Cymbeline
Hudson Shakespeare
Company
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Jon Ciccarelli
Fight Choreography by Katherine Harte
For the final play of the 2004 Shakespeare Festival, HSC turns to one of the Bard's lesser known shows but a twisted take on the standard fairy tale.With elements that would feel right at home in an adventure romp like the, The Princess Bride, "Cymbeline" weaves a tale of the beautiful princess Imogen and her new husband, Posthumus, parted by circumstances invoked by her wicked step mother and her distant father, the King Cymbeline.  Imogen is plagued by a wicked, but idiotic step brother who wants to marry her, the memory of two kidnapped brothers (in our production sisters) who reappear unexpectedly, people who want to kill her and buffoons who question her chastity.  Disguises, misidentifications, convenient plot twists and comedy abound is this ode to the fairy tale world.  With this play, Shakespeare continued a new type of drama that he had first experimented with in the play Pericles, the Romance.  Though, not a term used in his own time, the Romance came to embody a group of works by Shakespeare and his contemporaries that strove to mesh both comic and tragic elements in their stories, usually with a supernatural twist thrown in for good measure. 

































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Performance Dates
Monday, August 2, 7:00 PM, Shipyard Park Hoboken, NJ
Tuesday, August 3, 7:30 PM, Kenilworth Borough Hall, Kenilworth, NJ
Wednesday, August 4, 7:30 PM, Staib Park, Hackensack, NJ
Thursday, August 5, 7:00 PM, Hamilton Park, Jersey City, NJ
Saturday, August 7, 5:00 PM,  Long Pond Iron Works Park, 
West Milford, NJ
Monday, August 9, 7:00 PM, Pier A Park, Hoboken, NJ
Tuesday, August 10, 7:30 PM, Meadowland Park, South Orange, NJ
Wednesday, August 11, 7:00 PM, Hackensack Cultural Arts Center, Hackensack, NJ
Thursday, August 12, 8:00 PM, Ellsworth Park, Union City, NJ
Saturday, August 14 1:00 PM, Stratford Library Amphitheater,
Stratford, CT
Monday, August 16 7:00 PM, Sinatra Park, Hoboken, NJ
Thursday, August 19 7:00 PM, Van Vorst Park, Jersey City, NJ
Monday, August 23 7:30 PM, Secaucus Amphitheater, Secaucus, NJ


























Cast
Tim Baird   King Cymbeline
Tammy Dalton-Brown    Queen/Roman Captain
    /Soothsayer
Laura Malone    Imogen
Cedric Hill Cloten/Dr. Corneilius
John Trigonis     Posthumous
L. Robert Johnson     Philario/Lucius
Freeman Borden       Iachimo
Tiffany Clementi       First Lord/Guiderius
Hannah Wolfe   Second Lord/Arviragus
Clark Williams  French Lord/Belarius
Chance Parker  Pisanio































































































































































































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To see other 2004 Show Pages: Shakespeare's Valentine's, Run for Your Wife, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Coriolanus, Lysistrata, Cymbeline, Gruesome, Gory and Grotesque Tale of Edgar Allan Poe, Othello

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Two courtiers (Hannah Wolfe, left and Tiffany Clementi) of King Cymbeline's court set up the play's story of the orphaned Posthumous Leonatus and his recent marriage to the king's daughter Imogen. Enraged, Cymbeline banishes Posthumous. Pier A Park, Hoboken, NJ
Posthumous (John Trigonis) bids farewell and exchanges with his wife Imogen (Laura Malone) being banished to Rome. Sinatra Park, Hoboken, NJ
The ever watchful wicked queen (Tammy Dalton-Brown), Imogen's stepmother, intervenes in a conversation between Imogen and her trusted servant Pisanio (Chance Parker). The queen seeks to get rid of Pisanio and place her idiot son Cloten on the throne. Long Pond Iron Works State Park, West Milford, NJ
The oafish son of the Queen (Cedric Hill) overhears one of his attendants (Tiffany Climenti) making fun of him and the attendant does serious damage control to throw him off. Stratford Library Amphitheater, Stratford, CT
Posthumous (John Trigonis) arrives in Rome at the home of friend where he meets the slimy Iachimo. Trying to win Posthumous' expensive ring and have some fun, Iachimo (Freeman Borden) wagers that he can bed Posthumous virtuous wife. Posthumous, confident in his wife, accepts the easy wager. Van Vorst Park, Jersey City, NJ
Unable to seduce his way into Imogen's bedroom, Iachimo (Freeman Borden) hides himself in a trunk and when Imogen is asleep steals a bracelet from her as "proof" that he has done the deed. Upon seeing the bracelet, Posthumous disowns Imogen and writes to her servant Pisanio to kill her. Kenilworth Borough Hall, Kenilworth, NJ
King Cymbeline (Tim Baird) is informed by the Roman ambassador that he must pay tribute to Rome or risk an invasion. Above, the Queen (Tammy Dalton-Brown) and her son Cloten (Cedric Hill) advise against it. The Roman army mounts for invasion.
In the forest of Milford Haven, the wrongfully banished Lord Belarius (Clark Williams) has lived with the king's two other children Arviragus (Hannah Wolfe, left) and Guiderius (Tiffany Clementi).  Belarius has raised them as his own but stole the children in infancy to get revenge on the king. Long Pond Iron Works State Park, West Milford, NJ
Imogen after learning that Posthumous has thought her unfaithful decides to seek him in Rome to plead her innocence. Pisanio arranges passage for her but she dresses as a boy to escape. Above, Imogen gets lost in Milford Haven but is found by her long lost siblings Arviragus (Hannah Wolfe, left) and Guiderius (Tiffany Climenti). Shipyard Park, Hoboken, NJ
Cloten (Cedric Hill), having learned of the Imogen's whereabouts and dressing in Posthumous clothes, goes after her but runs into Belarius' family instead.  Here he is challenged to a fight by Guiderius (Tiffany Clementi), but must posture before fighting. Guiderius chops off his head where Cloten is then found by Imogen and thought to be Posthumous. Feeling ill she takes medicines given by her wicked step-mother via Pisanio and is found dead. Long Pond Iron Works State Park, West Milford, NJ
In the final scene of the play loose ends are tied up as Imogen is found to be alive, Iachimo confesses to have made up the story of her infidelity, Belarius reveals the true identity of his children as the kings, Cymbeline makes peace with Rome, Posthumous returns home and is given a blessing of his marriage by the gods and he and Immogen live happily ever after. Shipyard Park, Hoboken, NJ