Originally scheduled to open in early February, the play was delayed due to the omicron surge. The curtain finally rose for preview performances at Playhouse Square’s Allen Theatre on April 30. The show officially opens Thursday and runs through May 22.
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Alexandre Dumas wrote “The Three Musketeers” in 1844. Since then, the swashbuckling tale of mustachioed swordsmen in feathered hats has been told and retold countless times in literature, on stage and on screen.Originally scheduled to open in early February, the play was delayed due to the omicron surge. But following a month of rehearsals, the curtain finally rose for preview performances at Playhouse Square’s Allen Theatre on April 30.
“For me, this is a story about friendship and how we find ourselves by finding our friends and what it means to stand up for other people,” said Kepley. The play is her last as CPH’s artistic director after“It has been an honor,” she said of her tenure at the venerable cultural institution. “Having this play as a beacon on the horizon has gotten me through some of these really difficult pandemic moments and circumstances.
But there was something else besides the movement and physicality of the play that drew her to Bush’s adaptation. “This is casting that opens up the range of possibilities for who gets to play and interpret these roles and then asks that the actors bring their full selves to the roles,” Kepley said “We’re not trying to fit actors into sort of a standard classic white, western sensibility, but we’re allowing people to show up as their full selves and pull the character closer to their own identities.”
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