“I doubt not then but innocence shall make
False accusation blush and tyranny
Tremble at patience…”
When Leontes, King of Sicilia, falsely accuses his wife of an affair with his best friend, he sets into motion a series of events that catapult two kingdoms into disarray in William Shakespeare’s sweeping romance of passion and forgiveness.
Director Elizabeth Swain, fresh from Antaeus’s award-winning 2022 production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet brings her vast knowledge of the canon to tackling the timely question, “How do you forgive the unforgivable?”
“I’ve got to find out which view is the right one, society’s or mine…”
On Christmas Eve, Nora Helmer, whose world is built entirely around her domineering husband, must confront blackmail, financial ruin, the consequences of her past actions, and the unsettling truth about her life.
Legendary filmmaker Ingmar Bergman’s adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s 1879 masterpiece, A Doll’s House distills the play down to its essential core. Director Cameron Watson (Antaeus’s Top Girls, Picnic, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Little Foxes) explores the passion and heart of a woman — and a marriage — in crisis.
“Oh, pleasure, pleasure! What else should bring one anywhere?”
When bachelors Jack and Algernon both create alter egos named “Ernest” the lies quickly spiral into chaos, hilarity, cucumber sandwiches, and Victorian handbags.
Oscar Wilde’s “Trivial Comedy for Serious People,” with its sparkling wit, quotable lines, and unforgettable characters promises to be just the antidote for our own troubling times. Antaeus Company member Gregg T. Daniel (Wedding Band) helms this delightful high farce.
Photo: Cherish Monique Duke in Everybody (2022) by Jenny Graham
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