Much Ado About a Handkerchief at Lumos Wine Co

Merely Players Presents: Much Ado About a Handkerchief

There's no such thing as a "new" Shakespeare play... or is there? 

Experience Shakespeare's beloved comedy Much Ado About Nothing in a way you've never seen before, in this original Merely Players mashup of Much Ado and Othello. Much Ado famously teeters right on the edge of disaster before pulling everyone back from the brink to celebrate a (mostly) happy ending of reconciliation and rekindled love. By contrast, Much Ado About a Handkerchief lets the jealous obsessions of the play travel to their natural conclusion: destruction and untimely death. 

It's not QUITE a new play. But it's Shakespeare's very old words used in a very new way. So we ask you: what if Much Ado was a tragedy? Well, here's how you find out

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Lumos Winery, Philomath, Oregon - Lumos' tasting room, a renovated barn that used to be part of a dude ranch, sits behind beautiful lavendar fields, by Reed Lane Photography
Starts: August 09, 2026

Times: 5pm-7:30pm

Admission: $15-$17

Location: Lumos Wine Co
24000 Cardwell Hill Dr , Philomath, OR 97370

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Produced By: Merely Players

Contact Person:: Rachel Kohler

merelyplayersoregon@gmail.com

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