THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
Just in time for April Fool’s Day, William Shakespeare’s wife shows us the foolishness of humankind in a warm, witty and family-friendly tour of her husband’s work in a one-woman performance at Guilford Art Center on Sunday, March 30. The show, Shakespeare’s Fools, starts at 4 p.m. Tickets are $10, with kids under 12 free.
In this interactive show presented by GreenStage Guilford Live Arts, Rebecca Salomonsson plays Anne Hathaway and leads us through scenes from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It and Romeo and Juliet—inviting audience members to take on the roles of other characters. Written and performed by Salomonsson, Shakespeare’s Fools is a comic send-up that familiarizes us with the storylines and characters from some of the bard’s greatest and most beloved plays.
Salomonsson is a poet and middle-school teacher who’s been acting for 28 years, teaching for 20 and writing for most of her life. While earning a BA in Theatre Arts from the University of Massachusetts, she studied at the National Shakespeare Conservatory in New York. She participated in “Shakespeare in Our Schools,” a workshop led by Shakespeare & Company of Lenox, Mass., studied with Janet Suzman of the Royal Shakespeare Company and earned a Master’s in Genre Fiction from Western Colorado University. She’s directed multiple Shakespeare productions for the professional theatre and youth programs. A Guilford resident, she currently, writes, performs and teaches eighth-grade English in Connecticut.
Tickets to Shakespeare’s Fools are limited. They’re available online at greenstageguilford.org and will be for sale at the door on the day of the show only on a space-available basis. For more information, contact GreenStage at office@greenstageguilford.org or 203-654-9482.
