Anne Page Hates Fun
Synopsis & Character Breakdown
Anne Page didn’t always hate fun. Now unsmiling and unmarried, Anne, her seriously ill friend, her foreign exchange student, and her neighbors in Windsor, New Hampshire protest marriage, risk their hearts, confront loss, and celebrate life. Romance, humor, and a loving portrait of contemporary small town life blend in this new play inspired by Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor.
6W - 6M
Production History & HONORS
Nominated for the 2020 Primus Prize
American Shakespeare Center 2019
Directed by STEPHANIE HOLLADAY EARL
Companion play to THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
Sponsored by DR. SHERRY WOOD SHUMAN
Winner of 2018 - Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries Prize
Press
“Anne Page Hates Fun is high-quality work, better than most new plays I've seen this decade.” -Eric Minton - Shakespeareances.com
“Amy E. Witting's Anne Page Hates Fun won the first of 38 playwriting contests in the American Shakespeare Center's ambitious Shakespeare's New Contemporaries initiative to pair each William Shakespeare play with a new piece inspired by that play.” -Eric Minton - Shakespeareances.com
“Witting has given us a cleverly comical and richly insightful portrayal of small-town America, death and living, women's empowerment, and flamingoes.” -Eric Minton - Shakespeareances.com
“Witting’s Anne Page, who determines she must hide her victimization from even her closest friends, makes us consider what a predator’s exposure may cost his victim.” - Pamela Royston Macfie, The Sewanee Review
