PCPA closes out their summer time season of reprise productions on the Solvang Competition Theater with The Ebook of Will, an affable story of the remaining members of Shakespeare’s appearing troupe making an attempt to posthumously piece collectively the Bard’s full works from fragments of performs unfold amongst actors and collectors throughout London. Written by Lauren Gunderson, The Ebook of Will is droll and diverting, particularly for viewers members with an affinity for theater historical past.
The enjoyment of seeing reveals produced by PCPA is larger than getting misplaced within the work of the theater artists who devise lovely scenic components (on this case, numerous places all through Elizabethan London), costumes, lights, props, and sound — the gamers on the PCPA phases are all the time top quality. Andrew Philpot and Don Stewart, as John Heminges and Henry Condell (the final of Shakespeare’s actors left standing), are daring, delicate, and decided — qualities that make actors and characters (and characters who are actors) inspiring and relatable. They maintain area for the comedic and dramatic components of the journey with a stage hand. Different efficiency highlights embody Erik Stein because the gleefully diabolical William Jaggard, and George Walker as poet laureate and lascivious lush, Ben Johnson.
Philpot stated it finest when he described The Ebook of Will as a love letter to all issues Shakespeare. It is a story concerning the very first technology of Shakespeare devotees, individuals who have been moved by the performs and the poetry once they have been new. With this nod to the Bard of Avon, PCPA will carry down the curtain on their season after the ultimate efficiency of The Ebook of Will on September 10, however subsequent season is already within the works! Coming to Solvang below the celebs in 2024 are performs of music and mayhem, together with Little Store of Horrors, The Play That Goes Improper, Cabaret, and The Agitators.
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