Just in time for April Fool’s Day, William Shakespeare’s wife shows us the foolishness of humankind in a warm, witty and family-friendly tour of her husband’s work in a one-woman performance at Guilford Art Center on Sunday, March 30. The show, Shakespeare’s Fools, starts at 4 p.m. Tickets are $10, with kids under 12 free.
In this interactive show presented by GreenStage Guilford Live Arts, Rebecca Salomonsson plays Anne Hathaway and leads us through scenes from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It and Romeo and Juliet—inviting audience members to take on the roles of other characters. Written and performed by Salomonsson, Shakespeare’s Fools is a comic send-up that familiarizes us with the storylines and characters from some of the bard’s greatest and most beloved plays.
Salomonsson is a playwright, poet and middle-school teacher who’s been acting for 28 years, teaching for 20 and writing for most of her life. While earning a BA in Theatre Arts from the University of Massachusetts, she studied at the National Shakespeare Conservatory in New York. She participated in “Shakespeare in Our Schools,” a workshop led by Shakespeare & Company of Lenox, Mass.; studied with Janet Suzman of the Royal Shakespeare Company; and earned a Master’s in Genre Fiction from Western Colorado University. She’s directed multiple Shakespeare productions for the professional theatre and youth programs. A Guilford resident, Salomonsson currently, writes, performs and teaches eighth-grade English in Connecticut.
Tickets to Shakespeare’s Fools are available online and will be for sale at the door on the day of the show on a space-available basis. For more information, contact GreenStage at office@greenstageguilford.org or 203-654-9482.