Shawn Says: Puppets, Pride, and Fringe Magic
“a time-traveling love story that gracefully flips between past and present, drawing poignant parallels without ever feeling preachy”
June 5, 2025
“a time-traveling love story that gracefully flips between past and present, drawing poignant parallels without ever feeling preachy”
The production is funny, heartwarming, and richly entertaining. It delivers harsh truths about immigrant experiences. The structure of the play is strong–it allows us to
Director Pugh keeps the focus on the unjustness of the accusations and the mounting tension within the community as they feel increasingly frustrated by a court which seems to be acting without any regard to the greater good of the community.
Cincy Shakes is known for creative reinventions of Shakespeare’s works and this is certainly a creative gamble. I am happy to say that it pays off.
Director Matthew Lewis Johnson transports Shakespeare’s story about 400 years from the 1590’s to the neon-soaked pulse of the 1980’s.