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All's Well That Ends Well
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Apr 21, 2000
Closed Jun 11, 2000

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

Chicago Shakespeare Theater continues their 1999-2000 season with ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL. Don't be too surprised in our day and age if the stuff of fairy tales leaves you uncertain whether all does, in fact, end well . . . Helena loves Bertram, son to the Countess who raised her. But Bertram takes no notice of the orphan in his mother's charge - until the dying King is cured by Helena's medicine and grants her one wish. She wishes for Bertram.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:



Chicago Shakespeare Theater
800 E Grand Ave
Chicago, IL 60611


WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?


The so-called "problem plays" of Shakespeare are comedies with perilously dark souls, including The Winter's Tale, Measure for Measure, and All's Well That Ends Well, which is running at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater through June 11. The first two, of course, come to happy conclusions, in part because the conflicted men at the center of them--Leontes in The Winter's Tale and Angelo in Measure for Measure--are chastened and speak words of repentance or apology. The characters gain newfound wisdom as social and civil order--so central to all of Shakespeare's work--are restored.

But not so in All's Well, a play that offers precious little romance or poetry and in which the haughty yo[...]


Reviewed by Jonathan Abarbanel on May 16, 2000

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