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ONE adult ticket to Southwest Shakespeare Company's 2015-16 Season

September 4-19 Hysteria by Terry Johnson in the Farnsworth Studio Theater
A tour-de-force of language and wit, this fast-paced farce was a smash hit when it premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 1993. Freud and Dali meet for tea at Freud's house in Hampstead one summer's afternoon in 1938. The play combines that meeting with the arrival of the mysterious Jessica, who brings serious charges against Freud. In the last months of his illness, the exhausted Freud soon finds himself up to his neck explaining both his life's work and the female undergarments in his garden.

October 16-31 The Merry Wives of Windsor in the Nesbitt/Elliott Playhouse
Sir John Falstaff, a visitor to the town of Windsor and needing money, sends letters to Mistresses Page and Ford in the hope of wooing them and tapping into their husbands’ fortunes. The women discover his intention and, enlisting Mistress Quickly as their messenger, set a trap. One of the merriest of Shakespeare comedies, and peopled with riotous characters such as Parson Hugh Evans and the insane Doctor Caius, it’s a farce that’s not to be missed.

January 14-30, 2016 Winterfest Repertory in the Virginia Piper Repertory Theater
OTHELLO Set in the sun bleached outpost of Cyprus, this tale boils with fury, honor, and consuming passions. The Moor Othello, a celebrated general but also an outsider, shares a boundless love with Desdemona, a Venetian aristocrat, but their happiness could be undone by the deceitful Iago, Othello’s military aid. This tale of Love and Treachery will feature one of the finest casts ever assembled by Southwest Shakespeare Company.
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS Shakespeare’s farcical onslaught of mistaken identities, fateful romance and family reunions. Not one but two sets of long-separated twins form the springboard to much confusion, slapstick, and surprise as a family that once was lost now is found, in a strange, possibly haunted, and madly wonderful land!

February 26-March 19, 2016 WITTENBERG by David Davalos in the Farnsworth Studio
It is October 1517 in northern Germany and the characters of Hamlet, his mentor John Faustus, and Faustus' colleague and Hamlet's instructor and priest, Martin Luther, all collide in a brilliant theatrical construction by David Davalos."…a crackling good bit of entertainment… Hilarity, thy name is WITTENBERG." —NY Times. "…a sort of quadrangular Shakespeare in Love: It's a philosophy survey course and a non-smirking smartypants comedy all in one." —NY Magazine. "…a delightful romp that's as accessible as it is thought-provoking." —New York Post. "A cocktail of brainy allusions, absurdist plot twists, sly wordplay and disarming anachronisms, fortified with serious ideas.”—Washington Post

March 25-April 9, 2016 TWELFTH NIGHT in the Nesbitt/Elliott Playhouse Theater
A deliciously dark comedy of mistaken identities and misdirected passions. Twelfth Night offers a touchingly human celebration of the delights and agonies of love, pride and celebration. Lovers and misfits, clowns and gentry collide in an entertaining cocktail of comic confusion. The vain and authoritarian Malvolio has commanded that there "shall be no more cakes and ale", but he is taken in when a plot is hatched to fool him into thinking the lady of the house is in love with him. "With hey, ho, the wind and the rain", join us in Illyria for this most romantic of Shakespeare's comedies.

Item Special Note

All shows performed at the award-winning Mesa Arts Center in downtown Mesa, 1 East Center Street, Mesa Arizona 85201. Winner of many AriZoni Awards (Arizona's "Tony" Awards) for Best Play, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Costume Design, Best Fight Choreographer and more, Southwest Shakespeare is Arizona's only professional not-for-profit classical theatre company, now entering its 22nd year of production. It has introduced over 145,000 students to Shakespeare and provides synopses and pre-show director's orientations to help patrons understand Shakespeare. All donations are tax deductible. Learn more at www.swshakespeare.org.