About the artist

Half-Baked Theater Co. is a collective of actors, writers, clowns and commedianti based in the greater New England Area. elevating textually dense plays through physical theater techniques, eliminating unnecessary artifice between body and words. Their members have trained and performed both internationally at institutions like RADA, LAMDA, Academia Dell’Arte, Prague Shakespeare Company, and Teatro Lunaria’s Festival in una notte d’estate and locally at the Boston University School of Theater. Half-Baked is enthusiastically committed to sharing the joy of challenging texts with audiences, presenting accessible, actor-led productions that provoke revelatory examination of the human condition.

What you will

Half x baked theater collective

SOCIAL MEDIA:
Instagram: @hxbtheater
Website: ​halfxbakedtheatercollective.com

CATEGORY:
​Theater

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DESCRIPTION OF PIECE:

What You Will takes Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and cheekily breaks it to bits, utilizing dance, live music, and traditional clowning techniques to adapt the classic story of shipwrecks, gender, drunkenness, and deceit with Half-Baked’s signature kinetic, open style — all in 50 minutes! We take our Comedy seriously, and What You Will shall do it’s best to please by bringing out the subversive elements that made Viola, Olivia, Sir Toby and The Gang some of the most iconic characters in the English cannon. Featuring a diverse cast of artists from across the country, this production’s stripped-back, earnest realization of the play’s core character, themes, and purpose will bring the humor and poignant romance of Shakespeare’s text to life. Join us for an evening of irreverent joy for everyone. Shout “HOB-NOB” and get ready to laugh your butt off at Half-Baked’s premiere of What You Will — we’re excited to see you there!​