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2 A sad tale’s best for winter: I have one of sprites and goblins. -The Winter’s Tale Support SBTS by texting the word Festival to 310-402-2215 Shakespeare by the Sea - Timeless Tales. Ticketless Admission. Priceless Experience 3 Enhance Your Shakespearience: Bard’s Box Stageside Dining Celebrate in style with deluxe stageside dining. Package includes: reserved festi- val seating, gourmet picnic, dessert, and a commemorative program. Bard’s Box Stageside Dining offered at only four performances: June 16 and 23, and August 17 and 18 Opening Toast - June 16 Celebrate the kick-off of our 21st season at Point Fermin Park. We serve the entire audience sparkling cider and raise our glasses in one big giant TOAST! Stageside Chats Spend 20 minutes stage-side before the show for informal, open-forum chit-chats with directors, designers, and members of the production team. Most Saturdays (except for 6/16) approximately 1 hour prior to curtain. 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Priceless Experience 5 June 14 - August 18, 2018 Lisa Coffi Producing Artistic Director Suzanne Dean Associate Artistic Director Stephanie Coltrin Associate Producer Artistic & Production Staff Cylan Brown Director Sara Haddadin Tour Manager Aaron Jackson Scenic Designer Diana Mann Costume Designer Jessica Westerfield Sound Designer Kira Sherman Stage Manager Scenic Design Illustration: Aaron Jackson Cinthia Nava-Palmer Sound Engineer Amy Zidell Webmaster who decide to take revenge by telling Page and Ford of the letters. Holly Baker-Kreiswirth Press Relations Page dismisses the matter, but Ford is suspicious of his wife’s fidelity Michelle Roshanzamir Mktg Assoc. & VolCoord. and decides to test it. He gets the Host of the Garter to introduce him Viola He LACAC Internr to Falstaff as ‘Master Brook’. The Host also spies an opportunity to pull a Cast of Characters prank on Dr. Caius and Evans by directing them to different places for Mistress Page Bridgid M. Rose their imminent duel. Master Page Ryan Knight The two ladies compare their letters, quickly realize that Falstaff is Mistress Ford Ellen Girvin Master Ford Robert O’Hare trying to woo them both, and decide to teach him a lesson. Mistress Falstaff Tom Killam Quickly brings Falstaff a message from Mistress Ford, asking him to visit Mistress Quickly Leah Dalrymple her. Meanwhile, ‘Brook’ has persuaded Falstaff to act as a go-between Fenton Isaac Jay to Ford’s wife on his behalf, and when he learns about the appoint- Doctor Caius B.J. Allman ment Falstaff has already made, he is furious, and resolves to catch Sir Hugh Evans Jonathan Fisher him. Falstaff is in the middle of expressing his love to Mistress Ford Shallow Glen Eaton when Mistress Page brings news of Ford’s approach. Falstaff escapes by Slender Kieran Flanagan hiding in a laundry basket and he is dumped in a ditch. Ford is embar- Rugby/Nym/Robert Piper Power rassed in front of his friends to find no-one with his wife. Anne Page/Robin Samantha Winters Simple/Pistol/John Sean Spencer Mistress Quickly brings Falstaff another invitation from Ford’s wife. ‘Brook’ meets Falstaff and learns what happened at the previous encoun- SYNOPSIS from PlayShakespeare.com ter, and that a second appointment has been made. Once again Ford Justice Shallow, his nephew Slender, and parson arrives during the meeting, but this time Falstaff escapes when the wives Evans are upset at the behaviour of Falstaff and his disguise him as Mistress Ford’s fat, old aunt. The ladies then tell their associates, Nym, and Pistol who have been hunting husbands what has happened, and all four decide to punish Falstaff. on his land. Slender is one of several suitors for Anne Page, and her father’s favorite. Evans sends a message The women persuade Falstaff to disguise himself as fabled Herne the to Mistress Quickly, Doctor Caius’ housekeeper and a hunter, wearing antlers, and meet them at night in Windsor Park, where friend of Anne, asking her to help Slender’s suit. Caius they plan to frighten him with entire town dressed as fairies. Page is also a suitor for Anne, and her mother’s favorite; decides to take advantage of the occasion by having Slender elope so when he hears of Evans’ interference, Caius sends with Ann; Mistress Page makes a similar arrangement with Caius; while him a challenge to duel. Fenton, a third suitor, also Fenton makes his own plans to run off Anne himself, with her approval. approaches Quickly, asking for her help. Falstaff is terrified by the sight of the fairies, who pinch and burn him with their tapers as they sing and chant. Slender and Caius both think Falstaff has met Mistress Ford and Mistress Page that they are eloping with the true Anne Page, but discover that they and imagines they are smitten with him. Hoping to have in fact run off with Pistol and Nym in disguise. Instead Fenton seduce the wives and gain access to their husbands’ finds and marries Anne. All reveal themselves to the discomfited Fal- wealth, He writes them both love-letters and asks staff and laugh at his folly. Fenton and Anne return as man and wife, Nym and Pistol to deliver them. When they refuse, his and the Pages accept the marriage. page Robin takes them. Falstaff dismisses his men, Copyright ©2005-2018 by PlayShakespeare.com. Shakespeare by the Sea - Timeless Tales. Ticketless Admission. Priceless Experience 7 June 21 - August 17, 2018 Lisa Coffi Producing Artistic Director Suzanne Dean Associate Artistic Director Stephanie Coltrin Associate Producer Artistic & Production Staff Stephanie Coltrin Director Sara Haddadin Tour Manager Aaron Jackson Scenic Designer Jeffrey Schoenberg Costume Designer Olivia Schlueter-Corey Wardrobe Mistress Kei’la Ryan Dance Choreographer Elena Cruz Stage Manager Scenic Design Illustration: Aaron Jackson Cintha Nava-Palmer Sound Engineer from Sicilia. Leontes then puts Hermione on trial, but Cleomenes and Amy Zidell Webmaster Dion bring the judgement from the Oracle, which proclaims Hermione, Holly Baker-Kreiswirth Press Relations Polixenes, and Camillo all innocent, and predicts that Leontes will have Michelle Roshanzamir Mktg Assoc. & VolCoord. no heir if the banished baby is not found. Leontes rejects the Oracle, Viola He LACAC Internr only to learn that his son has died. Hermione faints and is taken out. Leontes immediately repents. Paulina returns to say that Hermione is Cast of Characters dead. Leontes vows perpetual sorrow. Leontes/Bohemian Patrick Vest Paulina/Bohemian Bridgid M. Rose In Bohemia, Antigonus reluctantly leaves the baby by itself, but as he Autolycus/4th Lord/Gaoler Cylan Brown starts to return home he is killed by a bear. The baby is rescued and Polixenes B.J. Allman adopted by a Shepherd and his son, a Clown. Perdita/Mamillius Allie Pratt Antigonus/Time/Bohemian Chris Nelson The Chorus, Time, takes the play forward 16 years. Polixenes and Hermione/Dorcas Leah Dalrymple Camillo disguise themselves to be present at a sheep-shearing festival. 2nd Lord/Florizel Jonathan Cates Polixenes wants to find out what is going on with his son Florizel, who 3rd Lord/Clown Jonathan Fisher is in love with the Shepherd’s adopted daughter, now called Perdita. Camillo Greg Prusiewicz A rogue, Autolycus, after earlier picking the Clown’s pockets, comes Mopsa/Emilia/Others Olivia Schlueter-Corey to the festival to sell his wares. Dancing and singing take place, and Dion/Bohemian Ryan Knight Florizel and Perdita plan to marry. The disguised Polixenes suggests to Cleomenes/Bohemian Sean Spencer Florizel that his father should be told; when Florizel refuses, Polixenes 1st Lord/Old Shepherd Tom Killam reveals himself, and bans Florizel from seeing Perdita again.