About This Show

As dizzyingly eventful a drama as Shakespeare ever conceived, Cymbeline tells of a beautiful princess separated from her beloved, the cruel step-mother who tries to kill her, a credulous husband duped by an adversary, an exiled nobleman who kidnaps a king’s sons and a Roman invasion of Britain. In this lightning-paced production, a plain white cloth becomes a sail, a bed sheet, and a toga and a “fabulous” trunk becomes a bed, a throne and a cave. The transformations are magical and playful and true to the play, deepening its themes of illusion, deception and belief.

Show Details

Dates: Opening Night: September 8, 2011 Final Performance: January 15, 2012

Theatermania Review

| | September 8, 2011
The Fiasco Theater’s six-actor production of Shakespeare’s crazy-quilt of a play is even pluckier and perkier than in its previous outing.

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