Women of Will
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Women of Will

Presented by Tina Packer, Ella Loudon, Paul-Lou Lemieux · UNITED STATES

Summerhall · The Library Gallery
18 - 31 Aug
60 min · Age TWELVE
100% available

13 performances tracked

About the show

Jack, an aging actor, walks into a pub. Ava, a bartender auditioning, once again, for drama school, pours him a drink. Jack offers to help Ava with her monologues, and the two wend their way through the Shakespeare canon, clashing and connecting as they do. Based on the ineffable Tina Packer's Women of Will, this production charts the way Shakespeare's writing for women changed across his career. Intimate, epic; what emerges is an homage to some of the Bard's heroines, a love song to connection, as they learn to listen to both the text and each other.

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"Before Sunrise" meets a university literature seminar"Educating Rita" if it focused on the Bard and female empowermentA masterclass in Shakespearean analysis wrapped in a touching two-hander

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