Cymbeline

Four trees were nestled atop a grassy mound, a circular sand pit took center stage and a moat of water surrounded most of the outer perimeter of the stage just in front of the audience. Cymbeline challenges director and cast to tell a convoluted story of "deceit, murder, abandonment, and cross dressing" (as the production's poster suggests) and employs two dozen revelations to tie up the loose ends of three different plots: a king (Cymbeline) banishes his daughter's husband (Posthumus) at the insistence of his wife; the husband's faith in his wife (Imogen) is tested as is her faith in him; and a war breaks out between Britain and Rome, the result of which is the king's discovery of two lost sons, kidnapped in infancy.