The Shakespeare Theatre’s Artistic Director Michael Kahn directs a Washington, D.C. premiere of this wicked and elaborate farced called by the poet John Dryden the “most perfectly plotted of all comedies.” Audiences will remember our production of Jonson’s Volpone, winner of two Helen Hayes Awards. The Silent Woman is the story of aptly-named Morose, an old bachelor with a severe aversion to noise, who marries a “silent woman” to deny his nephew a substantial inheritance. When the quiet lady turns out to be anything but, the stage is set for gender-bending and boisterous antics. With biting wit and sharp satire, Jonson considers what it means to be a man, to be a woman, indeed to be human, but without voice. A recent audience favorite as part of the Shakespeare Theatre’s ReDiscovery series, this play roars with delicious surprise.
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View a program from the production.
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Scott Ferrara*
Ned Clarimont
Wyatt Fenner
A Boy
Daniel Breaker*
Truewit
Bruce Turk*
Sir Dauphine Eugenie
Floyd King*
Sir Amorous La Foole
Ted van Griethuysen*
Morose
Hugh Nees*
Mute, A Parson
John Livingstone Rolle*
Cutbeard
Ricki Robichaux*
Epicoene
Gregg Almquist*
Sir John Daw
David Sabin*
Tom Otter
Nancy Robinette*
Mistress Otter
Naomi Jacobson*
Madame Haughty
Nikki E. Walker*
Madame Centaur
Amanda Whiting
Mistress Dol Mavis
Scott Bellot, Allan Care, Dino Coppa, Celia Madeoy, Matthew Pendergast, Joe Tapper, Elliot C. Villar, Michael C. Wilson
Ensemble
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Michael Kahn
Director
Andrew Jackness
Set Designer
Murell Horton
Costume Designer
Christopher Akerlind
Lighting Designer
Catherine MacDonald
Composer
Martin Desjardins
Sound Designer
Ralph Zito
Voice and Text Coach
Mark Schneider
Assistant Director
Lorraine Ressegger
Fight Consultant
Brian Scott
Stage Manager
Brandon Prendergast
Assistant Stage Manager
Stuart Howard, Amy Schecter, Howard Meltzer, C.S.A.
Casting
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