Against the backdrop of a highly stylized, playfully conceived iteration of the 1950s, & the Misses revisits Shakespeare’s most distinctly middle-class play, along with its concurrent themes of power, privilege, and identity. Through the lens of Anne, a protagonist who delivers fewer than 100 lines in The Merry Wives of Windsor, a story unfolds in which she ascends from subject to object, incarnating a charming yet grounded coming-of-age narrative through motifs as relevant today as they were in Elizabethan England. (FINALIST FOR THE SHAKESPEARE’S NEW CONTEMPORARIES PROGRAM AT AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE CENTER)
Script available upon request.