Toil and Trouble
- Full Length Play, Dark Comedy, Contemporary
- 2M, 1F
- ISBN: PS2560
"Gunderson makes a strong case that hubris, greed, lust for power, and just plain lust never go out of style."
Cincinnati Enquirer
Description
- Full Length Play
- Dark Comedy
- 90 minutes
- Time Period: Contemporary
- Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
- Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set
- Cautions: Strong Language
- Performance Group:
- College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
This hilarious adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth pits friend against friend, ambition against fate, pet-sitting against miniature vicuna mogul-dom.
This is the second play in the Shakespeare Cycle, a series of contemporary comedies based on Shakespeare's plays. See Exit, Pursued by a Bear and The Taming for the other plays in this series.
REVIEWS:
"An uproarious, modern-day comedy."
The Daily Californian
"Toil and Trouble is laugh-out-loud weird."
The Daily Californian
"Gunderson makes a strong case that hubris, greed, lust for power, and just plain lust never go out of style."
Cincinnati Enquirer
"Local playwright Lauren Gunderson has a knack for making the problems of flibbergibbets looks both loathsomely silly and cosmically weighty."
San Francisco Weekly
Characters
- Casting: 2M, 1F
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Underemployed friends Adam, Matt and Beth are desperate to beat the recession any way they can -- like combining forces to take over a small island in South America. But when a fortune cookie tells Matt that he will rule and Beth gets a little too handy with a dagger, plans go awry. |
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