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Biron

Biron doubts his companions can follow through

Fairy

A fairy decorates for Titania

HoSteSS

Mistress Quickly describes Falstaff’s death

Orsino

Orsino lectures Viola (disguised as Cesario) in his (her) choice of mates

Katharina

Katharina doesn’t understand Petruchio

Caesar, Antony

Caesar discusses his suspicions with Anthony

Orsino

Orsino can’t get enough of the music of love

Parolles, Lord, Soldiers

Parolles is threatened by enemies pretending to be foreigners

Ulysses

Ulysses discusses the downside of power

Benedick, Beatrice

Benedick and Beatrice discover love

Fluellen

Fluellen has some concerns about the army’s lack of discipline

Helena

Helena wishes she could figure out men

Holfernes, Sir Nathaniel, Costard

Holfernes holds up the banner of linguistic correctness; Costard is not so sure

Titania

Titania has had it with Oberon

Macduff, Porter

The Porter discourses to Macduff

Cleopatra, Iras

Cleopatra knows what defeat will bring

Bottom

Bottom awakes

Lady Percy, Hotspur

Lady Percy fears for Hotspur

Clown

The Clown sings a folk-song to end the play

Biron

Biron doubts his companions can follow through

Holfernes, Sir Nathaniel, Costard

Holfernes holds up the banner of linguistic correctness; Costard is not so sure

Fairy

A fairy decorates for Titania

Orsino

Orsino can’t get enough of the music of love

Helena

Helena wishes she could figure out men

Macduff, Porter

The Porter discourses to Macduff

Katharina

Katharina doesn’t understand Petruchio

Viola

Viola wonders at a ring from Olivia

Benedick, Beatrice

Benedick and Beatrice discover love

O for/ a Muse/ of fire,/ that would/ ascend/The bright/est heav/en of/ inven/tion,/A king/dom for/ a stage,/ princes/ to act/And mon/archs to/ behold/ the swel/ling scene!/Then should/ the war/like Har/ry, like/ himself,/Assume/ the port/ of Mars;/ and at /his heels,/Leash'd in/ like hounds,/ should fam/ine, sword/ and fire/Crouch for/ employment./ But par/don, gen/tles all,/The flat/ unrais/ed spir/its that/ have dared/On this/ unworth/y scaf/fold to/ bring forth/So great/ an ob/ject: can/ this cock/pit hold/The vas/ty fields/ of France?/ or may/ we cram/Within/ this wood/en O/ the ver/y casques/That did/ affright/ the air/ at A/gincourt?/

Shakespeare Dallas Presents

What is Human?Written and Directed by John S. Davies

EnsembleJohn S. Davies

Catherine DuBordAnthony L. RamirezJoanna Schellenberg

Beau Trujillo

Stage Manager: Cindy Ernstwww.shakespearedallas.org

More from Shakespeare Dallas…

Check out our Spring Shakespeare Unplugged Series!• She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith April at the Bath House Cultural Center• Venus and Adonis April at the Green Zone•BOY by Erik Ehn April & May at the Green Zone

Join us at the park for laughs and romance!Cymbeline June & July at Samuell-Grand AmphitheatreThe Comedy of Errors June & July at Samuell-Grand AmphitheatreThe Two Gentlemen of Verona September & October

at Samuell-Grand Amphitheatre & Addison Circle Park