25
April
2025
Polishing Shakespeare
April 17 - April 27, 2025; Thurs, Fri and Sat @ 7:30 PM, Sun @ 2 PM
A dotcom billionaire offers a struggling regional theater a fortune—to ‘translate’ Shakespeare into friendlier English. In Brian Dykstra’s sharp, timely satire (written entirely in iambic pentameter), a high-stakes battle unfolds between the billionaire (Steven Patterson), an Artistic Director (Yvonne Perry), and a debt-ridden playwright (Angelique Archer).
Can a scrappy theater survive without corporate cash in these lean post-COVID days? What’s lost when money dictates art? Will the playwright hold her integrity, can the director find middle ground, or will the billionaire win out? Packed with Elizabethan wordplay, dizzying alliteration, Seussian rhymes, and puns so outrageous they’ll leave you gasping and laughing.
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