In todayās Wall Street Journal I review a webcast of Shakespeare Festival St. Louisā āTourCoā production of Cymbeline. Hereās an excerpt. * * * Earlier this season, Shakespearā¦
Earlier this season, Shakespeare Festival St. Louis put together a small-scale 90-minute touring production of āCymbelineā adapted and directed by Tom Ridgely, the companyās producing artistic director, that was intended for performance in schools and communities where Shakespeareās plays are not regularly seen.Ā
Acted by six young women in casual modern dress who collectively enact more than two dozen roles on an all-but-bare stage, the production gets under way with a āliving study guideā that walks viewers of all ages through the proliferating complexities of āCymbelineā in an uncondescending way.
Itās the sort of Shakespeare staging that rarely gets seen, much less reviewed, by big-city critics, but because of the coronavirus pandemic, SFSTL, unable to take its āCymbelineā on the road, instead taped it with a single video camera in front of a tiny audience of staffers and crew and has made the results available for free on the companyās Facebook pageā¦
