Tina Packer, founder of Shakespeare & Company in Lennox, Mass., is bringing an overview version of “Women of Will” to Colorado Springs in November, and the entire five-part opus to Boulder next summer. (All photos are courtesy of Photo by Kevin Sprague, Provided by Shakespeare & Company)
The Colorado Shakespeare Festival is going back to producing five plays in 2012 — nine if you count “Women of Will,” an extraordinary, five-part tour of Shakespeare’s female characters that’s written and performed by Tina Packer, the founder of Shakespeare & Company in Lennox, Mass.
While she’s at it, she’ll direct her scene partner, Nigel Gore, in “Richard III,” spicing up a varied 55th season that also includes Ken Ludwig’s “Treasure Island”; perhaps the world’s most popular modern farce, “Noises Off“; and, in a festival first, a co-production of “Twelfth Night” that will play 32 performances at the Arvada Center before it opens Colorado Shakes’ summer season in Boulder.
But the big news for 2012 is “Women of Will,” which Packer so far has performed in full in only two cities. She will present the two-hour “overview” version at Colorado Springs TheatreWorks nightly from Nov. 9 to 13 (719-255-3232).
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