All's Well That Ends Well

All's Well That Ends Well joined New Swan Shakespeare Festival's 2025 repertory season as a Romantic-era reading of Shakespeare's uneasy comedy, directed by Rob Salas. The production follows Helena's pursuit of Bertram through questions of class, desire, obligation, deception, and courage, making the story less a simple romance than a theatrical argument about how far someone can move through a world determined to keep rank and feeling in separate rooms.

For Brandon PT Davis's scenic design, the New Swan stage became a place of reveal and transformation rather than fixed architecture. Drapery, heraldic signage, warm stucco texture, and operatic transitions allowed the production to move between the ceremonial restraint of Roussillon and the more open, volatile world of Florence. As an archive event, this page records the production context while the full portfolio entry carries the visual documentation, including production photography and the design notes behind the scenic system.