This production of Cymbeline was held at St. Paul’s School in Concord, NH. It is hard to believe that a group of students can prepare a performance of Shakespeare in a little over 2 weeks, but they did indeed do it.
The synopsis helped, as well as prior viewing of the recent movie version. It was interesting that one of the best performances was Hadley Pope as Imogen, in her debut performance. She played alongside a very good Poshumus by Sam Kingston. His bio indicates prior theater experience, and certainly the rapidity but perfect clarity of his lines bore that out. Some strong supporting roles were Cymbeline by Nancy Gregory and Helena Whitcomb as Lucius, in her debut as well.
There were some unintended humorous moments, with the beheading of Cloten, and also some intended ones with the blustering of Jupiter.
They did a good job with a challenging play.