Cardenio at City Garage Theatre

Come and join us in the sunny hills of Italy for a romantic adventure as three mismatched couples struggle to sort themselves out-even a newly married bride and groom! Noted Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt and Obie Award-winning playwright Charles L. Mee have re-made a "lost" comedy of Shakespeare's into a contemporary delight. Anselmo, uncertain of his young bride Camila's love persuades his best man to put her to the test. Her furious reaction, when she finds out, manages to send all three couples into confusion as their own conflicts come out in the open-with results that at first seem disastrous, but of course, end happily. Working from such texts as exist for this "holy grail" of Shakespeare lovers, Greenblatt and Mee have crafted a joyful play with all the hallmarks of Shakespeare's great comedies: playful, sensual, sexy, filled with exuberant language, an intoxicating affirmation of the power of love-even if it begins in confusion.