Academic papers and classes are structured around this very question. Over the centuries, skeptical scholars have attempted to explain how an uneducated playwright with few royal connections could have concocted plays taking place all across Europe and in varying time periods. It has been suggested that perhaps Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe, Edward de Vere the Earl of Oxford, or even Queen Elizabeth I, were either collectively or singularly responsible for the works of “William Shakespeare.”
Amy Freed takes on this conspiracy with poetry and comedy in The Beard of Avon, which opens at Live Arts next Friday, May 16th. It is directed by Betsy Rudelich Tucker, and runs from May 16 through June 7.
If you’re in the mood for a classic musical, don’t forget to check out the Play On! production of Guys and Dolls that opened May 8. It runs through May 24.
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