Miles Memorial Playhouse
1130 Lincoln Blvd
310.998.8765
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Theatre
Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Company presents the Wicked Wilde Shakespeare Festival
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- When
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May 28, 2010 – June 27, 2010
Thursdays–Sundays
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- Price
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$15 - 40
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“Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Company is renowned for their all-female versions of classic plays, a variation on the Shakespearean practice of males playing both male and female roles. This presentation of fast-paced versions of four classics is collectively titled The Wicked Wilde Shakespeare Festival; and for the occasion, the theater company has thrown some male actors into the mix, though not necessarily in their expected roles. These plays serve as intriguing explorations of gender biases that persist even in modern times, via the great poetry and truth in the works of two master playwrights who loved a good plot twist — the Bard, and Oscar Wilde.”
Karin E. Baker, Flavorpill
Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Festival says:
The Wicked Wilde Shakespeare Festival: Streamlined, gender-bending versions of classic plays in a five-week summer theater festival from the Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Company. Macbeth3 is a bold, one-hour retelling of Shakespeare's creepiest tragedy in which three male actors perform a dozen roles, including Lady Macbeth and the diabolical Porter. A Tyrant's Tale is a gripping and fantastical one-hour adaptation of the Bard's The Winter's Tale that explores the nature of leadership, loyalty, and the redemptive power of enduring love. A gender-bent version of The Importance of Being Earnest features Lisa Wolpe as Jack and John Achorn as Lady Bracknell, highlighting the role-playing inherent in courtship and underscoring the play's unconventional attitudes towards romance and sexuality. In Lovers and Madmen, an all female, student cast performs a selection of scenes from Shakespeare, playing both men and women in an inverted version of the Elizabethan practice of male actors playing everyone from Coriolanus to Cleopatra, and deftly exploring the meta-theatrical commentary on gender and sexuality inherent in Shakespeare's writing.
