Berkshire on Stage

by Barbara Waldinger How is it possible for a local theatre, performing in a school with a cast of seventeen, including a small group of experienced actors working alongside a number of young students, to mount a credible, fully-staged and costumed production of Shakespeare’s Richard II, a play written entirely…

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, December 2007 I confess that I have never seen or read any version of Cyrano de Bergerac before entering the Copake Grange on December 1, although that is hardly necessary since the basic plot of Edmond Rostand’s 1897 play has entered the American vernacular. Everything from cartoons…