Flying Solo With Shakespeare, Roger Rees Performs What You Will in NJ

By Kenneth Jones
November 3, 2009

Tony Award winner Roger Rees brings his one-man show, What You Will, to the McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, NJ, 8 PM Nov. 3.

Described as "a hysterical (and somewhat historical) 90-minute gallop through all things Shakespearean," What You Will was previously presented at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and the Folger Theatre in Washington, DC; and the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, among others places.

In What You Will, McCarter notes state, "Rees presents the greatest soliloquies ever written, along with side-splitting accounts of some of the funniest disasters ever perpetrated on the Shakespearean stage. Romeo, Juliet's foolish Nurse, gory Macbeth, Hamlet, the oh-so-tragic Richard II, and even Charles Dickens, James Thurber, Noel Coward, and Stevie Wonder make appearances."

Roger Rees received a Tony Award for his work in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby; he was also nominated for his performance in Indiscretions. He was also seen on the New York stage in A Man of No Importance, and his other theatre credits include Uncle Vanya, The Rehearsal, The End of the Day, The Uneasy Chair and The Misanthrope. An associate artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company, his work there includes Hamlet, Love's Labours Lost, Cymbeline, Much Ado About Nothing, The Suicide and Nicholas Nickleby. His film and television appearances are numerous.

Tickets, starting at $39, are available by calling the McCarter Theatre Ticket Office at (609) 258-2787, online at www.mccarter.org or in person at 91 University Place, Princeton.