“…’Twere all one/That I should love a bright
particular star/And think to wed it, he is so above me…”

Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well has been deemed a “problem play” for several reasons.  There are no records of it having been performed in Shakespeare’s lifetime. The 1623 First Folio version was based on an uncorrected manuscript draft.  Most importantly, the story and its characters can prove to be downright puzzling. Helena, the gifted daughter of a court physician, loves Bertram, a proud young man of noble birth. But is worthy of her devotion?  In an adventure that takes us from France to the Florentine wars of Italy and back again, we can ask ourselves what lengths we would go to for the object of our desires.  Associate Artistic Director Barbara Zahora directs.