Fresh-off her first season at the Stratford Festival, BASH'd Co-Artistic Director Julia Nish-Lapidus helms this fantastical interpretation of Shakespeare's fairy tale of epic proportions. Using the intimacy of the barroom setting, the audience turns accomplice for the characters in this story, being asked to consider their own complicity in the murky sides of human nature.
Nish-Lapidus aims to anchor this sweeping story with the fierce heroine Innogen's deeply personal journey. BASH'd Associate Artistic Director Catherine Rainville, who's turn as Desdemona in last season's production of Othello garnered critical acclaim, takes on the challenging role, bringing out the character's power, and flawed and nuanced humanity. In true BASH'd style, the genders of several of the traditionally male characters have been altered, offering a unique and fresh take, and allowing more female voices to tell this complicated story. The forceful female cast bringing themselves to traditionally male roles includes Stratford Festival's Déjah Dixon-Green and Melanie Leon (Dauntless City Theatre) as the hidden heirs to Cymbeline's throne, Kiana Woo (Theatre Calgary) as Philario, who unwittingly starts the portending bet that catapults the action of the play, and Bailey Green as Pisanio, Innogen's confidante, illuminating a deep female relationship at the centre of the story.Tuesday, February 4 - 7pm
Wednesday, February 5 - 7pm
Thursday, February 6 - 7pm
Friday, February 7 - 7pm
Saturday, February 8 - 2pm
Saturday, February 8 - 7pm
Sunday, February 9 - 2pm
$20 online at www.shakespearebashd.com
$25 at the door
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