The Serpent Woman

The Theater Program of Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges (Mark Lord,

Chair) presents Carlo Gozzi’s play The Serpent Woman, freely adapted by

James Dobner and directed by Aaron Cromie.

In this funny, fast-paced play, Cherestani and
Farruscad fall in love, and when they wed, Cherestani makes
Farruscad, a mortal king, swear that he will never look into the box
containing the
secret of her fairy origins. When Farruscad eventually succumbs to
his curiosity about the box, Cherestani and his life with her are
ripped
away from him, and her evil fairy sisters make him perform a
torturous—but hilarious—series of tests to earn her back and secure
their future together, including fightinga bull and a giant and
kissing a serpent who turns out to be a magically transformed
Cherestani. But the ultimate tests are still to come, and if Farruscad
at any point curses Cherestani for these hardships, she will once again
be transformed into a serpent and the two will be lost to one another
forever.

Tickets for THE SERPENT WOMAN are free and open to the public. Reservations can be made online, via email, by phone at (610) 526-5210, or in person at the Bryn Mawr Office for the Arts (Goodhart Hall).

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Performance Schedule:

Friday, April 11, 7:30pm - Opening Night
Saturday, April 12, 7:30pm
Sunday, April 13, 7:30pm
Thursday, April 17, 7:30pm
Friday, April 18, 7:00pm
Saturday, April 19, 7:30pm