Shakespeare's Dead Dames
- Short Play, Comedy
- 6F, 1M or F
- ISBN: TRW-13073
After their in-performance deaths, six female Shakespearean characters find themselves in a holding area until the play they are a character in gets revived by another Shakespeare company so that they can (re)live their tragedy over (and over) again.
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Description
- Short Play
- Comedy
- 40 minutes
- Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
- Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set
- Performance Group:
- High School/Secondary, College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups
After their in-performance deaths, six female Shakespearean characters find themselves in a holding area until the play they are a character in gets revived by another Shakespeare company so that they can (re)live their tragedy over (and over) again.
It’s a comic romp that evokes Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit meets Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author meets Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
It’s a comic romp that evokes Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit meets Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author meets Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
Characters
- Casting: 6F, 1M or F
- Casting Attributes: Flexible casting
JOAN - From the play Henry VI, pt. 1. Resolute. Speaks in French and English. Covered in black ash because she was burned at the stake.
JULIET From the play Romeo and Juliet. Melodramatic. Has a dagger between her breasts.
LADY MACBETH - From the play Macbeth. Paranoid. Bruises on her face because of her suicide.
OPHELIA - From the play Hamlet. Unhinged. Singer. Soaking wet because she drowned in a nearby river.
CLEOPATRA - From the play Antony and Cleopatra. Haughty and sensual. Has snakes draped around her neck because she placed them there as a method of suicide.
DIRECTOR - Affected, British accent. Any gender. Pretentious and lofty.
