Cymbeline presented by Shakespeare Theatre Company at Michael R. Klein Theatre

Cymbeline

Michael R. Klein Theatre
450 7th Street NW Washington

Cymbeline tells the story of the love between Princess Imogen and the commoner Posthumus. When her father, King Cymbeline, finds out about their secret marriage, he banishes Posthumus. They must endure long journeys, deceitful enemies, mistaken identity and even magic potions. Will Imogen ever be reunited with her husband, or will the turmoil of war with Rome and a feuding family keep them apart?

Presented by Shakespeare Theatre Company

Thru - Mar 6, 2011

Show Type: Drama

Running Time: 2hrs; 30 mins with 1 intermission

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Cymbeline Reviews

Average Rating based on 5 reviews

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DCist - Recommended

"...Even putting the tropes aside, Cymbeline's plot in general feels all over the place, and that may be one reason that it's not one of the most widely performed works in the Shakespeare canon. But director Rebecca Bayla Taichman takes the show's absurdity and runs with it -- and with the help of some artistic touches and some unconventional character interpretations, produces a show that transcends its source material."

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- Missy Frederick

Examiner - Not Recommended

"...There’s no good way to say this: the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Cymbeline is a mess. Miscast, shockingly acted in the negative and poorly conceived and directed, this whole production is completely unworthy of the Company."

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- Joan Fuchsman

Talkin Broadway - Recommended

"...Cymbeline will never be one of William Shakespeare's more coherent plays—there's a reason why it's rarely performed—but director Rebecca Bayla Taichman has created a production of it for Washington's Shakespeare Theatre Company that's as beautifully visual and easy to follow as may be possible."

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- Susan Berlin

Washington City Paper - Recommended

"...The good news is that director Rebecca Bayla Taichman has laid out the play’s complications about as clearly as anyone could hope for; it’s pretty clean storytelling, what she’s put onstage. (Pretty pretty storytelling, too, with that giant tree painted in shadows and light across the back of the stage, with the Britons in their golds and the Romans in their imposing leathers, with Gretchen Hall’s winning Imogen radiant in purest white amid it all.) A storyteller and a little girl, paging through a giant book that produces the occasional pop-up tree— plus other, more disturbing surprises—frame the story helpfully and provide the occasional narrative shortcut, and in a script that features plenty of direct audience address (even in Taichman’s pared-back edit), the device seems less twee than it might."

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- Trey Graham

DCTheatreScene - Somewhat Recommended

Cymbeline‘s disparate themes and credulity-stretching plot have always posed serious challenges to any director willing to take it on. Assigned the daunting task of bringing Cymbeline to life for a 21st century audience, Director Rebecca Bayla Taichman largely succeeds. Her modest re-engineering of the original does make its disparate elements more coherent.

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- Terry Ponick

Cymbeline presented by Shakespeare Theatre Company at Michael R. Klein Theatre

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Cymbeline Reviews

DCist - Recommended

Examiner - Not Recommended

Talkin Broadway - Recommended

Washington City Paper - Recommended

DCTheatreScene - Somewhat Recommended

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