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Falstaff in Love - Preview

  • Whidbey Island Center for the Arts PO Box 52 | 565 Camano Avenue Langley, WA 98260 (map)

Falstaff in Love
by Scott Kaiser

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts is excited to announce the upcoming opening of Falstaff in Love, a fresh, pseudo-Shakespearean comedy by Scott Kaiser and directed by Executive Artistic Director Deana Duncan. The show will run from December 7-December 23 and includes an amazing cast of actors from Whidbey Island, Port Townsend, California, and Canada. Through strong fight choreography, live music, and audience interaction, Shakespeare’s beloved character Sir John Falstaff comes to life.

"You don’t want to miss this," says Duncan. "We’ve never produced anything like Falstaff in Love. It’s not a Shakespeare play, but because Scott Kaiser is such a genius, the play feels like one of Shakespeare’s strongest comedies."

CAST:

Jeff Natter, Host, Guard
James Hinkley, Corporal Bardolf, Gardener
David Mayer, Duke of Aumerle, King Henry the Fourth
Andrew Yabroff, Jack Falstaff
Jameson Cook, Boy
Rosaletta Curry, Nell
Sommer Harris, Queen Mary
Shelley Hartle, Lady Katherine
Aleah Stacey, Faith, The Earl of Kent
Tom Harris, The Earl of Salisbury, Crew

Preview: Dec 7 | 7:30 PM
Friday, December 8 | 7:30 PM
Saturday, December 9 | 7:30 PM
Sunday, December 10 | 2:00 PM
Thursday, December 14 | 7:30 PM
Friday, December 15 | 7:30 PM
Saturday, December 16 | 7:30 PM
Sunday, December 17 | 2:00 PM
Wednesday, December 20 | 7:30 PM
Friday, December 22 | 7:30 PM
Saturday, December 23 | 7:30 PM

Evening tickets available:
WICA Star: $45
Standard: $30
by request to box office: $20

Matinee tickets available:
WICA Star: $35
Standard: $25
by request to box office: $20

Thursday and Wednesday shows:
Pay What You Will is optional at the door

"I haven’t had this much fun in a very long time," says Duncan. "To be in the rehearsal hall with these amazing actors and working with a strong design team, I’m reminded how important live theatre is. This art form is rare in that it’s not perfect—perfectly imperfect actually. Theatre allows space for our humanness and then shares that with an audience, creating a once-in-a-lifetime “moment” every night."

Be sure to buy your tickets today, they will go fast!

Earlier Event: November 18
Walt Wagner Trio
Later Event: December 8
Falstaff in Love | Theatre Series Opening Night

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts would like to begin by acknowledging that we gather on the ancestral homelands, originally known as Tscha-kole-chy (SHA-KOL-CHI) in Lushootseed (LU-SHOOT-SEED), of the Coastal Salish Peoples, on the lands of the lower Skagit, Tulalip (tuh·lay·luhp), Swinomish (SWIN-ə-mish), Snohomish (snō-hō-mish), Stillaguamish (still-uh-GWAH-mish), and Suquamish (soo-kwah-mish), who have lived in the Salish Sea basin since time immemorial and have hunted, fished, gathered, and taken care of these lands.

We respect their sovereignty, their right to self-determination, and we honor their sacred spiritual connection with the land and water.

Please join us in expressing our deepest respect and gratitude to the indigenous people of this territory and for their enduring care and protection of the land in which we currently occupy and share through the Treaty of Point Elliott signed by 82 tribes in Múckl-te-óh (Mukilteo) on January 22, 1855.