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Seven Ages of Woman

  • Santa Fe Playhouse 142 East De Vargas Street Santa Fe, NM, 87501 United States (map)
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Santa Fe Classic Theater presents

Seven Ages of Woman: A Banquet of Shakespeare’s Women

For its second offering of the 2019 season (following Shakespeare in the Garden’s Romeo and Juliet), Santa Fe Classic Theater (SFCT) has prepared a special presentation of scenes and monologues from the great female characters created by Shakespeare.

In an age when other playwrights wrote about women with contempt or chauvinist humor, Shakespeare’s heroines have been acknowledged as the greatest female acting roles ever written. In the beloved comedy As You Like It (which SFCT will present at the Botanical Garden in 2020), the cynic Jacques has one of Shakespeare’s most famous speeches, beginning “All the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players.” He then goes on to list the seven ages all men live through — from infant to mere oblivion, “Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.”

Why Seven Ages of Woman? Santa Fe has so many accomplished actresses that SFCT feels compelled to share this abundance of talent and give them the opportunity to explore Shakespeare’s more than seven ages of women — from infant to girl, child to maiden, wife, mother, crone, from Mistress Quickly, the tavern mistress, to Queen Cleopatra.

Performances:
Sunday • November 17 • 7 p.m. (Benefit performance for Theatre Santa Fe)
Monday • November 18 • 7 p.m.
Tuesday • November 19 • 7 p.m.
Wednesday • November 20 • 7 p.m.

Tickets:
$25 General Admission
$10 Students under 18
Reservations: (646) 413-3218
Click here to purchase advanced tickets through Brown Paper Ticket

About Santa Fe Classic Theater
Santa Fe Classic Theater is a non-profit, tax-exempt theater company whose purpose is to present and promote the works of classic playwrights, from Sophocles to Shakespeare to Shaw, for multicultural audiences in New Mexico. Santa Fe Classic Theater is a professional company committed to the highest standards of excellence in theater.

Website:
santafeclassictheater.org

Earlier Event: November 17
Seven Ages of Woman
Later Event: November 19
Seven Ages of Woman