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Summer Shakespeare: Twelfth Night

Runs: 07/29/10 — 08/14/10
Opening Night: 07/30/10

Twelfth Night, or What You Will, by William Shakespeare was written in 1601 as a celebration of the end of the Christmas Season and is one of the Bard's best loved and best known comedies! After a tragic shipwreck, Viola finds herself washed ashore on the beach of Illyria having lost her twin brother Sebastian in the storm. Masquerading as a young boy, Viola enters the service of the Duke. Duke Orsino is in love with the lady Olivia and the Duke charges the disguised...

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The Glass Menagerie

Runs: 09/22/10 — 10/10/10
Opening Night: 09/24/10

Tennessee Williams rewrote his short story "Portrait of a Girl in Glass" into the classic, autobiographical, The Glass Menagerie, which won the prestigious New York Drama Critics Circle Award in 1945. The Wingfield family: Mother Amanda, daughter Laura, and son Tom (Tennessee Williams’ given name), struggle with the difference between dreams and reality, broken promises, failure and reconciliation. Tom is our guide through the play:

Yes, I have tricks in my pocket; I have...

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The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge

Runs: 12/08/10 — 12/23/10
Opening Night: 12/10/10

It’s the Trial of the Century! A year after his miraculous transformation, Ebenezer Scrooge is back to his old ways and is suing Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future for breaking and entering, kidnapping, slander, pain and suffering, attempted murder and the intentional infliction of emotionaldistress. The ghosts employ Solomon Rothschild, England's most charismatic, savvy, and clever barrister. Scrooge, that old penny pincher, represents himself. B&B...

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Macbeth

Runs: 03/09/11 — 03/27/11
Opening Night: 03/11/11

If Macbeth did it all for the glory of his lineage…where are the children? Bag&Baggage always does something original with Shakespeare, giving rise to the company’s tagline, “See a classic again for the first time.” For this new world-premier adaptation of The Scottish Play, artistic director Scott Palmer delves into the same source materials that the Bard used to craft his story, and emerges with a Macbeth that remains true and fatally fascinating, with a bloody new twist.

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The Mystery of Irma Vep

Runs: 05/11/11 — 05/29/11
Opening Night: 05/13/11
Tickets: Adult: $21-23, Stu/Sen: $16-18, Previews: $12 all seats; $1.50 per ticket fee on all tickets

In The Mystery of Irma Vep, playwright Charles Ludlam managed to parody at least a dozen literary and cinematic paragons, including Joyce, Wilde, Poe and Ibsen (the play steals its opening lines directly from Ghosts), classic horror movies, Gaslight, Wuthering Heights, Gothic novels and the movie Rebecca, which provides the basic plot points. Two intrepid actors portray eight characters, changing identities at lightning...

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