That Is The Question
A Few Things About Shakespeare

Playwrite 2008


Katharina (Betty Moore) and Petruchio (Damion Rinaldi) share an intimate moment.

Francis Flute (Wesley Swedenburg) prepares for his role as a wandering knight – a role which Peter Quince (Damion Rinaldi) must explain is actually a damsel in distress.

Hal (Wesley Swedenburg) sizes up Falstaff (Megan Cox) for the gallows.
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Two lovers (Eric Cox and Betty Moore) part while an evil king (Megan Cox) plots their permanent separation.

Nick Bottom (Betty Moore) considers the pleas of the rest of the Rude Mechanicals (L. to R. Megan Cox, Damion Rinaldi, Eric Cox, Nora Sackett and Wesley Swedenburg).
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The Ghost of Hamlet’s Father (Wesley Swedenburg) suggests burning at the stake as an option to a suicidal Romeo (Betty Moore) standing over the supposed corpse of Juliet (Nora Sackett).

Two soldiers (Eric Cox and Alexis Robison) meet in a battle that will decide the fate of Scotland.

The armies meet, leaving the hills red…with blood!

(L. to R.) Megan Cox, Nora Sackett, Damion Rinaldi, Betty Moore and Wesley Swedenburg explain that “all the world’s a stage.”

All the World’s a Stage: “T he whining school-boy, with his satchel and shining morning face.”
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All the World’s a Stage: “Creeping like snail, unwillingly to school.”

All the World’s a Stage: “A Soldier…jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, seeking the bubble reputation even in the cannon's mouth.”

All the World’s a Stage: “The sixth age shifts into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, with spectacles on nose and pouch on side.”

Poins (Nora Sackett) tells Hal (Wesley Swedenburg) the details of trick to be played on Falstaff.