Courtesy Meow Wolf Devastating Meow Wolf death This production, directed by Rodney Lizcano, includes a unique and deeply moving epilogue that is a gift to all of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s working artists and audiences. And the Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s cherry to Bard fans is a powerfully performed “ The Book of Will,” a 2017 play by Lauren Gunderson that imagines how Shakespeare’s plays were very nearly lost to history until a group of friends set out to publish an anthology many years after his death. The Rocky Mountain Repertory Theatre in Grand Lake is staging “Desperate Measures,” a madcap musical comedy takeoff on “ Measure for Measure” in late 1800s Arizona. There are also two Shakespeare-esque offerings worth noting. “Gender fluidity, racial inequity and empowering women are all conversations begging to be had – and they are all present in Shakespeare’s works.” “If our collective goal is to better include all of the voices in our community, then I think Shakespeare is one of the best ways to do it,” Miller said. The Longmont Theatre Company and Theater Company of Lafayette are partnering for “ Antony and Cleopatra,” Shakespeare’s classic tale of romance and treachery, which is being staged in various indoor and outdoor locations in Longmont, Lafayette, Erie and Boulder through July 24.Īnd then there’s Leigh Miller’s COVID-delayed “Shakespeare in the Wild” production of “ A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” directed by Sam Gregory, which will play out in an open-space meadow near the Goodson Recreation Center in Centennial from Aug. The play is being staged on the lawn outside the Ent Center for the Arts through July 31 – except on Friday nights, when it moves inside to the Dusty Loo Bon Vivant Theatre to avoid competing noise. Courtesy TheatreWorksĮlsewhere, Colorado Springs TheatreWorks is presenting “ Twelfth Night,” with all its gender-swapped hijinks, as its traditional summer Shakespeare offering, but not where it usually does, in the field at Rock Ledge Ranch west of the city. Some of the 'Twelfth Night' cast at TheatreWorks. Orr doesn’t mind saying that both plays, neither of which usually sells like hotcakes, “are crushing it at the box office.” “Those are all very important questions in 2022. “What we kept asking ourselves was, ‘What’s on the other side of making a mistake? Is that it? What happens next? Can there be forgiveness?’” Orr said. Orr says both of his creative teams have been wrestling with these questions for a year, and he believes asking them right now in 2022 is part of how we collectively move forward. Both directors add ambiguities to their endings that give each of the offended women agency to hatch possible (unscripted) escape clauses. Have a great life, lovebirds!Ĭolorado Shakespeare Festival Producing Artistic Director Timothy Orr intentionally assigned both hot potatoes to female directors (Carolyn Howarth and Wendy Franz) who both took liberties with the text that empower Shakespeare’s women to deliver some of the most damning assessments of the offending men. She fakes her death, sleeps with him in disguise and gets pregnant, so he is then forced to either marry her or face charges of seduction and abandonment.
Or for Bertram, the mean-spirited philanderer who is ordered to marry her. At least not for Helen, a doctor’s daughter who falls for the wrong guy. In “All’s Well that Ends Well,” it doesn’t – end well, that is. And yet, Shakespeare would want us to want them to be reunited in the end. This year, that means taking on two of the Bard’s more obvious problem plays in the #MeToo era – “ Two Gentlemen of Verona” and “ All’s Well That Ends Well.” In the former, a scoundrel named Proteus is called out of town and instantly leaves his intended behind, saying, “I will forget that Julia is alive.” He then doggedly pursues his best friend’s girlfriend, fully unaware that Julia, in disguise, is right by his side throughout the play, witnessing his unforgivable lechery first-hand. Take the 65-year-old Colorado Shakespeare Festival, which prides itself on regularly rotating throughout the entire Shakespeare canon, so – no dodging. It seems being the greatest writer in the history of the English language still counts for something – although you can’t help but squirm from time to time watching his problem plays play out. In Colorado, Shakespeare is on stage everywhere from Boulder, home of the second-oldest summer Shakespeare Festival in the county, to Colorado Springs to Longmont to Centennial.
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