The Rustic Mechanicals script-in-hand performance series "a Play, a Pie, and a Pint" is all about the synergistic convergence of three of life's most amazing things: pizza, beer, and Shakespeare!

Join us on Friday, April 19 and Saturday, April 20 at Brickside Bar & Grill for William Shakespeare's THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. The doors open at 7p for pies and pints; the play starts at 8p.

All Tickets are $25, which includes the pizza and the play. A cash bar will be on-hand to provide all the beers. Seating is limited and reservations are required!

A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange will: only the man that picks the correct casket out of three (silver, gold, and lead) can marry her. Bassanio, unfortunately, is strapped for cash with which to go wooing, and Antonio wants to help, so Antonio borrows the money from Shylock, the money-lender. But Shylock has been nursing a grudge against Antonio's insults, and makes unusual terms to the loan. And when Antonio's business fails, those terms threaten his life, and it's up to Bassanio and Portia to save him.

Directed and Designed by Jason A Young alongside Dramaturg John S. Shirley and with Production Management from Sarah Young, the Mechanicals featured in this production include John Fallon, Derek Hess, Sarah Beth Ealy, Stephen Phillips, Tracy Nicole Lynch, and more…

Founded by Celi Oliveto in the summer of 2014, The Rustic Mechanicals is the only troupe of actors in the state dedicated to touring the works of William Shakespeare and other classical playwrights.

The Mechanicals now tour five shows annually, including their summer West Virginia Shakespeare in the Park(s) outdoor tour and script-in-hand productions that we call, “a Play, a Pie, and a Pint,” focusing on making Shakespeare’s plays accessible to modern audiences by utilizing dynamic and extreme casting techniques paired with Shakespeare’s staging conditions.

Previous productions include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado about Nothing, Macbeth, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice, Romeo & Juliet, The Merry Wives of Windsor, King Lear, Richard III, The Comedy of Errors, Hamlet, Measure for Measure, As You Like It, Julius Caesar, Titus Andronicus, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Cymbeline, and the original works Timeless Romance and Toil & Trouble.