Helena is gifted, kind and in love. In love with a man who does not love her in return. When he is forced to marry her against his will, he volunteers to fight in a distant war, desperate to experience life, rather than be tied to a devoted wife.
Heartbroken that her love has forced him to join the war, Helena turns her back on the world until years later fate throws them together again. Deciding she must take action, a game of mistaken identity unfolds as Helena finally sees a path to happiness in Shakespeare's comic and touching romance.
Nancy Meckler directs following her 2011 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream and 2012's The Heresy of Love.