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TheaterReview 🎭 Midsommer Flight’s Cymbeline is pleasant nonsense. | ✍️ Dmitry Samarov

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For Midsommer Flight’s tenth annual production of free Shakespeare in Chicago’s parks, the company has chosen as shaggy a dog story as the Bard had in his quiver. In ancient Britain, Princess Imogen secretly weds Posthumus to get out of marrying her stepmother’s odious son, Cloten. What follows includes alleged adultery, gender-switching disguise, long-thought-dead princes reappearing, a beheading, magical potions, and much, much politicking.

The ridiculous twists and turns of a story like this were long ago co-opted by daytime TV, then prestige streamers, but watching enthusiastic young people run around swinging swords in a city park is much more satisfying than bingeing yet another piece of recycled intellectual property. As a character remarks near the happily-ever-after conclusion, “Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.” I can’t imagine summer crowds having a bad time taking in this pleasant nonsense.

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