Feb 7, 2017
Ashlie Atkinson, center, in “Imogen Says Nothing.” Credit: Joan Marcus
The title character, played with fortitude and powerful presence by Ashlie Atkinson (“Fat Pig”), is a solidly built, lumbering woman who arrives in Elizabethan London on an odd mission. It seems the town she hails from has been arbitrarily renamed Quaere by a cartographer, confusing residents who had always referred to it as North Burcombe.
Through some confusion she finds herself in conversation with two of Shakespeare’s actors, the dismissive John Heminges (Christopher Ryan Grant) and the more sympathetic Henry Condell (Hubert Point-Du Jour). They offer little help, but somehow Imogen finds herself falling in with the company.
