Greenstage

When a theater troop is focused on working with Shakespeare’s entire canon, it inevitably must dust off such oddities as the little known The Two Noble Kinsmen. Scholars credit the writing of this piece to the team of John Fletcher and Shakespeare and file the work under tragicomedy. The play, based on Chaucer’s The Knight’s Tale, involves two Theban cousins falling in love with the same Athenian woman. It is a positive commentary on Seattle and the GreenStage Shakespeare in the Park program that the presentation drew such a good crowd on a sun baked afternoon in Volunteer Park. All were rewarded with a solid, entertaining production that made the most out of its somewhat clunky script.

Only a handful of professional groups in the US have accomplished what GreenStage has now done with its Shakespeare in the Park production of Othello. It has produced Shakespeare’s complete canon. In its 26th year, the troop finally tackles one of the Bard’s most harrowing tragedies.