Annapolis Shakespeare Company's Closing Weekend of the Helen Hayes Awards Recommended Production, A TALE OF TWO CITIES, is this weekend, July 31 - August 2. The show received a standing ovation on opening night BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
This exhilarating adaptation of the classic Charles Dickens novel tells an epic story of vengeance and sacrifice poetically described in the famous first lines as "the best of times and the worst of times." When the French emigrant Charles Darnay returns to his native Paris to help a friend, his aristocratic past is cause for the new regime to imprison him in the infamous Bastille where he is sentenced to death by guillotine. With time running out, Darnay's friends and family desperately try to free him.
A TALE OF TWO CITIES by Charles Dickens, adapted by Laura Eason, is directed by Sally Boyett and runs through August 2nd with performances on Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., and Sundays, at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.Tickets are $30-35 with discounts for Seniors and Students. Tickets are available online at AnnapolisShakespeare.org.
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Photo Credit: Joshua McKerrow; *Member of Actor's Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
James Carpenter, Joel Ottenheimer, Amy Pastoor, Richard Pilcher*, and Patrick Truhler
Amy Pastoor as Madame Defarge
Laura Rocklyn, Richard Pilcher*, Joel Ottenheimer, and Amy Pastoor
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