"…boisterous and inventive...[Hall] knows how to spin classic physical comedy into freshness."—THE NEW YORK TIMES

"You want art? I'll give you art: Propeller, Edward Hall's all-male Shakespeare troupe, is back in Brooklyn for the third season in a row."—THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

"Bona fide Bard lovers would do themselves a great disservice if they were to miss either of these productions."—THEATERMANIA.COM

"The tragic depths plumbed by Hall explode the myth that either of Shakespeare’s works deserves the neat moniker 'comedy.'"—NEWSDAY

• BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
• WATERMILL THEATRE (UK) AND OLD VIC PRODUCTIONS BY PROPELLER
• DIRECTED BY EDWARD HALL

MAR 17—APR 1
(SEE BELOW FOR INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE DATES)
BAM HARVEY THEATER
TICKETS: $25, 40, 55, 65

Following his recent BAM favorites, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Winter's Tale, Edward Hall—and his all-male troupe Propeller—brings his highly physical, unabashedly playful style to the Harvey Theater for a three-week repertory engagement of Twelfth Night and The Taming of the Shrew, comedies that exult in the often-bewildering convolutions of romantic love.

Both plays explore how misplaced love can reveal true feelings. Twelfth Night transports us to the delightfully surreal island of Illyria, a place where time and gender are illusory and truth is revealed through deception. We're on equally fantastic footing in The Taming of the Shrew, a provocative, hilarious, yet devastatingly cruel treatise on the complexities of marriage, rife with cross-dressing and shifting identities. Things are certainly not what they seem. Who better to sort it all out, and mix it up delightfully again, than Edward Hall, a director who understands, and indeed celebrates, comedy's inherent splendor.

Approximate running time of The Taming of the Shrew is 2 hours 30 minutes, including a 20 minute intermission.

Approximate running time of Twelfth Night is 2 hours 42 minutes, including a 20 minute intermission.

• DESIGN BY MICHAEL PAVELKA
• LIGHTING DESIGN BY BEN ORMEROD AND MARK HOWLAND

The Taming of the Shrew was presented as part of the RSC Complete Works Festival 2006.