Apocryphal Shakespeare Company of Haddonfield: Faire Em

The Apocryphal Shakespeare Company, in conjunction with the Mabel Kay Senior Center and the Haddonfield Public Library, proudly presents a dramatic staged reading of: Faire Em 

The performance will be held at the Mabel Kay Senior Center.  Admission is free, but registration is required.  

Faire Em is actually two comedies in one.  In the first story William the Conqueror attempts to steal his best friend’s fiancé, Mariana.  Moreover, he expects his friend to help him do it!  But Mariana outwits them both and stays true to her man.  In the second story, Fair Em is courted by four different men.  She remains true to her first love, Manvile, and pretends to be deaf and blind to discourage the other suitors.  Unfortunately, Manvile is also fooled and dumps Em to run off with a rich girl from the next town.  Both plots play in alternating scenes until in Act V all the characters confront each other and the question of “true love” together.  In both story lines we find that (as in real life) women are strong, intelligent, resourceful, loving, constant beings; while men are shallow, self-centered, sexist, idiots.