Social upheaval abounds in The Michigan Shakespeare Festival’s 22nd season, which shifts from Jackson Potter Center to Canton’s Village Theatre on Friday for a three-week run. As is the fest’s tradition, two of the Bard’s best works share the stage with a famous non-Shakespeare play. This year’s offerings are the pastoral comedy “As You Like It,” the historical tragedy “Richard II,” and Karen Tarjan’s “The Killer Angels,” based on the Pulitzer-Prize-winning Civil War novel by Michael Shaara.

Producing artistic director Janice Blixt says the common thread among this year’s plays wasn’t intentional from the outset.

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