Outdoor Theatre Complex
Century College, West Campus,
3300 Century Ave. N,
White Bear Lake, Minnesota
651-779-5818
by William Shakespeare
directed by George M. Roesler
"They say this town is full of cozenage, As nimble jugglers that deceive the eye…”
Shakespeare’s mad-capped farcical romp tells the tale of two sets of identical twins accidentally separated at birth. Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant, Dromio, arrive in Ephesus, which turns out to be the home of their twin brothers, Antipholus of Ephesus and his servant, Dromio. When the boys from Syracuse encounter the friends and families of their twins, a series of wild mishaps based on mistaken identities lead to wrongful beatings, a near-seduction, arrests, accusations of infidelity, theft, madness, and demonic possession. “Every why hath a wherefore.”
June 25, June 26, July 2, July 15, July 23, July 31
by William Shakespeare
directed by Jeffrey Altier
“How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!”
One of Shakespeare’s most brutal and most lyrical tragedies; King Lear is not just a shattering study of family dynamics, but also the portrait of a king and country plunging into madness and chaos. The parallel stories of Lear and Gloucester are full of deceit and death, as the characters confront fundamental questions of justice, familial duty, and ultimately- sacrifice and possible redemption, while the world collapses around them.
July 1, July 3, July 9, July 17, July 22, July 30
by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher,
directed by Stu Naber
“Men are mad things”
While imprisoned in Athens, cousins Palamon and Aricte espy the beautiful Princess Emilia and immediately fall irretrievably in love. Released from their incarceration, once best of friends, now bitter rivals, they agree to meet in personal combat to decide their fates. Before the battle, Emilia, Palamon and Aricte pray to obtain their hearts’s desires but one should always be careful what one prays for in this dark romance.
July 8, July 10, July 16, July 24, July 29
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