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Free Shakepeare Performance in Deer Lodge
By admin | August 5, 2008
Paroles, played by Michael Perez with Helena, played by Abbey Siegworth
ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Joel Jahnke, Designed by Claudia Boddy
August 13th at 6pm in the Old Montana Prison Yard
FREE Admission
CAST
MARK KUNTZ- Company manager- ninth tour
TONYA ANDREWS- fourth tour
EDDIE BENNETT
LEAH DUTCHIN- third tour
JOE GARLOCK- second tour
SARAH LOVELAND
DANNY LUWE
MICHAEL PEREZ
CHISTOPHER PRENTICE
ABBEY SIEGWORTH- Asst. company manager- fifth tour
ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL
One of the Bard’s least-produced plays, it is an exemplary counterpoint to Macbeth, one of Shakespeare’s most well-known plays.
Largely lumped into a group of plays that scholars call the “problem plays,” the problem is not with the dialogue; the problem is that the play does not fall into any neat and tidy category. All’s Well, for example,
has elements of romance and elements of comedy, but it’s neither. It has plenty of drama, but it’s not completely a serious play. It has elements of Shakespeare’s historic and tragic plays. There’s even a bit of sex farce. We don’t know what to call it. That’s the problem – but only for file clerks.
Bertram, a young braggart soldier who dreams of military greatness and who places social station above virtually everything else, sets off to serve the King of France. Simply put: he’s a snob. Beautiful Helena, a young woman who serves Bertram’s mother has fallen passionately in love with Bertram. Secretly, she follows him to Paris.
A dying king is miraculously cured by Helena, whose father was a famous physician. Overjoyed at being alive, the king allows Helena to choose anyone in the kingdom to marry and, of all people, she chooses the truculent Bertram. He is forced to consent to the marriage but decides that he would rather die in battle than stay married to Helena and so flees to Florence to fight in the Italian wars.
Playing out from that point in typical Shakespearean fashion – boy hates girl, girl is determined to get boy, boy is played for a fool, girl triumphs in the end – we’re derailed along the way with some of the Bard’s greatest comic writing in a witty, wry story that, in the end, turns out to have been a fairy tale all along.
All’s Well That Ends Well will be directed by MSIP Artistic Director JOEL JAHNKE.
Montana Shakespeare in the Parks
brings professional productions at no cost to the public to communities throughout Montana, northern Wyoming, and eastern Idaho. Remarkably self-sufficient, the touring company features 10 professional actors supported by a variety of designers and technicians who work together to bring theatre to communities that may otherwise not have access to it.
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