The final four performances for Topdog/Underdog are upon us and this gripping, edgy show will close on Saturday, October 23. These closing nights are a kind of theatrical event of their own as set walls come down and furniture is hauled away to make room for the next show. We switch gears completely as The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) gets ready to preview a week from today (Wednesday)!Cape May Stage purposefully keeps programming entirely different theatrical styles and genres so that you can experience all kinds of theatre at the highest level! We close a thought-provoking Pulitzer Prize winning play and change things up with pure silliness and fun! This fast paced, improvisational play uses current topical references and popular culture interspersed with more or less "Shakespearean" dialogue for an evening of sheer delight! And patrons will be thrilled to know this production includes matinees on Saturdays and Sundays at 3PM as well as evening performances Thursdays-Saturdays at 8PM.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) began at the Paramount Ranch in Agoura, California and was a big hit at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. Soon after, it played at the Arts Theatre in London and at the Westside Theatre Off-Broadway in New York. Eventually, the play moved back to a full West End production at the Criterion Theatre in London.
There have been many productions of the play since then and we had to decide whether to take an already existing production or mount our own version. We decided to start anew using the Artistic Director of the Westerly Rhode Island Shakespeare Festival to helm the show so that it would be fresh and alive and have a theatricality that comes with new people working together for the first time. The set was shipped from Utah where Shawn Fisher is the head of the design department in the graduate school at their university.
Get ready to laugh! Call (609) 884-1341 for tickets today!
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