Photo Credit: Nina Westervelt, The New York Times
VERILY, MADLY, THINE (2020)
The Backyard Stage with The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey
“The emailed instructions from the box office tell you to put on your mask before you even get out of your car.Off the parking lot, the wide, curving path through the greenery is painted with white Xs for social distancing, and when it opens on a sweep of lawn, that grass too is marked — with eight-foot circles, six feet apart, each pod big enough for a family of five with blankets and chairs, a picnic if you want.
None of this is normal, of course. But if almost normal is what you’re yearning for, if an alfresco evening at the theater is a fixture of your summertimes, then the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey’s Back Yard Stage is the place: a homey oasis in our 2020 hellscape where, for a little over an hour, you get to feel like yourself again.”
- Laura Collin Hughes, The New York Times
“The Shakespeare Theatre’s Summer Triumph…
While many theatres had to postpone or cancel their calendars, Shakespeare Theatre did a pirouette, rather than a pivot.
…brilliantly directed and compiled by AC Horton…This beautiful and winsome cast, which treated us to moveable feast of art and artists, made a great sacrifice this Summer–like other professionals, they agreed to live as a family in a bubble.
Thank you for your "Crazy Love" and the brilliance of the reminder that just like love, theatre is eternal.”
- Sherri Rase, Q on Stage
CAST AND CREATIVE
Directed and Compiled by AC Horton
From the Works of William Shakespeare
Sound Design by AC Horton
Production Management by Steve L. Beckel
Skye Pagon as Rosalind / Mariah
Issac Hickox-Young as Orlando
Christian Frost.as Benedick / Malvolio
Billie Wyatt as Beatrice / Olivia
Jeffrey Marc Alkins as Orsino
Ellie Gossage as Viola
Dino Curia as Sebastian / Theseus
Katja Yacker as Celia
Wardrobe Mistress - Alisa Kunrowow
Photos by Brian B. Crowe