Oct. 4-13

Alley Theater
1205 E. Washington St. • 713-6178
lookingforlilith.org
$15-$18; 7:30 p.m. (plus 2 p.m. Oct. 13)

In their first full Shakespearean production, Looking for Lilith Theatre Company flips the all-male Elizabethan stage tradition by casting all women. “Much of the banter between Beatrice and Benedick revolves around not only their wit but also society’s expectations of what the roles of men and women should be,” director Kathi E.B. Ellis says. “This dynamic also includes the more conventional relationship between Hero and Claudio — and how that destructs when male-female expectations are abrogated, albeit through trickery.” They mix it up even further by setting the play post World War I, a huge time of change for women in America. In the LFL tradition of “re-examining history through women’s perspectives,” they’re covering a lot of ground with this one. —Jane Mattingly