The Fringe Show: The Beard of Avon

Description

By Amy Freed
Directed by Steve Boyle

In the Sinsheimer-Stanley Festival Glen

July 29th and August 5th ONLY
(All Fringe Show Tickets are $16.00)

In this mad-cap comedy a swain known as "Will Shakspere" who longs to be an artist flees his rural life for the stages of Elizabethan London. Did this novice actor become the ghost writer for the Earl of Oxford, Sir Francis Bacon, and even Queen Elizabeth? Authors too proud to admit they scribbled plays for the unwashed masses? This intelligent and fun-filled farce deliberates the longstanding debate over who really penned Shakespeare's canon. With a gleeful wink at intervening centuries, Amy Freed's deliciously witty The Beard of Avon portrays Will's comic struggles to become an artist in his own right in this bawdy, hilarious, conspiracy-laden origin story of how a poor hayseed with wild dreams found himself in over his head and became the man we know as Shakespeare.

"I have great...thought-like 'things' within my head--"
-Act I, scene i

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch

Photo Credits:

The Glen: The Taming of the Shrew, 2013. Toby Onwumere, Mike Ryan, Nicholas Harazin, Robert Nelson and Charles Pasternak. Photo: Shmuel Thaler

Charles Pasternak Henry V: Henry V, 2013. Charles Pasternak and VC Heidenreich. Photo: RR Jones

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http://santacruzshakespeare.org/

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831-459-2159 (Box Office)

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