A Shakespeare tale of old, redone with a few sharp twists, “All’s Well That Ends Well” opens at Chicago Shakespeare Theater with lovesick confession:
Lovely Helen’s father, a brilliant physician who taught her his secrets, has recently died. And now Helen’s guardian, the Countess of Rossillion, has lost her own husband, with a burial underway. Yet Helen reveals that for all this tragedy, she’s most obsessively concerned about what’s to come next: Her heartthrob Bertram, son of the dead Rossillion, will now be packed off to Paris to undergo tutelage of the King. Bertram will be in the royal orbit, and she will be out of it entirely.
