Cymbeline
Shakespeare. You’ve heard of him. This play has all the vicious quips, bloody blades, cross-dressed ladies, and compromised bedchambers you’ve come to expect from the man. But then things get nuts. It’s a no-holds-barred epic, a dark fairy tale set off by a king’s rash verdict and a princess who won’t stand for her man’s wrongful banishment. The acclaimed director of Lifeline Theatre’s Hunger and Irish Theatre of Chicago’s The White Road, recently seen onstage in our production of The Arsonists, makes his Strawdog directing debut.
★★★ “… finds a sure footing through the derivative thickets to deliver a mostly charming and sometimes quite-affecting evening. Toss in a couple of brilliantly comic turns and some stellar fight scenes (the latter created by Matt Hawkins), and it makes the case … to head to Howard Street to check it out.”—Chicago Tribune
RECOMMENDED “… Strawdog Theatre Company’s production, directed by Robert Kauzlaric, manages to make good sport out of unspectacular material, with a talented cast that relishes the silliness of the play as if it were the Bard’s most luscious verse … The ensemble work is strong … Strawdog makes much of the space in The Factory Theater, where crates and fabric equally become opulent palace and wilderness.”—New City
RECOMMENDED “… Strawdog Theatre’s adaptation, directed by Robert Kauzlaric, sorts through the play’s dense web of cunning betrayals and mistaken identities with admirable precision. It’s also inexplicably funny.”—Chicago Reader
Cast
Terry Bell
as Arviragus
Dan Cobbler
as Guiderius
Andres Enriquez
as Lord
Sarah Goeden*
as Queen
Sam Hubbard*
as Posthumus
Martel Manning
as Belarius
Jose Nateras
as Iachimo
Jillian Patterson
as Helen
Daniella Pereira*
as Imogen
Michaela Petro*
as Pisanio
Michael Reyes*
as Cornelius/Philario
Shane Rhoades
as Lord
Brandon Saunders
as Cymbeline
Dwight Sora
as Caius Lucius
Gage Wallace*
as Cloten
Creative Team
William Shakespeare
Author
Robert Kauzlaric
Director
Spencer Diedrick
Assistant Director
Alan Donahue
Set Design
Jordan Kardasz
Light Design
Brittany Dee Bodley
Costume Design
Alan Donahue
Props Design
Andrew Hansen
Sound Design
Matt Hawkins
Fight Choreographer
Becca Levy*
Stage Manager
* Strawdog Theatre ensemble member