When:September 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, and 13 at 8 p.m. and September 7 at 2 p.m
Where: Mason Gross Performing Arts Center, 85 George Street, New Brunswick
Cost: $15

As the kick-off event for the Rutgers Theater Company’s 2008-2009 season, the BFA senior company, fresh from their junior year at Shakespeare’s Globe in London, will present “Cymbeline,” one of the more dynamic and complex of the Bard’s works starting on Friday, September 5. Originally directed by the Globe’s Mike Alfreds, the work is being restaged by Barbara Marchant and Kevin Kittle.

Mistaken identities, banishments and imagined infidelities are just the starting point for this rich Shakespearean feast, which combines tragic, comic and late romantic elements. You may have loved and lost, but have you ever done it in Wales? Unique and striking yet comfortable and familiar, “Cymbeline” is one of Shakespeare’s most intriguing and vibrant plays.

In this workshop performance, developed over five months of their program of study at Shakespeare’s Globe, each of the actors in the production will play portions of a few roles, providing them with an opportunity to stretch their acting skills. A new “theater within a theater” configuration has been specially developed for the workshop. Elements of the architecture of Shakespeare’s Globe are incorporated into an intimate onstage playing space in New Theater that recreates the Globe’s intimacy between the players and the audience.

“Cymbeline” runs Friday, September 5 through Saturday, September 13. Performances are Tickets are $15 for the general public and $10 for all students with valid ID. New Theater is in the Mason Gross Performing Arts Center, 85 George Street (between Route 18 and Ryders Lane), on the Douglass Campus of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in New Brunswick, New Jersey. For tickets and information, call the Mason Gross Performing Arts Center ticket office at 732-932-7511.

For more information on any Mason Gross event, visit www.masongross.rutgers.edu or call the Mason Gross Performing Arts Center ticket office at 732-932-7511.