It is 2018 and our country is in crisis: alienated, insular, and divided. In an attempt to preserve tradition, Cymbeline, pressured by his self-serving wife, arranges for his daughter and heir, Imogen, to be married off to a privileged, arrogant example of male toxicity. Her refusal and subsequent foray into the forest in disguise begins a journey fraught with danger, power, and jealousy. Will she persist?
Setting the stage, Act 1 Scene 1, Imogen & Posthumus (Nia Calloway & Myles Phillips)
Mourning Song, Act 4 Scene 2, Arviragus and Guiderius (Claire Alexander & Callan Suozzi-Rearic)
The Battle, Act 5 Scenes 1&2, All Cast
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Directed by Emily Gallagher
Produced by She Doth Persist: the collaboration from some of the minds behind Barefoot Shakespeare Company and Occupy Verona
Assistant Directed by Lauren Lay
Stage Managed by Margaret Baughman
Production Manager/Volunteer Coordinator: Emily Thaler
Production Apprentices: Avery Wrenn and Victoria Donnelly
Movement Director: Arden Winant
Fight Director: Rob Aronowitz
Music Director: Jim Kivlen
Props: Samantha K. Gronwoldt
Costumes: Suzan Eraslan
Dramaturg: Laurel Andersen
Imogen: Nia Calloway
Posthumus: Myles Phillips
Cymbeline: Jerry Raik
Pisanio: Alexandra Gomez
Iachimo: Joe Raik
Arviragus/Cello: Claire Alexander
Guiderius/Violin: Callan Suozzi-Rearic
Belarius: Evelyn Peralta
Queen: Emily Thaler
Cloten/Cornelius: Isaac Allen Miller
Philario/Caius Lucius: Peter Kendall