Set in Elizabethan England, three years following William Shakespeare’s death, the King’s Men are outraged that their friend and mentor’s brilliant plays are being pirated and wretchedly performed. The troupe is horrified when they learn through a shocking loss just how much of Shakespeare’s words are kept in memory rather than in writing. To honor “The Bard,” they become determined to preserve the work and commit to printing it all in one volume before it is lost forever.
The company’s scribe has a few scripts, and some unreliable copies of plays linger, but mostly, unbound, scripted pages have to be collected from dusty cupboards, burned buildings and those who hold the publishing rights.
Friends, family and former rivals band together to overcome the obstacles posed by death, debt, destruction, an unscrupulous printer, and time in this “wild goose chase” – a true story that will raise a new curtain on Shakespeare’s works and what it took to preserve his legacy in the First Folio.
Performances are March 8th – 30th, Thursday – Saturday nights at 7:30pm with matinees on Saturday and Sunday at 2:00.
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6th Street Playhouse
52 W. 6th Street
- Santa Rosa