Shakespeare plays
2010 Performance Season

2010 Performance Season

The Amorous Quarrel

By Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
Directed by Jenna Ware

Rose Footprint Theatre & Bankside
June 23 - August 28
5:30 pm



"I thought you a man of sense, and till this moment had a good opinion of your wit, but by what I see I was very much deceived."

Absurd misunderstandings? Check. A woman disguised as a man? You got it. Servants who appear to be much more in control of things than their masters? Of course.

This wild, knock-about comedy, by one of the world's greatest-ever satirical playwrights, headlines our Bankside Festival at the outdoor Rose Footprint Theatre this summer. Moliere wrote this play early in his career, on the cusp between the dozen years he spent touring the countryside with unbridled farces and the wicked social satires with which he'd soon set Paris astir. The Amorous Quarrel contains a mix of both influences, with a pair of sometimes-silly gentleman pining hopelessly for the same Lady, while her sister—long disguised as a man—searches for a way to claim one of them as her own.

FREE for kids 18 and under, $10 for adults