The Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival Newsletter • Summer 2017

Imagine Shakespeare's Journey Home to the Forest of Arden, If You Like By Heather Helinsky, dramaturg

n 1599, the year historians By the summer or early fall of “How heavy do I journey on the way, believe that As You Like It was 1599, William needed to leave his busy When what I seek, my weary travel’s end, Iwritten, William Shakespeare cosmopolitan life in London behind Doth teach that ease and that repose to say, was already a busy, successful poet of him and go home. His wife’s mother “Thus far the miles are measured from thy the theatre. By then, he had possibly was dying. Shakespeare’s parents, both friend!” seventeen or nineteen plays already of whom were still alive, were in their The beast that bears me, tired with my woe, rotating in the repertory of the Lord seventies and in need of care. Shake- Plods dully on…. Chamberlain’s Men. It was the same speare’s daughters, Susanna and Judith, …For that same groan doth put this in my summer that the Globe Theatre was were entering their teenage years; six- mind: under construction. England was at war teen and fourteen respectively. Shake- My grief lies onward and my joy behind.” on two fronts with both an Irish rebel- speare’s only living sister, Joan, was get- lion and the Spanish Armada. However, ting married. A few months after Joan’s What could have been on Shake- in spite of all this, sometimes family wedding, she gave birth to a son, who speare’s mind in between London and takes priority. she named after his godfather: William. home in Stratford-upon-Avon, near the Birth and death: the infant “mewling Forest of Arden? Did he rush home? and puking in the nurses arms” and Did he stop at the taverns along the “the last scene of all that ends this way? Did he run into soldiers being strange eventful history”…but in the mustered to go to war? As he passed middle of all of that, a wedding. The the farmers and shepherds working lovers. Shakespeare’s sister in love! And in the fields, did it stir up childhood his two young daughters transforming memories? into adulthood, faster than Shakespeare probably preferred. Shakespeare’s family was a long line of farmers, and his childhood would A seventeenth century biographer, have been spent in the surrounding John Aubrey, was told by Shake- woods and fields, and in tiny towns with speare’s neighbors that Shake- traditional seasonal festivals and folk speare “was wont to go to War- customs. But Shakespeare was now a wickshire once a year.” Based on man of the world, a man of London, maps of the time, the road home and a man of some wealth. He recently was a little less than 100 miles; a bought his family a new house in Strat- three days journey on horseback if ford that cost one hundred and twenty the roads were dry and the weather pounds. He played one role in town as was fair. Often, the roads were not the harried and successful playwright, well-maintained and English weather another role in the countryside as the not always sunny. One eldest brother responsible for providing doesn’t have to imag- for his family. ine much to under- stand Shakespeare’s But what was his state as he traveled Main Stage emotion of leaving in-between? his active theatre JULY 20 - AUG 6 company behind to There’s the romantic and pastoral return to his family’s idea of a country life, but was that what country life, as Sonnet Shakespeare saw as he traveled between 50 records. London and Warwickshire? Perhaps, if

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As You Like It is our festive comedy, bringing poignancy and delight, as Rosa- lind and friends seek to reconnect with their humanity in the Forest of Arden. Susan Henry Martin & Brenda & John James T. Martin, Jr Troilus and Cressida is the 29th of McGlade Shakespeare’s plays PSF has produced, and will provide a rare opportunity to see this striking play, classified as a comedy, Kathleen Kund Nolan & Dr. James & but which defies categorization. Heroic Timothy E. Nolan Penny Pantano ideals meet tarnished realities that care little for the love between Troilus and Cressida. This production is in the hands Drs. Paul & of the actors, who take charge in our June Schlueter “extreme Shakespeare” process, which mirrors many of the circumstances of Elizabethan rehearsals. Festival Host Find some kids somewhere and bring them to the deliriously engaging produc- tions of The Ice Princess and Shakespeare for Kids, each of which run through the first week in August. PSF is a participant in the Audience (R)Evolution Cohort Grants program, funded by the And, pre-show, experience our newly Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and administered by Theatre Communications Group, enhanced outdoor environment, On the the national organization for the professional not-for-profit American theatre. Green, where you can now enjoy our new terrace seating under the tent. Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival’s PSF receives state arts funding summer productions of As You Like It support through a grant from We look forward to seeing you in the and Troilus & Cressida, as well as the 2017 the Pennsylvania Council on the lobby. Thank you for joining us. fall WillPower tour of Romeo and Juliet, Arts, a state agency funded by the are part of Shakespeare in American Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Communities, a program of the National and the National Endowment for Endowment for the Arts in partnership the Arts, a federal agency. with Arts Midwest. 2 • The Quill, Summer 2017 610.282.WILL www.pashakespeare.org As You Like It, continued search to find a place in the world. being in conversation with the history Rosalind suffers the loss of her father’s of these plays and how Shakespeare’s it was a festival season, farmers would presence and power at court, Orlando company would have worked on them.” be out celebrating the harvest with the suffers from his older brother. All this traditional pagan celebration, “Har- makes the backdrop of romance more Pfeiffer will also bring on another vest Home.” Records of the time tell a palpable. Now I suddenly find myself familiar collaborator, sound design- different story. Stratford was struggling. hearing this play in a new way.” er Alex Bechtel, into his production. The fires of 1594 and 1595 destroyed In the past, Pfeiffer has interwoven 200 houses in Stratford. The great For- While the plot of As You Like It spirited live music, something that has est of Arden had been cut down from has similarities to Lodge's novel, two become a trademark of his aesthetics. its original size over the years; cleared characters are Shakespeare’s original However, with As You Like It, Pfeiffer for pastures, cornfields, and iron mines. invention: Jaques and Touchstone. Both may change up his approach. As You Those who worked the fields often Like It begins in the restrictive and dan- were homeless and seasonally unem- gerous world of the court. Esau Pritch- ployed. Those who were wealthy could ett makes his PSF debut as Duke Fred- hoard grain in the barns and then profit erick who has overthrown his brother off the poor farmers as they suffered Duke Senior, Rosalind’s father. “The from bad harvests. court is an oppressive environment, and once the characters escape from Pastoral literature is escapist and the court to the forest, they can shed Elizabethans hungered for it. The coun- these restrictions.” It’s still important try provides the setting for pure roman- for Pfeiffer to hold on to his musical tic love. Shepherds spend their days in aesthetics, to allow Shakespeare’s poetry the fields writing poetry to a beautiful to breathe. shepherdess. In pastoral literature, shepherds are free of the complexity What Pfeiffer finds emotionally true and corruption of court life. Poets of about the story is that when we experi- Elizabethan England, many of whom inject satire into the gentle form of ence loss, like Rosalind and Orlando, we came from wealthier backgrounds than pastoral romance. There’s a hard edge retreat into ourselves. Pfeiffer finds a Shakespeare and educated at Oxford, to their humor not found in traditional powerful metaphor in Rosalind needing romanticized the pastoral life as easy, pastoral. Pfeiffer decided to cast Ian to escape into the clothes of a man to lazy, and idyllic. Edmund Spenser, Merrill Peakes, whom he originally saw discover her true inner self. Christopher Marlowe, Sir Philip Sidney, at PSF as Orlando, as the dour Jaques, Robert Greene are a few of many writ- who delivers the famous speech of Dressed as a man, Rosalind discov- ers of the time that made the pastoral “The Seven Ages of Man.” ers an inner confidence to woo her love fashionable. In 1588, the courtier and Orlando. Dressed as a woman, Rosa- poet Thomas Lodge, on a tedious sea Pfeiffer has also cast some familiar lind finds herself in dire straits and is voyage to the Canaries, wrote a pastoral collaborators from prior PSF produc- trapped from doing anything about it as romance called Rosalynde: Euphues Golden tions. Marnie Schulenburg and Zack far as her gender will allow. Legacy that once published, became an Robidas, who have played romantic instant best-seller in 1590, and frequent- leads in Pfeiffer’s productions of Henry ly reprinted. V and The Two Gentleman of Verona, continues on page 6 will return to play Rosalind and Orlan- However, Shakespeare did not take do, respectively. Dan Hodge, who the easy road and turn As You Like It appeared in clownish roles in into a light romantic comedy. While PSF’s The Taming of the Shrew the play certainly delivers Shakespeare’s and Pfeiffer’s production of usual wit and romance, As You Like A Midsummer Night’s Dream It experiments with mixing light and at the Arden Theatre Com- dark. This rendering of both sides of pany in Philadelphia, will the forest is what drew director Matt play Touchstone. These re- Pfeiffer to investigate the play this turning company members summer at PSF. “I first sawAs You Like work well together with Marnie Schulenburg It at PSF in 1996, when I was nineteen Pfeiffer’s ideas about how Rosalind years old, starring Ian Merrill Peakes as to embrace Shakespeare’s Zack Robidas Orlando. I’ve been fortunate to work plays for a 21st century au- Orlando on Shakespeare’s plays most of my dience. “We’ve basically spent True Love. adult life. This is now my 19th season one hundred years conceptu- Marnie Schulenburg and Zack Robidas, at PSF. Now as an adult, I realize that alizing Shakespeare’s plays and it who play the lovers Rosalind and Orlando, there was a darkness to the play as these was necessary and inspiring work. characters grapple with loss and their But I’m more deeply interested in are married in real life and have been together for 11 years. www.pashakespeare.org London is the New Troy

very culture has an ori- Thames, which becomes “Troia Nova” the siege of Rouen, and continued to gin story; a narrative that (New Troy). After Brutus’ twenty-four gain followers. Over the next decade, Eexplains how a nation of year reign as the first King of Britain, Essex dubbed so many knights, making people settled down and answers the he divides the island up amongst his them swear allegiance directly to him, fundamental questions of existence. three sons who become the patriarchs it became difficult for Elizabeth to How did we get here? These myths of England, Scotland, and Wales. Only revoke titles from all Essex’s men. were often passed down through tradi- much later, according to this legend, tional storytelling, perhaps with some does the city of Troynovant get re- In 1598, as Shakespeare began basis in historical truth. named to London. writing Henry V, Hamlet, and As You Like It, the Earl of Essex led his loyal Elizabethan England certainly did While this myth gave Elizabethans knights on an unsuccessful military not lack dramatic origin stories. Shake- a direct connection to the heroes of campaign in Ireland. It’s possible that speare’s history plays are based on real classical literature, there was another this approaching war was personally people, places, and events that Shake- reason why they were obsessed with significant for Shakespeare, as his wife’s speare uses to dramatize England’s the story of the fall of Troy. According younger brother John was conscripted journey into a nation ruled by Queen to tradition, Troy was a city of mer- into the military and recorded on the Elizabeth I. chants. If Troy fell, and London was muster rolls, although it’s not certain if "New Troy," what did that mean to the John was sent to fight Spanish forces However, medieval England growing class of merchants in London or on Essex’s Irish campaign. believed in another origin story: that who were becoming more powerful London was once called "Troynovant" than the older, feudal aristocrats of Of course, a wealthy Earl can or "New Troy" and that Englishmen England? make promises to his countrymen that were the direct descendants of Aene- he will bring back the glory days of as, one of the respected heroes of the Shakespeare wrote his plays during English knighthood, but those prom- Trojan War. uncertain political times. Queen Eliz- ises didn't hold up well in the woods abeth not only faced challenges from and bogs of Ireland. After Essex put In Geoffrey of Monmouth’s 12th abroad with the Spanish Armada, but on a big ceremonial show in Dublin century chronicle Historia Regum from within as members of the old on St. George’s Day in 1599, he led Britanniae, Brutus was the name of aristocracy thought they could outma- four thousand foot soldiers and five the first King of Britain. Ac- neuver a woman. One such challenger hundred cavalry through the Irish cording to legend, Brutus was the Earl of Essex, who was known countryside, looking for a fight. The is the great-grandson of as “England’s Achilles.” Irish, seeing this pageantry, decided to Aeneas who travels to keep the English on the move, drawing Greece and comes The Earl of Essex had an extreme- them deeper into the Irish countryside, upon a group of ly antagonistic relationship with the and avoiding conflicts. After a length Trojan refugees who Queen, as his chivalric beliefs about of time, young Englishmen, anxious have been enslaved by knighthood did not align with the real- for glory through battle, started a series the Greeks. Bru- ity of a female monarch. Not only did of foolish maneuvers. Tempers flared. tus becomes their Essex secretly correspond with Spain Some grew bored and went back home leader and forces and Scotland to undermine her succes- to England. Essex had promised these the Greek king sion to the throne, but he also made men military glory, but had no plan. to let them go. openly disrespectful remarks about her Rumors began to make their way back Brutus and his physical appearance. While most court- to London and Queen Elizabeth’s Trojan refu- iers praised Elizabeth for her beauty, court. Keeping men on the battlefield gees then sail hoping for her favor, the Earl of Essex indefinitely was expensive. away to find a publicly insulted her as an “aging wom- new homeland. an.” Queen Elizabeth I, however, held Essex had organized one of the After sailing by her ground in these public quarrels and largest forces to fight the Irish, yet it North Africa would sometimes bestow favors on the only led to a series of inconclusive and Gaul, they Earl of Essex, only to take them away. battles. He returned to England in dis- finally hear about grace. Queen Elizabeth soon stripped the island of Al- In response, the Earl of Essex tried him of his office and put him under bion, where giants to stir up a nationalist movement to be- house arrest. live. King Brutus come the savior of English interests in defeats the giants on Ireland against the Irish leader the Earl Essex continued to lose all his Albion and builds a of Tyrone. In 1591, Essex took it upon wealth and power and when he was city along the river himself to dub twenty-one knights at released in 1601, he began organizing a 4 • The Quill, Summer 2017 610.282.will conspiracy against Elizabeth. He stirred both sides are impatient, looking for clothes. Even the characters are up followers who were upset with some opportunity to declare a clear aware that this Trojan War will Elizabeth’s reign. Then, he sought out winner so they can all go home. By make them famous one the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, Shake- Act II, the Greeks offer the Trojans an day, and their behavior speare’s acting company, and offered olive branch—give the famous beauty will be under scrutiny to pay them 40 shillings more if they who started this whole war, Helen of many generations would perform a special production of Troy, back and we can all go home. later. However, that Richard II, in which an English mon- doesn’t stop them arch is deposed. That plan was quickly The Trojans are tempted to take from scheming, discovered and Essex then led a hasty this offer. But will they? Enter Troilus teasing, flirting, rebellion of about 200 people against the Trojan, a young soldier in love. plotting, whin- the Queen. He was arrested, charged Shakespeare turns this war play into ing, conniving, as a traitor, and beheaded in February a love story, where Troilus is more and generally 1601 in the Tower of London. Romeo then Henry V. We meet Troilus showing the ready to discard his armor because he’s worst of human Shakespeare’s Troilus & Cressida was wounded by Cupid’s arrow over Cres- nature. The fool written shortly after the Essex uprising. sida. Forget Helen of Troy—Troilus Thersites, on His acting company was shaken up by can’t live without his beautiful Cressida. the Greek side, interrogations, as they narrowly avoid- watches this bad ed involvement in Essex’s plans against Shakespeare always finds the behavior with the Queen. As a writer, Shakespeare humanity in these classical characters glee. would have to be careful not to take and surprises the audience with new sides, but the play expresses discontent insights about human nature. In his While time with fighting a long, pointless, mean- plays, we meet wise fools and fool- creates a sense of ingless war. ish advisors. Shakespeare could have historical distance followed the Western literary tradition, with the Trojan War, While it can be said of many of like Chaucer, of siding with the Trojans Shakespeare shows us Shakespeare’s plays that their foreign as the more romantic heroes while the a side of the Trojan location is a substitute for Elizabethan Greeks are the boorish antagonists. War that’s uncertain, London, setting his next play in Troy Instead, Shakespeare shows us both dangerous and even absurd. certainly was an easily recognizable sides of the battlefield, finding drama Shakespeare still gives some hope metaphor for his contemporary audi- and passion in all of these soldiers as to hold onto, in the midst of intermi- ences. After all, Essex was England’s flawed humans with petty foibles. And nable war, two people can fall in love. Achilles. somehow, Shakespeare even finds com- And perhaps, as Shakespeare shows edy in this long, unrelenting war. us his version of the Trojan War, we Since the story of the Trojan War can gain some insights to the larger was familiar to every Elizabethan In the end, we experience a play questions: how did we get here, on this schoolboy who learned Latin by trans- where Greeks and Trojans act and battlefield, and what can we learn from lating passages of Homer, Virgil, and behave more like Shakespeare’s con- these ancient characters? Ovid, Shakespeare takes the advantage temporaries than their classical coun- by starting in the middle of the war, terparts. Elizabethan knights on the where both sides are stalled. Men on battlefield are just dressed in Trojan By Heather Helinsky, dramaturg

No director, no designers... Just great actors For this production, there are no directors or designers in the conventional sense. The actors arrive with their lines learned, stage the play, and open after a few days of rehearsal, bringing us one step closer to the excitement and spontaneity experienced in an Elizabethan playhouse.

Mairin Lee Brandon J. Pierce Lindsay Smiling Luigi Sotille Susan Riley Stevens Greg Wood Cressida Troilus Agamemnon Hector Thersites Ulysses Schubert Theatre www.pashakespeare.org July 26 thru Aug 6 The Quill, Summer 2017 • 5 As You Like It, continued

She’s without father, lover, or other times, gentle spring when Shake- with any kind of romantic or nostalgic money, so by changing her outward speare needs to introduce a pair of lens like the rest of his contemporaries: appearance, she can take actions to lovers. Even the trees are from differ- the forest can be brutal, the road can save herself. ent environments: sometimes it’s an old be long, and the wildlife different from oak, other times it’s a palm tree—and civilization. Those who do well at court Yet, Rosalind constantly transforms these trees are covered in poetry. There may struggle in the politics of the for- between her masculine persona of are both deer and lions in this forest. est. Yet, the mixture of civilization and “Ganymede” and her female emotions. Pastures for sheep and deserts for wildness provides an opportunity for Part of the joyous comedy of the play snakes. There’s so much in this forest, imagination, creativity, and witty hu- is watching her transformation. it’s as if the Forest of Arden is a the- mor: here in the forest, with a hodge- atre itself, keeping the stagehands busy podge of country and city folk, The audience experiences the irony shifting scenery. Shakespeare’s poetry soars over the of knowing Rosalind is both in control trees. and not in control of her behavior. She Perhaps this play is more like the performs in one moment, yet under the road between London and Shake- And for director Matt Pfeiffer, who spell of love in the next. She appears to speare’s hometown. Shakespeare is in has changed much over the past nine- act like many of Shakespeares’s strong- the middle of his career, the middle of teen years working at the Pennsylvania willed women, yet is also incredibly his life, dealing with aging parents and Shakespeare Festival, As You Like It is vulnerable and conflict- growing teenage daughters. As a Lon- an opportunity to explore all of life’s ed. As an audience, we doner, he’s shed his youthful country transitions, from his youthful under- witness the power of persona and applied for a family coat standing of Shakespeare’s plays to his transformation: how of arms, to continue his career as a current musical aesthetic choices. As he Rosalind trans- gentleman. Perhaps that’s why he needs returns from a busy season directing in forms herself the satire of Jaques and the clownish center city Philadelphia, escaping for and at the same behavior of Touchstone to take the au- the summer to the pastoral beauty of time the Forest dience through the seven stages of life Center Valley, what new discoveries will of Arden that we all march through: the infant, be found in Shakespeare’s poetry this time? “It feels like a great time,” says Esau Pritchett transforms the schoolboy, the lover, the soldier, the her. Pfeiffer, “to offer an audience a chance Duke Frederick, justice, the pantalone, and the old man. It’s not just these stages of life that to grapple with time, age, and ultimate- Duke Senior Shake- Shakespeare dramatizes, but the stages ly the ways in which we love; from speare also in-between each. Rosalind may try to frivolity, to raw desire, to life-altering magically school Orlando in what it means to be love—it's all in there.” transforms a lover, but what are the bumps and the Forest obstacles and underbrush in the way to Source: For more on Shake- of Arden to get from one state to the other? speare in 1599, reference suit his own James Shapiro’s landmark purposes. On this journey, Shakespeare takes book: A Year in the Life of Wil- liam Shakespeare: 1599. New Ian Merrill Peakes Sometimes us to one of the spaces of his English York: Harper Collins Publishers, Jaques it is brutal childhood: the magical forest and hard winter, country life. Yet, he does not present it 2005.

James A. Bartholomew, PSF Welcomes New Members Esquire is an attorney and shareholder with the law firm to the Board of Fitzpatrick Lentz & Bubba of Center Valley, Pennsyl- Composed of volunteers from around the region, PSF's vania. He concentrates his Board of Directors serve as community representatives practice in estate planning, that support the company’s mission and administration. estate and trust administration, and business law PSF is proud to welcome four new board members: James and served as Solicitor of the Southern Lehigh A. Bartholomew, Thomas S. Lubben, Andy McIntyre, and School District for more than 35 years. He has Stefanie B. Wexler. served as a past Board Member of the United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley and Chair of "We have long been blessed with a caring, engaged, its Endowment Committee and as past Board and insightful Board of Directors," says Patrick Mulcahy, Member and President of the Lehigh Valley producing artistic director. "That tradition continues with Chamber Orchestra and Chair of its Endow- our newest members and we thank them for joining in ment Fund. promoting the good work of the Festival."

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