The Willard Suitcases
MARQUEE REPERTORY 2019
We all have baggage — what's yours? Contains adult content.
2019 Fall Season
WELCOME TO autumn at the american shakespeare center
The 2019 Fall Repertory Season will continue ASC’s Roman Trio and add one exciting new show to the repertory. This season continues to trace the arcs of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar with Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar; his own sequel, Antony and Cleopatra; and George Bernard Shaw’s “prequel,”Caesar and Cleopatra.
And, new to the season, is Julianne Wick Davis’ world-premiere musical The Willard Suitcases – a song cycle based on real suitcases found abandoned in Willard Asylum. We all have baggage – what’s yours?
“It’s vital to me that ASC/Blackfriars continue to be a laboratory for exploration of the human condition, and to do that effectively ASC as company needs to continue to stretch ourselves in new directions, bringing the talent, skills, and intelligence we have cultivated on the work of Shakespeare, talent amply displayed in our current Roman Rep and beautifully challenged in our free-wheeling approach to Shaw, to new voices and stories yet to be told.”
– Ethan McSweeny, Artistic Director
See below to read about each play, view performance calendars, and purchase tickets.
Caesar and Cleopatra
MARQUEE REPERTORY 2019
A wily old general mentors a fiery young queen in the finer points of state-craft.
Antony and Cleopatra
MARQUEE REPERTORY 2019
Two great leaders entangle themselves and their nations in one great big romantic mess. Contains some adult content.
Julius Caesar
MARQUEE REPERTORY 2019
A cautionary tale about the unintended consequences of political assassination.