Debate the Bard in ‘The Beard of Avon’
In tackling the question of authorship, San Francisco playwright Amy Freed transforms the stuff of musty literary theory into rollicking comedy.
Freed rounds up the usual suspects and then some, from Shakespeare (played by Dante Belletti) and his wife, Anne Hathaway (played by Caitlin Papp), to nobleman Edward De Vere (Michael Champlin), actor and theater owner Richard Burbage as well as Queen Elizabeth I, to continue the debate on who is the “real” Shakespeare.
Karen Altree Piemme directs the Pear Theatre production, a Drama Desk Award-nominated play.