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Article: ENTIRE CAST SIZZLES IN APT'S CYMBELINE'.(LIFESTYLE)
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- The Capital Times
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- August 16, 2004
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Byline: Michael Muckian Special to The Capital Times\The writer retains the copyright for this article
SPRING GREEN -- Toward his career's end, it seems, even William Shakespeare had begun to run out of new ideas.
But the bard's pen never faltered, and many of his best devices turn up in "Cymbeline," one of Shakespeare's last plays and the closing production for American Players Theatre's 25th season. The performance opened to nearly a full house on a chilly Saturday evening that the playwright filled with ghosts, gods, wooers and warriors.
By another's hand, the rarely produced "Cymbeline" might have devolved into a pastiche parodying ...