ROYALS REDUX
ATC’s 2022 season examines power structures, power moves, and powerful people.
All performances are offered for FREE (donations accepted at intermission), or reserve a chair or blanket in advance. Premium boxes of 2 reserved zero-gravity chairs are $50, and basic boxes with a reserved ATC logo blanket (that you can keep after the show!) are $25.
HAMLET, 1603
BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Directed by Sarah Neville
May 26 – June 19, 2022
Thursdays through Sundays @ 8pm
Schiller Park (German Village), Amphitheatre Stage
A grieving son; a father’s ghost; a mother’s untimely remarriage: Shakespeare’s tragedy of Hamlet has long been among his best-known and most-celebrated plays. But before the familiar tale of delayed revenge, long scenes, and introspective speeches came Shakespeare’s earlier, younger, and much faster version. A (old) new take on the play audiences think they know, Hamlet, 1603 offers a rare opportunity to experience the exciting first draft of Shakespeare’s most famous work.
A TALE OF TWO CITIES
BY CHARLES DICKENS
Adapted for the stage by Terence Rattigan and John Gielgud
Directed by David J. Glover
June 23 – July 17, 2022
Thursdays through Sundays @ 8pm
Schiller Park (German Village), Amphitheatre Stage
One of the darkest and most romantic of Dickens’ novels, A Tale of Two Cities is set in the late 18th century against the background of the French Revolution. In a time when governments all over the world are facing down political unrest and fierce protests, this revolutionary story has never been more relevant. The complex plot involves Sydney Carton sacrificing his own life on behalf of his friends Charles Darnay and Lucie Manette. While political events drive the story, lambasting aristocratic tyranny and revolutionary excess—the latter memorably caricatured in Madame Defarge who knits beside the guillotine, this adaptation reflects that ambition by having thirty characters played by just eight actors.
QUEEN MARGARET
BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Adapted by Jeanie O’Hare
Directed by Philip J. Hickman
July 21 – August 14, 2022
Thursdays through Sundays @ 8pm
Schiller Park (German Village), Amphitheatre Stage
Queen Margaret is a new adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Henry VI plays, focusing on the life and story of Queen Margaret of Anjou, one of history’s most influential women. The play is a simmering blend of romance, betrayal, and rebellion told with wit and power. The story unfolds as Margaret grows from a young queen bound by the constraints of tradition to the ruling force in the War of the Roses, protecting her son in a chaotic time of political strife and providing a future for her nation.
AUGUST WILSON’S KING HEDLEY II
A co-production with PAST Productions Columbus
Directed by Patricia Wallace-Winbush
August 18 – September 4, 2022
Thursdays through Sundays @ 8pm
Schiller Park (German Village), Amphitheatre Stage
King Hedley II is set in 1985 and tells the story of an ex-con in post-Reagan Pittsburgh trying to rebuild his life. The play touches on economic disparity, the violence of the times, and how secrets and generational curses can tear a family apart.