Troilus and Cressida
by William Shakespeare
directed by R. Kevin Garcia Doyle
July 19 - July 28, 2013
This love will undo us all ...
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Synopsis
After years of fighting, the Trojan War has reached a
standstill. The Greek forces are demoralized and on the verge of
open rebellion. The Trojans have grown so used to war that some
of their warriors are thinking more of love and less of battle.
One such Trojan is Troilus, who has fallen in love from afar
with the beautiful, witty Cressida. The tongue tied young man
employs Cressida's aunt, Pandara, to arrange an assignation
between the two young lovers.
Meanwhile, among the Greeks, Ulysses has
decided to confront their soldiers' unrest by humiliating the de
facto leader of the dissension, Achilles. Achilles spends all
day lounging around with his lover, Patroclus, and refuses to go
to battle Ulysses plots to make the Greek soldiers esteem the
oafish Ajax over the intractable Achilles in the hopes that it
will motivate the later into taking up arms.
However, when Cressida is traded to the
Greeks for a Trojan prisoner of war and when Patroclus meets
with a violent end, things turn deadly for Trojan and Greek
alike.
Cast
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Nestor Priam Troilus
Cressida Calchas Patrocles Thersites Pandara
Achiles Antenor Helen Paris Ulysses
Alexander Hector Cassandra Ajax Diomedes
Andromache Agamemnon Aenus
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Gerald Altwies Michael Bick
Alvin Chan Lacey Perrine Chu Andrew Chow Eric
Combs Shawn Forsythe Sharon Garcia Doyle Moses
Goods JEDI Linda Molina Michal Nowicki Q
Montana Rizzuto Jonathan Sypert Jackie
Tufa-Marques Albert Ueligitone Paul Yau Jasmine
Fernandez Troy Apostol Billy Comstock |
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Timon of Athens
by William Shakespeare
directed by Tony Pisculli and Eleanor Svaton
August 9 -
August 18, 2013
Timon will to the woods, where he shall find the
unkindest beast more kinder than mankind ... |
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Synopsis
Timon opens his house and his coffers
to his friends, but when the well runs dry, who will return his
favors?
Shakespeare based the character of Timon on a historical figure,
a noted misanthropist, and asked himself what could cause
someone to turn his back on all mankind?
This production, in a Hawaii Shakespeare Festival first, uses
gender-blind casting.
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Timon Apemantus Flavius
Alcibiades Poet Painter Jeweler Lucius
Lucullus Sempronius First Senator Second
Senator Third Senator Ventidius Lucilius
Flaminius Servilius Timandra Philotus Cupid
Hortensius
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Shawn A. Thomsen Joe Abraham
Victoria Brown-Wilson Stephanie Keiko Kong Kelsey
Baehreng Diana Wan Kaitlin Souza Andy Valencia
Kerrie Thornton Christine Lamborn Brooke Jones
Lisa Ahn H. R. H. Fleur Linda Johnson Daniel
Traver Jaime Bradner Rachel Uyeno Veronica
Vestal Keila Ching Victoria Sprowls Brandon
Hagio |
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As You Like It
by William Shakespeare
directed by Taurie Kinoshita
August
23 - September 1, 2013
All the world's a stage
and the men and women merely players ...
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Synopsis
As You
Like It
includes cross-dressing, family feuds, a Roman God of Marriage,
homoeroticism, dance and song, love-at-first-sight, and is one
of Shakespeare’s most celebrated comedies.
Rosalind, Shakespeare’s consummate
heroine, is exiled from the corrupted court of Duke Frederick
and travels with her best friend and cousin, Celia, along with
the inimitable Touchstone, to the golden forest of Arden
(biblical and Arcadian in tenor). Disguised as a young man,
Rosalind is chased by the shepherdess Phebe (who scorns the love
of the shepherd, Silvius), and counsels Orlando (who she loves)
in order to cure him of his love.
Love, in all its many
forms--unrequited love, courtly love, bawdy physical love,
sisterly love, paternal love—is explored in a series of
juxtapositions. Considered both a celebration and satire of the
pastoral form, As You Like It
presents a string of oppositions (Court versus Country, Nature
versus Fortune, Appearance versus Reality), weaving a pattern of
entertaining harmonies and counterpoints.
As You Like It
shows how the life-affirming spirit of love, reconciliation,
self-knowledge, wisdom and the goodness of Nature can triumph
over blind fortune and injustice. Instead of the denouement,
marriage is the ultimate climax of love;
As You Like It
confirms marriage as an institution, along with the return of
civilization’s other institutions, made possible not by the
forest, but by the natural goodness in us all.
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Orlando Rosalind Phebe Oliver Celia
Company
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Patrick Karjala Jenilea
Heath Domina Arroyo Owen Bleach Nai`a Aguirre
Brandon DiPaola Jonathan "Fenix" Saavedra
Chris Shimanoff Andrew Lum Michael Main
Jonathan Cannell Scott Robertson Ryan "Oki"
Okinaka Sean Chool Jonathan Reyn Bronte Amoy
John Huser
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