WRITTEN BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

DIRECTED BY ADAM MARPLE

JULY 1-24, 2010

DIRECTING THESIS | EAST 13TH STREET THEATER

A CO-PRODUCTION OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS THEATRE PROGRAM AND WIDE-EYED PRODUCTIONS

The War of the Roses rolls on. In the middle of this bloody maelstrom are two men with the forward momentum to take their country in wildly divergent directions. As one ascends to a higher state of existence no longer needing the trappings of a crown, the other descends to a dark and dangerous place where the crown is all that is visible in his sights.