devlin) escape the palace
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"The fool will go along the wide world with me!"
In their "poor and mean attire" "Aliena"/Celia (Leila Birch), "Ganymede"/Rosalind (Donna Devlin) and Touchstone the Fool (Jeremiah Maestas) set off the for the Forest of Ardenne.
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"As all is in mortal in nature, so is all Nature in love mortal in folly"
Touchstone the Fool(Jeremiah Maestas)
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"Thou sees't we are not all alone unhappy..."
Duke Senior (Sven Salumaa) finds contentment in his banishment to the Forst of Ardenne.
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"Like Juno's swans still we went coupled and inseparable..."
BFFs Celia--in disguise as "Aliena" (Leila Birch) and "Ganymede"/Rosalind (Donna Devlin)
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"Hang there my verse in witness of my love"
Rosalind/Ganymede (Donna Devlin) discovers Orlando's (Will Hammond)love poems hung on trees.
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"O, I would cure you, if you would but call me Rosalind"
Orlando (Will Hammond) and Rosalind "disguised" as the boy, "Ganymede" (Donna Devlin) meet in the forest of Ardenne.
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"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.
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"O wonderful, wonderful and most wonderful...out of all hooping!"
"Aliena"/Celia (Leila Birch) regales the audience with one of Orlando's love letters
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"Men have died and worms eaten them....but not for love!"
Orlando (Will Hammond) tries (unsuccessfully) to woo "Ganymede"/Rosalind (Donna Devlin)
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"Making Sonnets by Moonlight" |
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"Wawaweewa!"
Leila Birch (Adrearyana), Tucker Cummings (Borat), Elizabeth Bresnak-Arata (Slutty Queeny, the courtesan) and Dan Lendzian (Droolio) in A "Comedy of Borat"
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"I would cut out his heart and eat it in the marketplace!"
Tucker Cummings as Beatrice in "Much Ado About Nothing"
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"And I left the Elsinore rodeo circuit for this?"
Leila Birch (Ophelia), Elizabeth Bresnak-Arata
(Horatio) and Dan Lendzian (Hamlet) in "Brokeback Hamlet"
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"Two loves I have of comfort and despair..."
Dan Lendzian as William Shakespeare
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"My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun..."
Leila Birch as Shakespeare's Dark Lady
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"Mistress you have struck William Shakespeare!"
Shakespeare (Dan Lendzian) courts Queen Elizabeth (Elizabeth Breznak-Arata)
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"Torn between two lovers..."
The Dark Lady (Leila Birch) and Queen Elizabeth (Liz Bresnak-Arata) fight over Shakespeare (Dan Lendzian)
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"The little love god..."
The Dark Lady (Leila Birch) rebuffs a randy Shakespeare (Dan Lendzian)
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"Dear Will..."
Leila Birch mastered the dual roles of Shakespeare's wife, Anne Hathaway and his mistress, the Dark Lady, Mary Fitton
“Making Sonnets by Moonlight” Summer 2007
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"Romeo & Juliet" |
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"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
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"Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe"
Benvolia (Leila Birch) and Tybalt (Jeremiah Maestas) face off
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"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.
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"She is the hopeful lady of my earth..."
Juliet (Donna Devlin), Lord Capulet (Sven Salumaa) and the Nurse (Todd Quick) in happier times
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"And palm to palm is holy palmers kiss"
Romeo (Will Hammond) and Juliet (Donna Devlin) meet at the party.
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"Come, he hath hid himself among the trees..."
Mercutio (Dan Lendzian) and Benvolia (Leila Birch) look for Romeo
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"An if he hear thee, thou shalt anger him"
Benvolia (Leila Birch) reacts to Mercutio's puns
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"But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?"
Juliet (Donna Devlin) on her balcony after meeting Romeo
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"The grey-ey'd morn smiles on the frowning night"
Abbess Lawrence (Elizabeth Bresnak-Arata) collects her botanicals
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"I shall bite thee by the ear for that jest!"
Mercutio (Dan Lendzian) forgives Romeo (Will Hammond)
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"O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you!"
Mercutio (Dan Lendzian)
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"Tybalt, you rat-catcher, will you walk?"
Mercutio (Dan Lendzian) and Tybalt (Jeremiah Maestas) battle it out.
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"Fire-ey'd fury be my conduct now!"
Benvolia (Leila Birch) tries to prevent Romeo (Will Hammond) from figthing with Tybalt.
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"He is Fortune's fool!"
In our rendition, street urchins (Katie Auger, Courtney Symczak, Luke Robins, Devon & Sarah laChapelle, Marc Decoteau) witness mercutio and Tybalt's deaths.
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"O, sweet my father, cast me not away!"
Lord Capulet (Sven Salumaa) berates the Nurse (Todd Quick) and threatens Juliet (Donna Devlin)
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"Go girl, seek happy nights to happy days!"
The Nurse (Todd Quick), and her beloved charge, Juliet (Donna Devlin)
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"Happily met, my lady and my wife!"
Paris (Jeremiah Maestas) and his reluctant intended, Juliet (Donna Devlin)
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"Then have my lips the sin that they have took"
Romeo (Will Hammond) and Juliet (Donna Devlin) seal their fate with a kiss.
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"Romeo...take all myself!"
Juliet (Donna Devlin) rejoices at being in love
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"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.
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"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)
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"A glooming peace this morning with it brings"
Death Angels (Riley Downing and Autumn Hauser) summon Romeo and Juliet
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"Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie..."
A new addition--an Angel of Death (Riley Downing) summons Romeo and Juliet to heaven.
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"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.
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Sugar Coated Shakespeare |
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"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"
Summer 2007
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"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"
Summer 2007
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"Roarrrrrr!"
Snug as Lion from "A Midsummer Night's Dream"(Sven Salumaa)
“Sugar-Coated Shakespeare: Lions, Tigers, Bards..Oh, My!"
Summer 2007
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"A host of loveley 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!"
Summer 2007
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