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Water Music

  • Tina Howe
  • Short Play, Comedy, Contemporary
  • 1M, 2F
  • ISBN: 9780573696763

Ophelia unexpectedly pops up in the whirlpool of a health club after having drowned in Hamlet, creating havoc for the lifeguard and a retired school teacher.

  • Short Play
  • Comedy
  • 30 minutes

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student
Ophelia unexpectedly pops up in the whirlpool of a health club after having drowned in Hamlet, creating havoc for the lifeguard and a retired school teacher. Set in the pool area of a health club.

A part of the collection Shrinking Violets and Towering Tiger Lilies.

Premiere Production: Water Music premiered at the Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York City in 2003 under the direction of Pam McKinnon.
  • Casting: 1M, 2F

  • ROZ - a high school English teacher, 50s-60s
    JESUS - the sexy Latino lifeguard, 30s
    OPHELIA - Polonius' mad daughter from Hamlet, 20s