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That Is The Question
A Few Things About Shakespeare
Playwrite 2008
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Katharina (Betty Moore) and Petruchio (Damion Rinaldi) share an intimate moment.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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. |