The English Channel
Description
The venerable Robert Brustein offers his take on Shakespearean authorship in this florid but modest historical diversion, set in 1593. His Bard, played with an easy smile by Stafford Clark-Price, is a magpie collector of other people’s ideas; the play situates him in one corner of a romantic and political quadrangle with the sly libertine Christopher Marlowe (the exceptional Sean Dugan), as well as the pretty Earl of Southampton (Brian Robert Burns) and the defiant Emilia Lanier (Lori Gardner). Daniela Varon’s handsome staging keeps you entertained as Brustein lays out groundwork, not always flattering, for the eventual triumph of the Will.—Adam Feldman
When
Oct 5 2008 2pm