Event Details: Santa Fe ShakeScenes: The Very Ecstasy of Love

Here’s a whole new way to experience Shakespeare! Each 75-minute program is organized around an enduring theme, with scenes and music from some of the world’s most popular plays. Lively and informative, these presentations will enhance your enjoyment of a writer who has been described as our most reliable guide to the mileposts of life. Each performance will be followed by an optional half-hour conversation with members of the cast.
September 9: A FOOL TO MAKE ME MERRY - Comic highlights from plays such as A Midsummer
Night’s Dream, As You Like It, Henry IV, Part 1, King Lear, and Macbeth, and The Tempest.
September 16: THE VERY ECSTASY OF LOVE - Witty exchanges from Much Ado About Nothing,
The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night, and other works.
September 23: NOT WISELY BUT TOO WELL - An exploration of love and its perils, as dramatized
in tragedies such as Antony and Cleopatra, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, and Romeo and Juliet.
September 30: THE DEPTHS AND SHOALS OF HONOR - Thought-provoking dialogues about honor in Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, Henry VIII, Richard II, Coriolanus, and The Tempest.

Performed by an ensemble of Santa Fe’s leading Shakespearean artists:
Nicholas Ballas, Acushla Bastible, Charles Gamble, Kristie Karsen,
Suzanne Lederer, Jonathan Richards, Victor Talmadge
Adapted and Directed by Emmy and Peabody Award winner Robert Benedetti