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Much Ado about Something: Seattle Shakes Announces Season

John Ulman

Seattle Shakespeare Company has just announced the company’s robust plans for the coming 2014-15 season. It includes an expanded five-play indoor season, kicked off by Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. Wooden O, the company’s annual selection of free outdoor shows, will include an all-female cast of Julius Caesar set in contemporary times.

“Many of the projects in this coming year have been in the works for several years,” artistic director George Mount said in a press release. “It was really a matter of timing and getting the right pieces in place.” With the mainstage indoor season, Mount said all the plays will focus around the theme ‘Lead Us Into Temptation.’ “Desires,” he notes, “both playful and sinister, are a factor in each show.”

The Wooden O season, summertimes shows presented for free around the Puget Sound area, will be The Two Gentlemen of Verona directed by David Quicksall and Julius Caesar directed by Vanessa Miller. The Two Gentlemen of Verona will draw its setting from mid-century America. Julius Caesar, with its female cast, will be an enthralling political thriller about the power of Rome.

The mainstage season opens with Beckett’s masterwork, Waiting for Godot. The season will continue with Shakespeare’s sparkling comedy Twelfth Night, followed by Measure for Measure, directed by Desdemona Chiang, Moliere’s Tartuffe and Othello directed by John Langs.

The season particulars:

2014 Wooden O Free Outdoor Season
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
July 10 – Aug. 10, 2014
Performed at park locations throughout King and Snohomish Counties

Julius Caesar
July 10 – Aug. 2, 2014
Performed at park locations throughout King and Snohomish Counties

2014-15 Indoor Season
Waiting for Godot
Sept. 3-21, 2014
Performed at the Falls Theatre at ACT Theatre

Twelfth Night
Oct. 21 – Nov. 16, 2014
Performed at the Center Theatre at Seattle Center

Measure for Measure
Jan. 6 – Feb. 1, 2015
Performed at the Center Theatre at Seattle Center

Tartuffe
March 17 – April 12, 2015
Performed at the Center Theatre at Seattle Center

Othello
April 22-May 10, 2015
Performed at the Center Theatre at Seattle Center