in Rose Cottages
(© Ian Flanders)
Theatricum Botanicum has announced its slate of productions for its 2011 summer repertory season, to run June 4-September 10.
Alan Blumenfeld will star as the opportunistic schemer and womanizer Sir John Falstaff in Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor, directed by Ellen Geer. In the play, when Falstaff tries to woo two wealthy women at once, they happily plot his comeuppance.
Melora Marshall will direct Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as ardent young lovers, mischievous fairies and a ragtag band of tradespeople encounter a night filled with wonder, magic and romance.
Geer will direct Moliere’s Tartuffe, in which the seemingly pious title character (played by Aaron Hendry) worms his way into the home of wealthy merchant Orgon (Ted Barton). Smelling a rat, the family hatches a cunning plan to outwit the wily deceiver before he brings their house crashing down.
Shakespeare’s Richard III, also directed by Geer, features Melora Marshall and Chad Jason Scheppner alternating in the title role. Daunted by a life of physical challenges, Richard weaves a fiery web of intrigue, removing all obstacles – and all people – that stand between him and his designs on the throne of England.
Helen Heidi Davis will direct Ellen Geer, Earnestine Phillips and Graco Hernandez in the West Coast premiere of Bill Bozzone’s Rose Cottages, an off beat and quirky comedy about a defacto family formed when Rose, the beleaguered owner of a dilapidated tourist motel, grudgingly befriends a disenfranchised teen punker and a sassy older woman who has been abandoned by her son.
Susan Angelo will direct Samara Frame in the solo play, My Name Is Rachel Corrie , about the titular 23-year-old American, who was killed by an Israeli Army bulldozer in Gaza as she was trying to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian home. The piece was composed from Corrie’s journals, letters and emails by British actor/director Alan Rickman and award-winning journalist and London Guardian editor Katherine Viner.
In addition to the six plays in the Repertory Season, Theatricum offers a variety of satellite programming.
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